FAIRBORN, Ohio – Completing the three-game series sweep, the Wright State Raiders defeated the Oakland Golden Grizzlies in both games of a Sunday, March 26 doubleheader at Nischwitz Stadium, winning the first 9-1 and the second 13-0.

With these two losses, Oakland is now 8-13 and 2-4 in Horizon League play, slotting the Golden Grizzlies fifth in the early-season conference standings, while the Raiders, who extended their win streak to seven, are now 13-10 and lead the league at 5-1.

GAME 1 – Wright State 9, Oakland 1
Scoring the contest's first run in the second inning, the Raiders added four more in both the fourth and eighth, finishing Game 1 with 13 hits.

Entering the game as a pinch-runner in the eighth and staying in as the designated hitter, redshirt sophomore Liam Pollock picked up an RBI in his first plate appearance of the year by scoring freshman Reggie Bussey with a ground ball to second base for the Golden Grizzlies' lone run in the ninth.

Sophomore right-hander Hunter Pidek took his first loss for Oakland in his fourth start of the season, allowing five runs (three earned) on nine hits over five innings. He did not walk a batter and struck out three.

Tossing eight shutout innings with seven strikeouts, redshirt sophomore lefty Sebastian Gongora, a Dayton native, earned his third win for Wright State.

GAME 2 – Wright State 13, Oakland 0
Although only one of their nine hits went for extra-bases, the Raiders scored three times in the third, four in the fourth, five in the sixth and recorded their final tally in the seventh.

Sophomore center fielder Andrew Patrick and junior first baseman Julian Greenwell, whose fourth-inning triple was the only hit to be something other than a single, paced the Wright State offense with two hits each.

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee junior right-hander Luke Stofel threw five innings of three-hit baseball with four walks and six strikeouts for his first win, while senior lefty Travis Densmore was tagged with the loss for the Golden Grizzlies and falls to 1-3.

Having two errors committed behind him, just one of the seven runs Densmore gave up in his 3.1 innings was earned and he struck out five while walking only two.

Junior Brandon Decker, redshirt seniors Brett Hagen and Caleb Fuller and left-hander Jake Matthaidess, another junior, combined to record the final 14 outs in relief.

UP NEXT
Their first home game of the 2023 season and the beginning of 10 in a row at the newly-turfed Oakland Baseball Field, the Golden Grizzlies will return to action on Tuesday, March 28 when the Mid-American Conference's (MAC) Eastern Michigan Eagles visit Rochester at 2:30 p.m.