Rochester, Mich. – Scoring double-digit runs for the fifth consecutive game, Oakland defeated Youngstown State, 11-6, on Friday, April 1, moving their season record back to .500 at 12-12 and improving to 5-2 in Horizon League play.

This 5-2 mark in league action represents the Golden Grizzlies' best seven-game start since joining the conference in the 2014 season.

Redshirt junior right-hander Brett Hagen won his second straight start, allowing three earned runs on four hits over five innings with one walk and three strikeouts.

After Hagen departed, redshirt senior lefty Christian Stelling, freshman righty Hunter Pidek, and graduate student Quinton Kujawa, another right-hander, handled the pitching duties the rest of the way.

Finishing 2-4 with his fourth double of the campaign and a run scored, graduate student second baseman Brad Goulet posted his third consecutive multi-hit game and raised his batting average to .313 – second-best on the team, trailing only freshman third baseman Brandon Nigh's .358.

During his current three-game hit streak, Goulet is 8-13, good for a robust .615 average.

Redshirt senior Brenton Phillips hit the first of two Oakland home runs on the day – a three-run shot in a four-run first inning – and senior Michael Stygles delivered the other, a pinch-hit, two-run blast in the fifth.

Phillips' round-tripper was his second of the season and he now boasts a five-game hit streak. Going back to the first game of the Wright State doubleheader on March 20, the Albany, Georgia native and Akron Zips transfer has now hit safely in seven of his last eight contests.

Righty Jon Snyder, a redshirt senior, took the loss for the Penguins. He was tagged for six earned runs over 4.1 innings.

Interestingly, Snyder only gave up two hits and struck out five, but six walks did him in.

Senior third baseman Steven D'Eusanio and redshirt freshman right fielder Chase Franken had multi-hit afternoons for Youngstown State, both tallying two.

Up next
The middle tilt of this three-game set will take place on Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m.

Jacob Wosinski, a redshirt senior right-hander, will go for the Golden Grizzlies and will be opposed by senior Travis Perry, a fellow righty.

This could quite possibly be the tallest starting pitching matchup the Horizon League features all season, as Wosinski is 6-foot-8 and the Penguins' website lists Perry at 6-foot-7.

In six starts this season, Wosinski is 2-2 with a 3.49 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 12 walks, and 31 strikeouts over 28.1 innings.

Perry has also appeared in six games, five of which have been starts, posting a 1-1 record, 6.33 ERA, 11 walks, and 24 punchouts over 27 frames.