The Wright State baseball team scored eight runs over the first two innings and had its starting pitcher tally double-digit strikeouts for the third time this weekend in Sunday's 13-1 victory over Northern Kentucky to complete the four-game weekend sweep to begin Horizon League play.
 
The Raiders (4-5, 4-0 HL) saw five players drive in two runs each, while Quincy Hamilton belted his third homer of the weekend to get the scoring going in the first inning.
 
Wright State sent nine men to the plate in the bottom of the first, tallying four runs and chasing Northern Kentucky (2-9, 0-4 HL) starter Bryson Lonsbury after he recorded just one out while giving up four runs.
 
A Damon Dues single began the first before Hamilton stepped in and delivered a two-run shot to right field to give the Raiders the lead for good two batters into the afternoon. Wright State added on with a Zane Harris RBI single and a two-run double from Alex Alders.
 
The Raiders added on in the second, first on a two-run single from Tyler Black before Harris connected on an RBI triple and then scored moments later on a wild pitch. In the sixth, it was Gehrig Anglin's turn for a triple, driving home two runs, before an RBI single from Alec Sayre and a two-run single from Justin McConnell later in the frame gave Wright State its final tally.
 
Black finished with three hits and Harris added two of his own as the Raiders finished with 13 hits on the afternoon, adding nine walks, with 10 different players collecting hits in the win.
 
Austin Cline struck out 12 NKU batters over six innings in his first home start at The Nisch, allowing three hits and one run. Cline struck out the side in the fourth and sixth, with two strikeouts in three additional innings. He struck out nine of his final 10 batters faced, allowing only a groundout in the fifth to break the streak.
 
Wright State continues Horizon League play at home next weekend, welcoming Youngstown State to Nischwitz Stadium for a four-game set beginning Friday afternoon.