ALLENDALE, Mich. -- The Wayne State University baseball team (18-19 overall, 7-5 GLIAC) led No. 9 Grand Valley State (29-9 overall, 12-5 GLIAC) 2-1 halfway through the fourth inning on Thursday afternoon in the series opener.  However, the Lakers scored six runs in the bottom of that fourth frame to steal the game's momentum before winning by a final score of 9-4.  The two teams will play a doubleheader on Friday beginning at 1 p.m.

Wayne State scored its first two runs on a pair of solo home runs, Caleb Sanders (Eastpointe, Mich. / Detroit Edison Public School Academy [Dayton]) in the second (second of the season) and Reagan Paulina (Highland, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central [Oakland]) in the fourth (tied for team lead with four).

The Warriors also brought in a pair of scores in the eighth when Sanders drew a bases-loaded walk to force in Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) and Bennett Hitzelberger scored Jacoby Dale (Roseville, Mich. [Spring Arbor/Henry Ford CC]) on a bases-loaded groundout to the second baseman.

On the mound for WSU, Will DeMasse (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota), Coy Plummer (New Hudson, Mich. / South Lyon) and Keegan Pulford-Thorpe (Aurora, Ont. / Newmarket [Central Florida / Georgia Highlands College]) teamed up for eight innings pitched.  DeMasse was saddled with the loss (2-3 record) while Pulford-Thorpe has pitched seven straight innings without allowing an earned run.