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 Freshmen Jordan Marker Threw Three Innings of Hitless Baseball and Picked up his Second Win of the Season. |
May 5, 2009
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DAYTON, Ohio – Aaron Fields drove in a pair of RBI’s and Jordan Marker held the Flyers hitless over the first three innings to help the Wright State baseball team to a 6-5 victory over cross town rival Dayton on Tuesday evening at Nischwitz Stadium. The capacity crowd of 836 watched as the Green and Gold snapped Dayton’s 12-game winning streak by scoring two runs in three separate innings.
The Raiders got on the board in the opening frame when Quentin Cate singled with runners on first and second to score the first run of the contest. Cate and Mercer, who was hit by a pitch to reach base, moved to second and third on an error by the left fielder and Mercer came in to score on a Ryan Ashe RBI ground out.
WSU tacked on two more runs in the second inning when Garrett Gray walked with one out to start the frame and Tristan Moore singled to put two runners on. Fields stepped in and doubled on the next pitch to plate Gray and Moore, giving WSU the early 4-0 lead.
UD (32-15) got their first run in the third against starting pitcher Jordan Marker as an error allowed a base runner to reach and a sacrifice fly scored the run, unearned.
Casey Henn entered for WSU in the fourth and got into some trouble as he allowed a leadoff double, hit a batter and walked one to load the bases. Jake Hoover singled to score the first run of the inning and after a line drive out, a walk forced in the second run of the frame. Greg Robinson came on and coaxed a double-play ball out of Jacob Speath to end the threat with WSU leading 4-3.
Two runs in the fourth extended the Raiders lead to 6-3 as Mercer and McGrew each collected their first RBI’s of the contest with back-to-back doubles. The RBI for Mercer was his 50th of the season, marking only the second time in school history (Kris Jarosz, 1995 & 1995) that a WSU player has posted back-to-back 50-RBI seasons.
Robinson held the Flyers scoreless in the fifth and Travis LaMar tossed a one-two-three sixth to hold the Raiders lead at 6-3. UD added a run in the seventh against LaMar, as a passed ball allowed another unearned run to score, making it a 6-4 lead in favor of WSU.
Lee Valencheck came on in the eighth and retired the first batter, but allowed a single and walked a batter, before Michael Schum came on in relief. An RBI single up the middle brought in the first run of the inning but Schum got a ground out and struck out a batter to hold the Raiders lead at 6-5.
Schum coaxed a ground out to start the ninth, struck out the second batter and Mercer made a diving stop and tossed to Schum at the bag for the final out of the contest. It was the 11th save of the season for the right-hander as he fanned two in 1.2 innings of work with only one hit.
Fields drove in a pair of runs from the leadoff spot, while Cate went four-for-five with an RBI to raise his average to .337. The first five batters in the WSU lineup collected RBI’s and Moore scored a pair of runs in the game.
The Raiders (24-24) out-hit Dayton 11-8 and WSU turned a pair of double plays to stifle Flyer rallies in the contest. WSU stranded 12 runners in the contest, while UD left only nine runners aboard.
Marker got the win to improve to 2-0 on the season with three innings of no-hit baseball. He walked one and allowed only an unearned run. Chris Beesley (4-3) took the loss for Dayton, allowing four runs – three earned – on five hits and a pair of walks.
Wright State will return to action this weekend with a pair of double-headers in Horizon League play. WSU will open with a twinbill at Youngstown State on Friday, May 8th at Eastwood field. The start time of those games are now 3:00, a change from the original start time announced at the beginning of the season.
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