DAYTON, Ohio -- Playing for the first time in over two weeks, the Wayne State University baseball team was at Wright State's Nischwitz Stadium to face Ohio Dominican in the first two of a four-game set.  The Warriors were victorious in game one 5-3 before falling in the nightcap 13-8.  Game one of Tuesday's two seven-inning affairs will commence at high noon.

GAME ONE
Wayne State got the scoring started with a pair of runs in the top of the first.  Tony Hatzigeorgiou (Oxford, Mich.) singled in Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) and later came around to score when the Ohio Dominican catcher committed a throwing error attempting to catch Mason McGuire Lyon Twp., Mich. / Brighton [Mott CC]) stealing second.

Niether team would score again until the sixth when Jacoby Dale (Roseville, Mich. [Spring Arbor/Henry Ford CC]) doubled in McGuire and Logan Van Sicklen (Waterford Twp., Mich. / Waterford Kettering) hit a two-run home run (Dale) to left, his second bomb of the season.

The Panthers got one back in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded walk, but that would be it as the Warriors were able to slam the door.

Evan Langlois (Brownstown, Mich. / Woodhaven) made the start with three innings pitched, two earned runs given up on three hits, no walks and two strikeouts.  First out of the bullpen, Gabe Nazelli (Farmington Hills, Mich. / Detroit Country Day) surrendered just one earned run on a single hit in 3.2 frames with four free passes and two punchouts.  In the 11th appearance of his career, Nazelli picked up his first collegiate win.

Rocco Cardinale (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) walked in a run before notching the game's 21st out with a swinging strikeout as well has his first career save.

GAME TWO
Ohio Dominican opened the scoring with a five spot in the bottom of the first and did so without recording a single it.  The half inning saw 11 batters come to the plate with six walks and two hit batsmen.

Wayne State proceeded to get four of those five back in the top of the second, which started when Reagan Paulina (Highland, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central [Oakland] scored McGuire with a base knock to right.  Then, Bennett Hitzelberger (Richmond, Mich.) hit a bases-loaded double to left center that forced in three, Paulina, Noah Murciano (Richmond Hill, Ont. / Bill Crothers S.S.[Sussex County C.C. / Coppin State]) and Hill.

In the home half of the second, the Panthers stretched their advantage back to two (6-4), but the Warriors' offense wasn't done and was able to knot the scoreboard up at 6-6.

Moving on to the fourth, Hill pushed across Dayton transfer Caleb Sanders (Eastpointe, Mich. / Detroit Edison Public School Academy) with a sacrifice fly to center and Hitzelberger did the same to plate Murciano.

However, ODU tallied two runs in the fourth and five more in the fifth to take its biggest lead of the game, 13-6.  WSU slimmed the deficit to five in the seventh, first with pinch-hitter Brady Blakita (Canton, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central) doubling in another pinch-hitter, Ty Garza (Grosse Ile, Mich. / Grosse Ile [Barton College]).  Blakita would later score when Paulina reached on a throwing error by the home team's shortstop.

On the mound, Keegan Pulford-Thorpe (Aurora, Ont. / Newmarket [Central Florida / Georgia Highlands College]), Robert Klann (Livonia, Mich. / Brother Rice [Michigan State]), Coy Plummer (New Hudson, Mich. / South Lyon), and Will DeMasse (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota) each saw time for Wayne State.  Klann was saddled with the loss, his first decision as a Warrior.