DETROIT – Wayne State scored seven runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to stun Roosevelt 9-8 in the third game of their four-game Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series on Saturday in Detroit.
The Lakers (7-24, 1-10 GLIAC) were in control for nearly the entire game until the bottom of the ninth.
Kaden Foran allowed just three hits and an unearned run in six innings of work while fanning three batters, and left with a 4-1 lead. Even after the Warriors scored once in the seventh, Roosevelt poured on four more runs in the eighth inning to seemingly take control and snap its nine-game GLIAC losing skid.
Instead, Wayne State scored seven runs on seven hits, including three two-out hits, to pull out the shocker. The Warriors finished with a 15-10 edge in hits and had six extra-base hits, three of which came in the final inning.
The Warriors took an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly after a double became a triple due to a fielding error in the outfield. However, the Lakers quickly responded in the third inning with a
Sebastian Casillas homer over the right-field fence with two outs.
Roosevelt took the lead in the fifth on a crazy play that involved two errors from Wayne State after
James Berry extended his hit streak to 19 games with an RBI single. The first error allowed Berry to move to second and Casillas to reach third, but another throwing error meant Casillas was able to score and Berry moved to third.
A leadoff walk came around to score for Roosevelt in the top of the seventh inning with
Quinn O'Bryan knocking in pinch runner
Jack Kieffer. The Warriors scored a run in the seventh inning before
Griffin Lamarche induced an inning-ending flyout to strand a runner on third base.
It looked like the Lakers were going to run away with the game in the eighth inning after scoring four runs in the frame.
Kekoa Ogawa led off with a walk then
Jack Hoh advanced him with a single before
Luke Ulbert smashed an RBI double.
Kyle Jannenga scored both Hoh and Ulbert with a double of his own then Kieffer lined a single that scored Jannenga.
Foran did his part to make sure Roosevelt had a chance to win, throwing a strong six innings on the bump. He stranded the bases loaded in the third inning with a fly ball into short centerfield then a groundout to shortstop. He retired the side in the fourth and fifth before working around a leadoff double in the sixth.
AJ Gliwa did his part in the eighth inning as well with a 3-2 strikeout to end the frame with two runners still on the base paths. Roosevelt pitching stranded nine runners on base in the game and induced a double play.
UP NEXT: Roosevelt will close out its series on Sunday at 12 p.m. against the Warriors.
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