The Wright State baseball team received another stellar pitching performance and a couple big hits on Sunday afternoon as the Raiders wrapped up a four-game weekend sweep over Youngstown State with a 6-1 victory at Nischwitz Stadium.
 
Starter Austin Cline struck out 11 batters over seven innings for the Raiders (8-5, 8-0 HL) who have now swept both of their first two Horizon League series. Youngstown State (5-11, 3-5 HL) tallied the first run of the afternoon, but it was all Wright State from there, including a pair of homers from Tyler Black.
 
Black finishes the weekend with a pair of two home run games and drove in eight RBI over the four-game set.
 
Youngstown State found the scoreboard in the second inning thanks to a two-out hit and Raider throwing error, coupled with an RBI single, to take the early lead, but Wright State answered right back in the third frame. Julian Greenwell tripled to open the inning before Damon Dues brought him home moments later with a sacrifice fly to tie the game. Later in the inning, Quincy Hamilton walked and advanced around the bases before crossing the plate on Sammy Sass' sacrifice fly.
 
The Raiders busted the game open in the fifth when Dues and Hamilton drew back-to-back walks to open the frame before Black belted a three-run shot over the right-center field wall to extend the lead to four. Black struck again in the seventh, this time with a solo homer to open the inning and tally the afternoon's final runs.
 
After allowing the unearned run in the second, Cline retired nine Penguin batters in a row, and 10 of 11 overall, from the end of the second inning through the sixth before tallying two final strikeouts in the seventh. Cline allowed just four hits and had no walks to go along with his 11 strikeouts on the way to his second straight Sunday victory.
 
Offensively, Black led the way with his three-hit, four RBI day, while Greenwell finished with two hits. Greenwell added a double to go along with his triple, with Zane Harris and Jay Luikart notching doubles as well.
 
Jon Snyder took the loss for Youngstown State, allowing five runs (four earned) with five walks over four innings. Five different Penguins each recorded one hit each on the afternoon, with Dominick Bucko's RBI single in the second the lone run producer.
 
Wright State hits the road next weekend for the first time in Horizon League play, traveling to Chicago to play a four-game set against UIC.