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 Derek Ranck blasted his second home run of the season Sunday at Mercyhurst. |
March 30, 2008
ERIE, Pa. - The Wayne State baseball team (9-7, 7-0 GLIAC) won the third game of its series at Mercyhurst (12-10, 1-6 GLIAC) by a narrow 3-2 margin Sunday afternoon.
Derek Ranck (Clarkston, Mich.) hit his second home run of the season, and Justin Mazur (Macomb, Mich./De La Salle) won his second straight start as the Warriors won their seventh in a row overall.
Ryan LaPensee (LaSalle, Ont./St. Thomas of Villanova) put the Warriors on the board first with an RBI single in the fourth inning, plating Michael Wiseman (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland).
After drawing a one-out walk in the sixth, Wiseman would come in to score on Ranck's home run, giving WSU a 3-0 lead.
A sacrifice fly by John Blike in the bottom of the sixth inning accounted for Mercyhurst's first run of the series. The Lakers nearly mounted a comeback in the seventh, but despite four hits in the frame they only scored once on an RBI single by Jonathan Keppler.
Mazur (3-0) scattered nine hits over 6.1 innings, walking one and striking out three. Josh Lewis (Harper Woods, Mich./Grosse Pointe North), who recorded the final two outs in the seventh, escaped a bases-loaded jam to earn his first career save.
NOTES
Wayne State had a streak of 24 consecutive scoreless innings, dating back to last Saturday's fourth game against Gannon, until Blike's sacrifice fly ... Ranck leads the Warriors with four multiple-RBI games this season ... his seven total bases Sunday tied a team-high ... Adam Kaminski (Clinton Twp., Mich./Mt. Clemens) was 2-for-3 for his first multiple-hit game of the year.