Wright State University
40-21
Louisville
38-21
Raiders' Run Ends in Regional Final
6/2/2025 12:06:00 AM | Baseball
The Cards put two on the board in the top half of the first off starter Chet Lax. Louisville took advantage of a couple of fluke hits and a pair of free passes. Lax was able to turn a slow roller into a 1-2-3 double play to limit the damage. Lax would go the first two innings a day after he closed out the 7-5 victory over East Tennessee State.
Parker Thomas quieted the Louisville bats until the fifth, when the Cards scratched across another run on an RBI single. The Raiders flashed the leather that inning with Boston Smith cutting down a would-be base stealer and JP Peltier taking away extra bases on an inning-ending sliding catch. The Cards would build on the lead with one in the sixth and two more crossing the plate in the eighth.
The Raiders simply had no answer for freshman lefty Ethan Eberle. Eberle allowed two hits over 6.2 innings of work, walking three and striking out 11. The Raiders got runners to second and third in the seventh, but Conlan Daniel couldn't beat out a high infield chopper.
The season concludes at 40-21 and the Raiders first regional final appearance since 2016, when they also fell to Louisville. It is the sixth 40-win campaign in the Division-I era for the program and first since head coach Alex Sogard's first year when the team went 42-17. Â Â
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2025 Nashville Regional All-Tournament Team
C – Boston Smith, Wright State
1B – Tristan Curless, ETSU
2B – Rustan Rigdon, Vanderbilt
SS – Alex Alicea, Louisville
3B – Patrick Fultz, Wright State
OF – Eddie King Jr., Louisville
OF – Axel Melendez, ETSU
OF – Lucas Moore, Louisville
DH/UTIL – Mike Mancini, Vanderbilt
P – Ethan Eberle, Louisville
P – Griffen Paige, Wright StateÂ
MVP – Eddie King Jr., Louisville
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Ethan Eberle (6-2)
L: Lax, Chet (5-2)
S: Wyatt Danilowicz (3)
Batting:
2B: Matt Klein 1 ; Eddie King Jr. 1 ; Kamau Neighbors 1
3B: Jake Munroe 1
RBI: Matt Klein 1 ; Eddie King Jr. 2 ; Kamau Neighbors 1 ; Alex Alicea 2
SH: Kamau Neighbors 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Lucas Moore 1 ; Matt Klein 1 ; Jake Munroe 2 ; Tague Davis 1 ; Alex Alicea 1
SB: Lucas Moore 1 ; Kamau Neighbors 1
CS: Matt Klein 1
HBP: Garret Pike 1 ; Jake Munroe 1
PO: Kamau Neighbors 1
Base Running:
SB: Smith, Boston 1 ; Arnold, Luke 1
