Wright State scores late to post doubleheader sweep of YSU

DAYTON — Wright State scored the game-winning run in its last at-bat in both games of a doubleheader sweep of the Youngstown State baseball team on Saturday at Nischwitz Stadium.

The Raiders scored a run in the bottom of the eighth in Game One to break a 4-4 tie, and they rallied from four runs down in Game Two to win 7-6 in 10 innings.

Senior John Koehnlein recorded his 200th career hit in the third inning of game one and finished with six hits on the day.

Cody Dearth recorded his third straight solid start in game one, allowing two earned runs on seven hits in six innings.

Dearth left with the Penguins trailing 3-1, but YSU rallied to tie the score at 4-4 in the top of the eighth.

Wright State answered by manufacturing a run in the bottom of the inning to win 5-4.

The Raiders scored their only two earned runs off Dearth in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead.

R.J. Gundolff walked to start the inning, and Casey McGrew and Jeff Mercer had run-scoring hits.

The double by McGrew was the Raiders’ only hit for extra bases in the contest.

The Penguins opened the third with three straight singles but could only get one run across.

C.J. Morris drove in Jeremy Banks on a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded, but Eric Marzec flew out to shallow right and Joe Iacobucci hit into a fielder’s choice.

Dearth worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the inning, but the Raiders got an unearned run in the fourth to go up 3-1.

YSU had three straight two-out hits in the seventh to get within one on Koehnlein’s RBI single.

Mercer, though, singled home McGrew after a wild pitch in the bottom of the inning to put Wright State up 4-2.

Banks hit a game-tying two-run double with two outs in the top of the eighth, but Wright State answered again with a run in the bottom half.

Tristan Moore was hit by a pitch to start the inning, and Gerald Oginc sacrificed him to second. Gundolff then singled in the game-winning run.