DETROIT -- Nearly a month after the first game of the season, the 20th-ranked Wayne State University baseball team (12-3 overall) played its 2023 home opener on Tuesday afternoon against Northwood (12-8 overall). The Timberwolves led the Warriors wire to wire scoring two runs in the second, two in the third, two in the sixth, and another in the seventh for a 7-4 decision.

It was a bullpen game for both teams as a combined 14 pitchers were used, seven from each side, with none of them throwing more than two innings. Griffin Kilander (Livonia, Mich. / Stevenson) was handed his first loss of the season (3-1) after giving up two earned runs on two hits with one walk and a strikeout. For Northwood, Carson Longstreth improved to 1-1 with one earned run surrendered on two hits in two frames tossed.

Also pitching for WSU were Kaden Stively (Washington, Mich. / Romeo), David Thurman (Southfield, Mich. / Detroit Edison), Seth Marano (Canton, Mich. / Canton), Brennan Cox (Taylor, Mich. / Riverview Gabriel Richard), Chad Sommers (Jonesville, Mich. / Jonesville), and Ryan Korolden (Yale, Mich. / Yale).

Offensively for Wayne State, Tony Hatzigeorgiou (Oxford, Mich. / Oxford) made it a 2-1 game in the second when he brought in Rudy Ramirez (Brighton, Mich. / Brighton) thanks a sacrifice fly to right-center field. In the fifth, the Warriors scored on another sac fly, this time by CJ Maury (Brampton, Ont. / Mayfield SS) to right field to score Noah Miller (Macomb, Mich. / University Liggett). Fast forward to the ninth with the score 7-2, pinch-hitter Mason McGuire (Lyon Twp., Mich. / Brighton) scored on Maury's bases-loaded walk and Miller touched home plate on a passed ball.

Next up on the schedule for Wayne State is a home doubleheader against Davenport on Friday with game one scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.