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Wright State split a pair of games Thursday in the second day of the Horizon League Tournament at the WSU Softball Field, rallying for a 6-5 win over Cleveland State before seeing its season end with a 3-0 setback to UIC.

The Raiders tallied a run against CSU in the first as Jess Gorman singled, went to third on a Reagan Stofcheck bunt and a wild pitch, and scored on a Taylor Knore sacrifice fly.  The Vikings, however, answered in a big way in the second, sending nine batters to the plate in scoring five runs.

An Angie Clark sacrifice fly started WSU on its comeback in the second and Wright State cut the deficit to 5-4 an inning later as Libby Pfeffer led off with a hit to right center and Knore followed with the first home run of her collegiate career, a two-run shot to straight away center.

The Raiders then took the lead for good with two more in the fourth.  After Gorman advanced to third on an infield hit, an error and a passed ball, Stofcheck drove her in with a double to left center.  Pfeffer followed with a single to center to plate Stofcheck with what turned out to be the winning run.

Cleveland State nearly tied it in the sixth, but pitcher Krystian DeWitt, who was covering the plate after a single and a wild throw, took a throw from catcher Kortney Tackett to retired the would-be tying run and end the inning.

DeWitt picked up the win by throwing five shutout innings, scattering four hits while striking out four.  Offensively, Gorman went a perfect four for four with two runs scored while Knore drove in three and Pfeffer and Tackett each had two hits.

It took just one pitch for the Raiders to fall behind against UIC as Natalie Hernandez smacked the first pitch of the game over the fence in left center for a solo home run and a 1-0 Flames lead.  DeWitt, though, was dominant for the next five innings after that, allowing just a walk in the fifth which was erased on a double play, striking out five.

DeWitt escaped a bases-loaded threat in the sixth with another double play, but could not pitch out of the jam in the seventh as UIC scored two runs with two outs.

Wright State ends the season with a final mark of 19-32.