The Wright State baseball team Friday clinched the Horizon League regular season title and the top seed for next week's Horizon League Tournament with a doubleheader split against Butler in the regular-season finale for both teams. The Raiders won the opener 17-5 while the Bulldogs took the nightcap 15-4.

WSU scored in each of the first six innings in game one, starting with a two-run Tristan Moore double in the first. A Kody Krizman ground out produced a run in the second, Zach Tanner doubled in a run in the third and Ryan Ashe smacked a solo home run to right center in the fourth, his first of the season, to make it 5-0.

Butler scored two in the fifth, only to see the Raiders break the game with eight in its half of the inning. Jake Hibberd's ninth home run of the year, a two-run shot to left, opened the scoring and Sam Picchiotti later had a two-run single.

A RBI hit by Kyle Mossbarger in the sixth extended the lead to 14-2 and WSU tacked on three more in the eighth as Andrew Elliott walked with the bases loaded and Hibberd doubled in a run.

The regular-season title is the second straight for Wright State and the sixth such crown in program history (1992, 1993, 1994 in the Mid-Continent Conference and 1997 in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference).

Ashe finished just a double short of being the second Raider in as many days to hit for the cycle as he went four-for-four with five runs scored and two RBI. Tanner added four hits and three RBI and Hibberd had three hits and four RBI. On the mound, Jordan Marker (1-2) picked up the win with 2.1 innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit with two strikeouts.

In the second game, Butler (23-26-1, 11-14-1 Horizon) took control early by scoring six times in the first, three coming on a home run to left off the bat of Corey Moylan. The Bulldogs added one in the third and then broke it open with three in the sixth and five in the seventh.

Hibberd had two hits and three RBI in the second game while Picchiotti had three hits and Tanner and Krizman two.

Wright State (33-17, 16-7 Horizon) opens Horizon League Tournament play on Thursday, May 26, as the Raiders face the lower seeded winner from Wednesday's games (Valparaiso, Butler or Youngstown State). Game time is 7:00 at Nischwitz Stadium.