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May 1,
2004
Wright State Rallies Twice in Rainy 7-6 Victory
Niles, Ohio -- The Wright State
Raiders came from behind twice and
outlasted a two-hour, 25-minute rain
delay to defeat the Youngstown State
Penguins 7-6 in a seven-inning
Horizon League contest at Eastwood
Field Saturday.
Game two of the scheduled doubleheader never got underway as
the rain picked up again just after
the conclusion of game one.
With Wright State in favor 4-2 heading into the bottom of the
sixth at 2:30 p.m., the clouds
opened up and the tarp was laid out
for the first of four times on the
afternoon. Finally, at 4:55,
play resumed and the Penguins came
out hot at the plate.
Brandon Caipen led off the inning with a double just inside
the bag at third and Charles Schultz
followed with a single to center
that snuck under Chris Jergens'
glove, which allowed Caipen to score
and Schultz to move to second.
After Jim Lipinski moved Schultz to
third with a groundout, reliever Joe
Smith walked Justin Banks on five
pitches and took Adam Cox to a full
count before throwing a wild pitch
that allowed Schultz to score the
typing run and Cox to reach on the
free pass. Kyle Penrod then
ripped an RBI single to center to
plate Banks and Jim Phillips was hit
by a pitch with the bases loaded two
batters later to score Cox and put
the Penguins up 6-4.
YSU had a chance to blow the game open as it had the bases
loaded with only one out, but WSU
reliever Matt Crawford came in to
force Kendall Schlabach into a
fielder's choice and got Caipen to
fly out to right to end the inning.
Wright State made the most of YSU's missed opportunity as it
came back to score three runs in the
top half of the seventh to take a
7-6 lead. The Raiders banged
out three straight hits off of YSU
reliever Andy Svitak to start the
inning as Pat Masters singled, Bryan
Vickers doubled and Ross Vagedas hit
a two-run single to tie the score at
6. After a strikeout and a
Penguin error, pinch hitter Brian
Shoup singled into shallow right
over the head of Justin Banks to
bring home the winning run in
Vagedas.
Svitak dropped to 1-3 on the season while Crawford picked up
his first career victory and
improved to 1-3 on the season.
Kevin Kuntz picked up his second
save of the season in throwing a
perfect seventh inning for the
Raiders.
Justin Thomas scattered eight hits and allowed four runs in
the first six innings for the
Penguins.
The Penguins jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second when
Banks raced around from first to
score on a Penrod double to right
center and Brian Boone hit an RBI
single to right.
Wright State answered immediately, however, in the top of the
third when Vagedas singled home
Coleman and Jergens brought home
Vickers on a fielder's choice.
The Raiders took their first lead of the game in the fourth
on an RBI single from Coleman and
tacked on another in the fifth on a
solo homer from Vickers.
Penrod finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs while Boone finished
with two hits and one RBI to lead
the Penguins. Coleman,
Vickers, Vagedes and Jeff Chalupa
had two hits apiece for the Raiders.
Wright State outhit YSU 13-7.
Weather permitting, the teams will square off in a
doubleheader Sunday beginning at 1
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