The Wright State baseball team split a doubleheader with Michigan State Sunday at Vanderbilt's Hawkins Field in Nashville, the Raiders taking the opener 7-1 while the Spartans held on for a 2-1 decision in the nightcap.

Game one was scoreless until WSU tallied four runs in the third.  After walks to Jeff Limbaugh and Mark Fowler started the inning, Kieston Greene doubled to left to drive in Limbaugh with the first run.  Andrew McCafferty followed with a hit to right to plate Fowler and Michael Timm knocked in Greene with a squeeze bunt to make it 3-0. 

A Michigan State error put runners on the corners and Wright State squeezed in its second run of the frame as Joe Ford drove in McCafferty with the fourth run.

The Spartans scored a run in the seventh, but Raider starter Joey Hoelzel pitched out of a two-on, no-out situation to keep the lead at three.

WSU then broke the game open with three in the top of the eighth.  A Timm single and a John Brodner double produced the first run with the other two runs coming as Fowler was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Greene reaching on an infield chopper to third.

Hoelzel pitched 7.2 innings in picking up the win, allowing just four hits and no walks while striking out three while Taylor Braun went the final 1.1 innings, fanning one.

Offensively, Greene had two hits and two RBI to pace the Raider attack with Brodner also had two hits.

In the second game, Michigan State scored a run in the second and added another in the sixth to build a 2-0 lead. 

Wright State cut the deficit in half on back-to-back one-out doubles by Greene and Ford and had two runners in scoring position later that inning on another double, this time by McCafferty, but could not push the tying run across.

Greene added two more hits to give him four for the twinbill while Sean Murphy also had two hits.  Robby Sexton was the tough-luck loser, giving up the two runs in 5.1 innings with three strikeouts, while the bullpen of Jack Van Horn, E.J. Trapino and Andrew Elliott threw 2.2 innings of scoreless relief with two strikeouts.

Wright State (1-2) heads to California next weekend for three games, taking on UC Irvine on Friday, February 21, at 9:30 Eastern followed by Long Beach State on Saturday, February 22, at 5:00 Dayton time and Arizona State at Long Beach State on Sunday, February 23, at 4:00 Eastern.