DETROIT -- Playing their only home game in a 27-day span, the eighth-ranked Wayne State University baseball team (25-4 overall) made it count on Tuesday afternoon. The Warriors trailed Ashland (22-10) 4-1 entering the bottom of the ninth inning, tied it up there and then walked it off in the bottom of the 10th, 5-4. Next up, WSU will be at Grand Valley State on Friday through Sunday for a four-game GLIAC set against the Lakers.
Down by three runs going into the home half of the ninth frame, Wayne State's
Ryan Foley (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Saline) started things off with a double to left field. One out later,
Hunter DeLanoy (Hartland, Mich. / Hartland) made it a 4-2 game thanks to an RBI single right back up the middle. Then, with two outs and DeLanoy standing at first,
Chris Tanderys (Livonia, Mich. / Stevenson) hit a no-doubt home run over the fence in right field, his fourth of the season, to make it a 4-4 ballgame.
Ryan Korolden (Yale, Mich. / Yale), who improved to 5-1 on the spring, retired the side in the top of the 10th, while stranding two baserunners, before the fireworks in the bottom of the inning.
Noah Miller (Macomb, Mich. / University Liggett) led off with a single through the left side before he was retired at second when
Kyle Ray (Woodhaven, Mich. / Woodhaven) was unable to advance him with the sacrifice bunt.
Mason McGuire (Lyon Twp., Mich. / Brighton) then singled through the right side, Ray moved up to second and then Foley walked to load up the bases for
CJ Maury (Brampton, Ont. / Mayfield SS).
Maury hit a routine grounder to the second baseman who threw it to the shortstop for one, but the turn to first base wasn't in time and pinch-runner
Kyle Domzalski (Huntington Woods, Mich. / Berkley) had scored to win it.
Going back to the start,
Griffin Kilander (Livonia, Mich. / Stevenson) gave up two earned runs on six hits in four innings pitched with one walk and three strikeouts. Then, in order before Korolden, came
Brennan Cox (Taylor, Mich. / Riverview Gabriel Richard) with two frames,
Cam Rosen (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Dexter) for one,
Chad Sommers (Jonesville, Mich. / Jonesville) with one, and
Kaden Stively (Washington, Mich. / Romeo) for one.
Not to be overlooked was the outing by Ashland's Matt Hall, who received a no decision, after six-and-a-third frames of one-run pitching on 99 pitches. Hall faced 26 batters, walked two of them and recorded six strikeouts.
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