DETROIT -- The Wayne State University baseball team (38-10 overall, 24-6 GLIAC) took care of Davenport (26-24 overall, 20-10 GLIAC), 12-5, on Sunday afternoon for Senior Day and made some more history in the process. The Warriors broke the program record for overall wins in a single season and tied the school's all-time mark for GLIAC victories in a campaign.
Wayne State, the top seed for this coming week's GLIAC Tournament, will face sixth-seeded Parkside on Thursday at either 11 a.m. or 3 p.m. The league tournament will be played in Lansing at the home of the Lansing Lugnuts, Jackson Field, Friday through Sunday.
Back to this Sunday,
Griffin Kilander (Livonia, Mich. / Stevenson) made the start and improved to 6-3 with six masterful innings while lowering his season ERA to 2.66, which is good for fourth in the GLIAC. Kilander gave up one unearned run on five hits without a walk and eight strikeouts. Thanks to the right-hander's performance, Wayne State now boasts four of the top six individual ERA's in the league and a squad ERA of 3.77.
Out of the bullpen,
Mitchell Mychajluk (Macomb, Mich. / Utica Eisenhower),
Chad Sommers (Jonesville, Mich. / Jonesville) and
Ashton Potts (Sterling Heights, Mich. / Stevenson) handled the final three frames.
Offensively, the Warriors scored their 12 runs on 17 hits, their second-highest total this season and most at home. They did so with one run in the second inning, three in the third, five in the fourth, and three more in the seventh.
Individually, 10 different players registered a base knock and six of them finished with multiple hits while
Chris Tanderys (Livonia, Mich. / Stevenson) and
Rudy Ramirez (Brighton, Mich. / Brighton) both went deep again. Tanderys hit a solo home run in the second, his ninth of the spring, and Ramirez launched a three-run shot the next inning, his sixth of the year.
Joining those two with multiple hits were
Ryan Foley (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Saline),
CJ Maury (Brampton, Ont. / Mayfield SS),
Tony Hatzigeorgiou (Oxford, Mich. / Oxford), and
Brett Zimmerman (Frankfort, Mich. / Frankfort).
Prior to first pitch, the program honored 12 seniors/graduates including Mychajluk, Sommers, Tanderys, Ramirez, Foley, Zimmerman,
Brennan Cox (Taylor, Mich. / Riverview Gabriel Richard),
Kyle Domzalski (Huntington Woods, Mich. / Berkley),
Hunter DeLanoy (Hartland, Mich. / Hartland),
Noah Miller (Macomb, Mich. / University Liggett),
Joey Muzljakovich (Mayfield, Mich. / Traverse City St. Francis), and
Ryan Korolden (Yale, Mich. / Yale).
Domzalski had a pinch-hit single in the eighth, DeLanoy went 1-for-4 and Miller had a hit in his two at-bats.
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