The Wright State baseball team was held to just four hits for the second straight day as the Raiders fell 5-1 on the road against No. 9 Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon.
 
Mississippi State did all of its damage in the first three innings, posting two runs in the bottom of the first and three more in the third frame. The Raiders got on the board with a run in the fifth, but their lone hit after that was erased moments later on a ground ball double play in the seventh.
 
Wright State starter Austin Cline took the loss, allowing five runs with three strikeouts in three innings of work. Four Raiders combined to hold Mississippi State to just one hit over the final five frames, as Julian Greenwell struck out two of the three batters he faced, Jay Luikart pitched a scoreless frame, Jake Schrand tossed 2.2 innings and Henry Von Hollen recorded the final out of the eighth against his only batter faced.
 
Offensively, Damon Dues and Quincy Hamilton each had one hit at the top of the lineup for the Raiders, as Dues also drew two walks and Hamilton had a walk of his own. Justin McConnell and Greenwell had the other two hits for the Raiders. Wright State's run in the fifth came when Dues tripled to center field with one out in the frame and scored moments later on Hamilton's RBI groundout.
 
Mississippi State plated a pair of runs in the first via a sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout, then added to the lead with a pair of run producing singles as part of a three-hit inning in the third.
 
Starter Eric Cerantola earned the win for Mississippi State after four innings of work with eight strikeouts before five Bulldog relievers each tossed an inning out of the bullpen to end the series.
 
Wright State next plays on Wednesday afternoon, as the Raiders make the two-and-a-half-hour trip south to take on Louisville in midweek action.