Wright State heads to Western Kentucky

THE SERIES
Teams: Wright State (1-3, 0-0 HL)
Western Kentucky (3-1, 0-0 CUSA)
Location: Nick Denes Field / Bowling Green, KY

The Wright State baseball team continues its season-opening road swing with a three-game series at Western Kentucky this weekend, with a 4 p.m. game to start the weekend on Friday afternoon before back-to-back 2 p.m. first pitches on Saturday and Sunday.

Fans can follow the action with live stats each day. All links are available on the team's schedule page.

Probable Starters
Friday:
WSU: Daniel Kreuzer, RHP, RJr.
WKU: Michael Darrell-Hicks, RHP, RJr.

Saturday:
WSU: Bradley Brehmer, RHP, So.
WKU: Sean Bergeron, RHP, Jr.

Sunday:
WSU: Austin Cline, RHP, RSr.
WKU: Aristotle Peter, RHP, Jr.

LAST TIME OUT
Wright State scored four runs over the first two innings on Wednesday afternoon to jump out to an early lead it would never surrender as the Raiders took down No. 1 Louisville 10-3 at Jim Patterson Stadium for their first win of the young season. Four Wright State pitchers combined to surrender the five hits, as starter Sam Wirsing tossed four innings and struck out two while allowing four hits, three walks and a pair of Louisville runs. Bradley Deboutte was the first arm out of the bullpen, sitting down the first six batters he faced before allowing one run on one hit and a walk over 2.2 innings of work as he earned the win.

DOWN GOES NO. 1
The Raiders' Wednesday victory over Louisville was the third in program history over a team ranked No. 1 in at least one of the national polls, joining back-to-back wins over top-ranked teams in 2009 and 2010. The Raiders took down then-No. 1 Georgia by an 8-5 score in March 2009 before Wright State downed then-No. 1 Virginia 2-1 in March of 2010. All three victories over No. 1-ranked teams have come on the road for Wright State. Wins against ranked opponents are nothing new for the Raiders, who took down then-No. 9 East Carolina, then-No. 10 Ole Miss and then-No. 19 Oklahoma State – all on the road – last season.

Louisville, who dropped two of three to open its season at Ole Miss, held onto the top spot in the Perfect Game rankings this week while sliding from No. 1 to third in the D1Baseball poll and fourth in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper rankings, while moving from No. 2 to sixth in Baseball America's top 25 and eighth in the NCBWA poll.

ROAD TRIP
Wright State begins the 2020 season with its first 14 contests on the road, a common theme for teams from the northern states. The Raiders will travel to take on three SEC foes in weekend series (Mississippi State, Auburn, Tennessee), play a midweek contest with Louisville out of the ACC, and travel to play at Western Kentucky, along with a short trip to take on in-state foe Miami (OH), before its first scheduled home game on March 10. The Raiders were 14-10 on the road last season, playing their first eight games on the road and tallying a 4-4 mark in that first swing – including wins at then-No. 9 East Carolina, then-No. 10 Ole Miss and then-No. 19 Oklahoma State.

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Players Mentioned

Bradley Brehmer

Austin Cline

Bradley Deboutte

Daniel Kreuzer

Sam Wirsing

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