The Wright State baseball team opened the final weekend of regular season play with a pair of home wins over Horizon League foe Oakland on Friday at Nischwitz Stadium, taking game one 7-4 before a 16-0 win in the nightcap.
 
The Raiders (27-11, 26-4 Horizon) and Oakland (15-26, 9-21 Horizon) wrap up the series Saturday afternoon with another doubleheader, with the first game slated for a 1 p.m. start on ESPN3.
 
Prior to Saturday's first game, Wright State will honor four seniors: Alex Alders, Austin Cline, Mitch Gremling and Konner Piotto.
 
In the opener, the Raiders trailed early after a pair of two-run innings in the second and third frames by Oakland before Wright State got on the board with a single run in the third as Damon Dues walked to open the inning and later scored on a wild pitch.
 
Wright State sent 10 batters to the plate in the fourth inning, plating four runs to take the lead. Justin McConnell's double down the right field line brought home two runs before he scored later in the inning on an Oakland error to tie the game momentarily. Alec Sayre's bases loaded infield single brought in a run to give the Raiders the lead moments later. In the fifth, the Raiders added on with a pair of RBI doubles from Dues and Quincy Hamilton to give the game its final score.
 
Alex Alders had three of the Raiders' nine hits in game one, while Wright State had four doubles – one each from Dues, Hamilton, Piotto and McConnell. After Jake Schrand tossed only 2.1 innings in his shortest start of the season, Jake Shirk pitched a career-high 3.2 innings of relief with a pair of strikeouts to earn his fifth win of the season. Tristan Haught worked around a leadoff walk to strikeout the side in the seventh to notch the save.
 
Oakland starter Andrew Hill did not factor in the decision after going three-plus innings, allowing one run on four walks without allowing a hit. Reliever Hayden Nierman was saddled with the loss after allowing six runs (four earned) over 1.2 innings of work. Jared Miller had two hits and drove in three RBI in the losing effort.
 
Wright State's offense came out hot in game two, scoring multiple runs over the first three innings before a five-run fifth put the game out of reach. The Raiders plated four runs in both the first and third innings, and two runs in the second, before the five-run outburst in the fifth.
 
Sammy Sass collected two RBI on his first inning double to left center field, and an Oakland error plated a third run on the play, to get the scoring started before Sass scored moments later on Sayre's sacrifice fly. Tyler Black connected on a two-run homer to right field in the second inning before a Dues' two-run single in the third and a Hamilton two-run over of his own in the third.
 
Hamilton was again part of the scoring in the fifth, driving in two runs with his single to right before an RBI single from Sayre and a sacrifice fly from Alders later in the inning. The Raiders capped the scoring with a Julian Greenwell RBI single in the eighth.
 
Seven Raiders had multi-hit games as they collected 18 total hits, paced by Dues' three-hit game out of the leadoff spot, while Hamilton, Black, Sass, Greenwell, Sayre and Cameron Rountree all had two hits. Hamilton had four RBI in the nightcap, while Dues, Black, Sass and Sayre all drove in a pair of runs.
 
Bradley Brehmer improved to 7-3 on the season after striking out eight over six innings of work, allowing just two hits with three walks. Brock Nartker, Henry Von Hollen and Donnie Nicodemus all turned in hitless innings to close the night.
 
Oakland starter Cooper Donlin allowed four runs (three earned) on four hits with two walks in his lone inning of work to get stuck with the loss, while Brenton Phillips and Ian Cleary had the lone hits.