The Wright State baseball team was held to two hits over the first seven innings by No. 9 Mississippi State on Saturday, as the Raiders fell to the Bulldogs 6-2.
 
The series wraps up on Sunday afternoon at Dudy Noble Field with first pitch scheduled for 2 p.m.
 
Mississippi State plated three runs in the bottom of the first inning, and that would prove to be more than enough for starting pitcher Christian MacLeod, who allowed one hit while striking out 11 Raider batters over five innings of work.
 
The hosts added a single run in the second inning and two more in the fourth frame and held on to a six-run lead until the eighth, when Wright State strung together baserunners, beginning with Alec Sayre's one out walk. Sayre's advanced to second on a wild pitch and then came home moments later on Damon Dues' RBI single into center field. Two batters later, Dues scored on Tyler Black's RBI double to left center field before a flyout ended the inning and the offensive push.
 
The Raiders' previous baserunners prior to the eighth inning came in the second on a Gehrig Anglin walk, Cameron Rountree's leadoff double in the third, Black reaching on an error in the fourth and a Sayre single in the sixth.
 
Wright State starter Bradley Brehmer was saddled with the loss, allowing six runs on nine hits in five innings, while the bullpen trio of Bradley Deboutte, Brock Nartker and Riley Perlich combined for three scoreless frames with five total strikeouts and four hits allowed.
 
The Raiders found success in the late innings off of Mississippi State reliever Will Bednar, who allowed three hits – two of them in the eighth – and two runs over three innings out of the bullpen. The Bulldog offense tallied 13 hits on the afternoon, paced by a three-hit game from Logan Tanner and two hits each from Jordan Westburg and Kamren James.