The Wright State baseball team tallied 12 unanswered runs to come from behind for a 12-6 victory in game one of a double-header at Cleveland State on Saturday. The Raiders fell behind 6-0, but sent 12 batters to the plate in a seven run, fifth inning and Newhart came on to toss the final five frames to pick up his first career save.

Cleveland State jumped out to an early 2-0 advantage after two innings against Wright State starting pitcher Travis LaMar. Josh Hungerman plated the first run with a single in the opening frame and Tom Carter hit a sacrifice fly in the second inning to stake the home team to the early lead.

LaMar couldn't get out of the third inning as he recorded a pair of outs, leaving with the bases loaded after walking two and hitting a batter. Lee Valencheck came on and coxed a ground out from Josh Federico to stifle the rally and hold the CSU lead to 2-0 heading to the fourth.

The lead grew to 6-0 in the fourth inning as CSU touched up Valencheck for a pair of home runs – one sole and one three-run homer, before the Raiders offense would exploded for seven runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth to jump out to an 11-6 lead.

In the fifth, Quentin Cate started the inning with his 10th home run of the season to left-center field and Kory Twede homered one batter later to account for the first two runs of the contest for WSU. Aaron Fields drove in the third run of the frame with a single. After an R.J. Gundolff single loaded the bases, Jeff Mercer drove in two runs with a single of his own and a balk brought home the tying run later in the frame. Casey McGrew brought in the go ahead run with a single later in the frame and WSU led 7-6 after sending 12 batters to the plate.

In the Raiders half of the sixth, the long ball added a few more runs to the Raiders total when Fields smacked his second homer of the season with Hibberd on second. McGrew added his fifth home run of the season – a two-run shot – later in the inning and WSU led 11-6 heading to the home half of the frame.

Fields added his fourth RBI of the game with a double in the ninth inning and Tyler Newhart tossed the final five innings for the Raiders to claim his first career save.

Valencheck tossed 1.1 innings and allowed four runs on two hits with a strikeout to pick up his first career victory, thanks to the seven-run fifth by his offensive unit. Newhart replaced Valencheck in the fifth and went on to close out the contest with five innings of three hit baseball. The freshman fanned six and didn't walk a batter in the scoreless outing.

In the game, all ten WSU players that played collected hits and five different players accounted for RBI's as the Raiders scored 10+ runs for the third straight contest. Fields went four-for-six and drove in four runs, while McGrew collected three RBI's and Mercer plated a pair of runs. Hibberd scored three times, while Gundolff and Fields each crossed the plate twice.