March 21, 2009 | Game One | Game Two

Raiders Score Late to Earn Two One-Run Victories Over Penguins

    Dayton, Ohio -- 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 a total of 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. He 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 Ogrinc sacrificed him to second. Gundolff then singled in the game-winning run.
    Wright State starter Alex Kaminsky allowed all four runs on 11 hits in eight innings. Freshman Michael Schum earned his second save by throwing a perfect ninth.
    In game two, Youngstown State pounded out a season-high 16 hits and took a 5-1 lead in the top of the fifth before Wright State rallied. The Raiders scored three in the bottom of the fifth and two of the sixth to lead 6-5, and YSU scored a run in the eighth to tie the game at 6-6. Wright State, though, got another solid outing from Schum and scored the game-winner on a one-out triple in the 10th.
    Marzec doubled in Koehnlein in the first, but Gundolff scored on a one-out single by Quentin Cate to even the score at 1-1.
    Iacobucci hit a two-out, two-run single in the third to put YSU up 3-1, and he and Jacke Healey had RBIs in the fifth as YSU took a 5-1 lead. The Penguins still had runners on first and second with one out after Healey's RBI single, but reliever Travis LaMar came in to get Anthony Porter to ground into an inning-ending double play.
    Wright State went on to score three runs in the fifth on a two-run homer and an RBI ground out, and it got three straight hits in the sixth to pull ahead 6-5.
    Porter doubled to start the top of the eighth, and pinch runner Jason Reitenbach scored on Koehnlein's two-out single up the middle to tie the score.
    Marzec, meanwhile, cruised through the eighth and ninth innings on the mound afer working out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh. He retired eight straight hitters until Mercer singled up the middle on an 0-2 pitch with one out in the 10th. Moore then hit a triple to right for the game-winner.
    Marzec was charged with the loss, allowing just the one run in the 10th on three hits while striking out five. Schum earned the victory, allowing one hit and striking out three in 2.1 innings.
    The Penguins will play at Duquesne on Tuesday at 3 p.m.