Down 6-5 after five innings, the Wright State baseball team exploded for 11 runs the rest of the way, including seven in the eighth and ninth, to post a 16-9 win over the Le Moyne Dolphins Saturday afternoon in Syracuse, New York.

A two-run homer to center off the bat of Jake Hibberd, his fourth of the season, gave the Raiders the quick lead and the margin grew to 5-0 as Zach Tanner smacked a solo homer in the second, his second of the year, and WSU scored two unearned runs in the third.

It stayed that way until Le Moyne scored six runs in the bottom of the fifth, two coming on a Matt Marra single and two more on a home run by Don Schaaf.

Wright State, though, answered right back with four in the top of the sixth. After Ryan Ashe and Justin Kopale had hits, Sam Picchiotti drove in Ashe with a single through the right side and two more came in on a Hibberd infield hit. Another Dolphin miscue resulted in the final run.

Le Moyne closed the gap to 9-8 with two in the sixth, only to see the Raiders break the game open with four in the eighth. Tristan Moore doubled in the first run and he scored as Corey Davis hit his fourth round-tripper of the season to right center.

WSU used the long ball in tacking on three more in the ninth as Moore clubbed a solo homer to center, his third of the year, and Kyle Mossbarger later had a two-run shot, his first of 2011.

Wright State has now hit 12 home runs in the first two games of the series after having just five through the first 25 games of the season.

Mossbarger finished with four hits and three RBI to pace the Raider offense while Hibberd had three hits and drove in four. Moore, Tanner and Kopale also had two hits and Dan Marsh scored four times.

Michael Meintel (2-0) recorded the final out of the fifth to record the victory. After the WSU relief corps allowed just a run on three hits with six strikeouts on Friday, Meintel, Taylor Braun, Jordan Marker and Michael Schum limited Le Moyne Saturday to three hits and one earned run over the last 4.1 innings with four strikeouts.

Wright State (18-9), winners of six straight and eight of its last nine, wraps up the series with a single game Sunday morning at 11:00.