HAMMOND, Ind. -- The Wayne State University baseball team (22-24 overall, 10-10 GLIAC) racked up 14 runs on 12 hits to blow out Purdue Northwest (15-25 overall, 3-17 GLIAC) 14-4 in seven innings on Tuesday in the two teams' regular-season series finale. Next up for the Warriors are their final contests before the postseason, a four-game home set against Parkside on Friday through Sunday.
Wayne State scored six runs in the second inning, two in the third, four in the fifth, and two in the sixth to triumph in commanding fashion.
Four Warriors finished with multiple hits including
Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) at 3-for-4,
Caleb Sanders (Eastpointe, Mich. / Detroit Edison Public School Academy [Dayton]) at 2-for-3,
Aidan Arbogast (Livonia, Mich. / Livonia Stevenson [Mid-Michigan C.C. / Kellogg C.C. / Eastern Michigan]) at 2-for-3, and
Mason McGuire (Lyon Twp., Mich. / Brighton [Mott CC]) at 2-for-5.
Hill, Arbogast, McGuire,
Jacoby Dale (Roseville, Mich. [Spring Arbor/Henry Ford CC]), and each drove in multiple runs while
Reagan Paulina (Highland, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central [Oakland]) tacked on an RBI as well. Paulina hit a solo home run in the third (fifth of the season), Dale crushed a two-run shot in the fifth (his third) and Hill went deep twice for the first time in his career. The sophomore right fielder did so with a solo bomb in the third and two-run blast in the fifth for a team-leading six on the season.
On the mound,
Miles Jamieson (Grosse Pointe, Mich. / Grosse Pointe South [Mid Michigan / Davidson]) made the start and lasted three innings. Jamieson gave up two earned runs on two hits with five walks and three strikeouts.
First out of the bullpen,
Will DeMasse (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota) picked up the victory (3-3) after two and two-thirds frames of work. DeMasse allowed one earned run on three hits with one free pass and four punchouts.
Following one batter retired by
Braylon Laroo (Canton, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central),
Ethan Getting (Kalamazoo, Mich. / Portage Northern [Purdue Northwest]) shut the door in the seventh against his former school. Getting surrendered one earned run on two hits with one walk and two strikeouts.