CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - The Wayne State University baseball team (32-18) fell victim to a late-inning comeback by Grand Valley State University (40-13) as the nationally-ranked Lakers defeated the Warriors, 6-4, in the GLIAC Tournament on Friday at V.A. Memorial Stadium.

Wayne State took a 4-3 lead into the eighth when GVSU scored three times, ending Chris Waha's (Charlevoix, Mich.) bid for a victory after the senior right pitched seven strong innings.  Brad Zambron came on in the ninth to close it out and earn his 16th save of the season.

The Warriors will await the winner of Friday afternoon's matchup between Saginaw Valley State and Lake Erie, two teams which fell to the loser's bracket courtesy of Wayne State.  The winner of the nightcap will meet GVSU in the championship game Saturday.

Kyle Vesey (Brighton, Mich.), Kasey Koster (Portage, Mich./Central) and Kenny Davis (Wyoming, Mich./Lee) had two hits apiece as the Warriors scored a run in each of the middle innings.  Koster scored twice and hit his fifth home run of the season, and Vesey extended his hitting streak to 13 games.

Kevin Zak and Chris Rudenga led the Lakers with three hits apiece.

An RBI double by Steve Anderson, the GLIAC Co-Player of the Year, gave the Lakers a 1-0 lead in the first.  Wayne State answered in the second as Koster sent a blast over the fence in right center.

Vesey and Alex Trojan (Fenton, Mich./Hartland) led off the fourth with consecutive singles, and Vesey scored on a one-out base hit by Chris Gebara (Troy, Mich.).  Jared Cowan hit a one-out double in the bottom half and scored on a single by Rudenga.

Brad Guenther (Ann Arbor, Mich./Saline) led off the fifth inning with a walk and later scored on an RBI single by Kyle Zimmerman (Frankfort, Mich.), his first hit of the postseason.  Koster, who started the sixth with a base hit, scored on a grounder by Guenther to make it a 4-2 game.

Waha fanned Rudenga with two outs in the sixth, but Rudenga reached on a wild pitch to put two runners on.  Stephen Claypool's subsequent single drove in Jamie Potts and Rudenga, trying to take third, was thrown out to end the inning.

The Lakers sent all nine hitters to the plate in their three-run eighth inning, as Ethan Vasiliauskas (South Rockwood, Mich./Carleton Airport) allowed four hits in relief of Waha, who had scattered eight hits through the first seven frames.

Cory Rademacher (4-0), who replaced starter Cory Baker in the sixth, pitched 2.2 innings of one-hit ball and earned his second victory of the tournament.  Vasiliauskas fell to 6-2 on the year.

NOTES
Vesey is 22-for-45 (.489) with 17 runs scored during his 13-game hitting streak … Waha stranded a GVSU runner in each of his seven innings of work … Guenther has 32 walks this season, tied for the 10th-highest total in program history … Andrew Ciennik (Waterford, Mich./Mott) and Gebara lead the team in hits (6) and RBI (4), respectively, in the tournament.