CINCINNATI -- The Wayne State University baseball team (4-0 overall) finished off its four-game sweep of Tiffin (0-7 overall) on Sunday afternoon thanks to a 6-1 victory in the series finale at UC Baseball Stadium.  Next up on the schedule, the Warriors will face Lewis for four on Friday-Sunday at USA Stadium in Millington, Tenn.

Starting pitcher Gabe Nazelli (Farmington Hills, Mich. / Detroit Country Day) made his first start of the season and set the tone for WSU.  Despite a no decision, Nazelli finished with five scoreless innings, only three hits allowed, five strikeouts, and no walks on 73 pitches.

Offensively, the Green and Gold struck first in the top of the second when Rhett Roeser (New Baltimore, Mich. / Warren De La Salle) reached on a fielder's choice to the shortstop, which allowed Drew Hill (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. / Grosse Pointe North) to come in from third base.

A pitchers' dual through the first seven innings, Tiffin got that run back in the seventh to make it a 1-1 affair heading into the eighth.

In the top of that eighth frame, Caleb Sanders (Eastpointe, Mich. / Detroit Edison Public School Academy [Dayton]), who had already singled as a pinch-hitter in the seventh, singled again one inning later.  Both Hill and Roeser scored, and Wayne State regained the lead at 3-1.

The Warriors tacked on three more runs in the ninth to give themselves a comfortable five-run advantage.  Roeser singled in pinch-runner Steven Whitted (Beverly Hills, Mich. / Birmingham Groves) before Garza was able to double in both Alfredo Velazquez (Livonia, Mich. / Brother Rice [Michigan])) and Roeser.

As for the rest of the pitching, Philip Miller (Flat Rock, Mich. / Woodhaven [Schoolcraft C.C. / Tusculum]) was first out of the bullpen for the sixth and seventh frames in his Wayne State introduction.  Miller garnered the victory after he gave up one earned run on two hits with one free pass and four punchouts.

Ethan Getting (Kalamazoo, Mich. / Portage Northern [Purdue Northwest]) retired three batters (zero hits, two walks, three strikeouts) in the eighth before Joel Mator (Trenton, Mich.) followed suit in the ninth (one hit, one punchout) for his collegiate debut.