The Wright State baseball team collected a pair of victories against Cleveland State on Saturday afternoon at Pipe Yard Stadium. The Raiders posted an 8-1 victory in game one behind a solid pitching performance from Kyle Kearcher and then exploded for a 15-4 victory in the nightcap.

The Raiders struck first in game one as Dan Biedenharn picked up his 17th sacrifice of the season, moving Oeder to second, and a Josh Hungerman wild pitch moved him to third. Jeremy Hamilton then drove in his 47th RBI of the season with a groundout to the first baseman to give WSU a 1-0 lead.

The Raiders struck with a single run in the fifth inning as Jeremy Hamilton led the inning off with a single to right field. Kris Steffen to push WSU to a 3-0 lead.

Steffen added to his RBI total in the fifth inning with a single through the left side of the infield with the bases loaded. Steffen plated two runs with the base hit and pushed the WSU to 5-0.

The Vikings tallied their first run of game one in their half of the fifth inning as they stringed together three singles to push the first run across the plate.

Mote added to the Raiders lead with an RBI single in the seventh and Shoup drove in two runs in the eighth inning to push WSU lead to 8-1. In the eighth inning, Biedenharn extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a single.

Kearcher threw eight innings and allowed only one run in the contest to improve to 8-4 overall in 2007. Kearcher, who improves to 6-2 in league play, struck out seven batters and allowed ten hits in the game one victory.

In game one, the Raiders pounded out 15 hits and eight of the nine WSU starters collected at least one hit. Steffen and Mote each posted three hits in the contest, with Steffen recording three RBI's for the second straight contest. Oeder, Parker and Ogrinc each posted two hits in the game and Shoup knocked in two RBI's in game one.

The Raiders jumped on top in the first inning of game two, as Oeder reaching via a hit-by-pitch and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Biedenharn. Oeder scored for the 67th time in 2007 on an RBI single from Jeremy Hamilton. Parker then reached on a fielding error by the CSU third baseman, allowing Hamilton to score, and moved to second on the error. Steffen then drove in the final run of the inning with a single to right field.

CSU tallied a pair of runs in their half of the first inning as three Raider errors allowed the two unearned runs. Cleveland State collected two hits in the inning off of WSU starter Garret Holleran.

The Green and Gold added a run in the second inning, again benefiting from a CSU error, as Mote led off the inning with a double and scored on a misplayed Kopilchack bunt. Two runs in the third inning extended WSU's lead to 6-2, with only two runs being earned.

CSU added a run in their half of the third inning after a Rich Ranells triple right center and a groundout by Ryan Baechel.

In the fourth, Oeder tripled to leadoff the inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by Biedenharn. The Raiders added two more runs thanks to an error by CSU's first baseman to push their lead to 9-3.

In the fifth, the Raiders continued their scoring spree with three more runs on four hits in the frame. Oeder tallied his third run of the contest in the inning and broke the single-season runs scored record. It was the 69th run of the season for the senior and broke T.D. Hicks' record of 68 set in 1997.

Two more Vikings errors allowed a pair of runs to score in the seventh inning for Wright State. Hamilton plated both runs in the inning to push his league leading total to 51 RBI's on the season and extend WSU's lead to 14-4.

Holleran was relieved by Nate Stevens to start the seventh inning. Holleran threw six innings and allowed four runs (one earned) and struck out seven batters to improve to 4-5 on the season.

The Green and Gold tacked on a run in the eighth inning on an RBI single from Nick Mahon, capping the scoring at 15-4.

Stevens, Ross Vagedes and Jason Bennion each threw a scoreless inning to finish the game for WSU. Stevens and Vagedes each recorded one strikeout in their appearance.

In game two, nine different Raiders collected hits and nine players scored runs. Hamilton was three-for-five with four RBI's and Oeder scored three times, collecting two hits. Biedenharn tied the single-season record for sacrifice hits with his 18th sac bunt in the first inning and extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a single in the ninth inning.

The Raiders improve to 32-18 with the twinbill sweep of CSU and are now 19-8 in Horizon League play. The 19 league victories are the most in WSU program history and the 32 wins match the 2006 total for the Raiders. The next action for the Green and Gold will be on Tuesday, May 15, at Central Michigan starting at 3:30.