UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - Brady Cooper (Allen Park, Mich.) earned his third consecutive complete game victory as the Wayne State baseball team (28-16, 22-6 GLIAC) defeated Saginaw Valley State (18-20, 14-14 GLIAC), 9-4, in the second game of Wednesday's twinbill.

Cooper scattered 10 hits and allowed just one earned run. He walked one and struck out five as he improved to 5-3 on the year.

Totaling three of WSU's 11 hits was Paul LaMantia (Tecumseh, Ont./St. Anne's) who extended his hitting streak to nine games, as did Ryan LaPensee (LaSalle, Ont./St. Thomas of Villanova), who went 1-for-3 with a run scored, and Michael Wiseman (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland), who hit his seventh home run of the season.

Kyle Vesey (Brighton, Mich.) and Andrew Ciennik (Waterford, Mich./Mott) collected two hits and two RBI apiece. Vesey also walked and scored twice.

After Ciennik's two-run single in the second inning gave the Warriors the early lead, the Cardinals erased it with three unearned runs in the bottom half, aided by a two-out infield error.

While a three-run second inning was all SVSU would need in Wednesday's opener, the WSU bats heated up in the late innings of the nightcap. A three-run homer by Wiseman gave the Warriors a 5-4 lead in the fifth.

Wayne State would add four insurance runs in the seventh, beginning with an RBI single by John Skaggs (Adrian, Mich.). Vesey would later double in a pair of runs and score himself on an error.

Craig Engerer (1-2) worked two innings in relief of Carson Beauchaine and took the loss. Beauchaine allowed three runs on six hits in 4.0 innings.

Wayne State will wrap up the 2010 regular season this weekend with a pivotal three-game series at Grand Valley State. The first-place Warriors enter the series with a 1.5-game lead over the Lakers in the GLIAC standings.

NOTES
WSU won four of the five meetings with SVSU this season … Wiseman's homer was the 18th of his career, putting him in a tie with Mike Magier (1992-95) for sixth all-time at Wayne State … Wiseman, LaPensee and LaMantia are a combined 47-for-101 (.465) over the last nine games … Cooper's earned-run average has dropped from 6.26 to 3.17 over his last four starts … he has a 4.67 strikeout/walk ratio in that span.