DAYTON — The Wright State baseball program lost to the Dayton Flyers 8-3 on Tuesday night in front of a packed crowd of 6,743 at Day Air Ballpark.
The Raiders fell to 20-17 on the season and will turn their focus to a three-game series at Purdue Fort Wayne from April 21-23.
Sammy Sass led Wright State at the plate, batting 2-for-4 with an RBI and a stolen base.
Julian Greenwell finished with a double, an RBI, and a run scored.
Carson Clark and
Avery Fisher both went 1-for-3 offensively and scored in the fifth inning.
Boston Smith connected on a triple for his lone hit of the day.
Starting pitcher
Tristan Haught (3-2) took the loss after allowing seven runs on six hits in 2.1 innings. WSU's bullpen gave up just one run, no earned, in 5.1 innings, recording five strikeouts while giving up five hits.
Ty Roder fired two perfect innings, while
Josh Laisure punched out two batters in 1.2 innings of scoreless action.
Defensively, the Raiders committed an error in the first and eighth innings, leading to one unearned run for the Flyers.
Wright State jumped out to a 1-0 advantage in the top of the first inning, as Greenwell led off the game with a double and came around to score on an RBI single off the bat of Sass.
Dayton (12-24) responded with three runs on an RBI groundout and a two-out, two-run double by Mason Dobie in the bottom of the first. Dobie extended the Flyers' lead to 7-1 in the bottom of the third with a grand slam.
The Raiders chipped away in the top of the fifth, scoring runs on an RBI groundout by Greenwell and a sacrifice fly by
Andrew Patrick. However, WSU's offense was scoreless on two hits for the remainder of the game.
UD scored an insurance run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth to extend cushion their edge to 8-3. Wright State went down in order in the top of the ninth to seal the loss.
