Wright State Beats BGSU At Steller Field In Home Finale

Tuesday, May 15

Bowling Green, Ohio

3:05 PM

Bowling Green State University

11-36

Wright State University

33-15

Wright State

Bowling Green

May 15, 2018 | Baseball

Box Score

By: by James Nahikian, BGSU Athletic Communications

Box Score (PDF)

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball program was defeated by Wright State University, 5-2, Tuesday (May 15) afternoon at Steller Field. The Raiders scored three runs in the fourth, and maintained the lead the rest of the way to pick up the victory.

After the Falcons opened the scoring with a Jeff Scott double in the second, the regular-season champions in the Horizon League plated three in the fourth. BGSU trimmed the lead to a single run after Derek Drewes shot a two-out RBI single into left-center in the eighth, but the Raiders tacked on two big insurance runs in the ninth, before shutting the door in the bottom of the inning.

Today's game marked the final home game in the careers of seniors Tyler Anderson, Kody Brown, Zac Carey, Derek Drewes, Wes Rickenberg, Randy Righter and Justin Mott.

Bowling Green will conclude its 2018 season with a three-game series at Toledo, beginning with 3:05 p.m. starts on Thursday (May 17) and Friday (May 18). The regular-season finale for BGSU is slated for Saturday (May 19) at 1:05 p.m.

COACH SCHMITZ QUOTE
"I thought we came out here and played a pretty solid game against a really, really good team," said head coach Danny Schmitz. "We allowed two crooked numbers, and most of the time, a team like Wright State will make you pay for that. But I thought a number of different pitchers gave us strong efforts, and we did had some good situational hitting. We just didn't give ourselves enough chances offensively."

ADDITIONAL GAME NOTES
• Jeremy Spezia got the start for Bowling Green, and pitched 3.0 innings of no-hit baseball. He allowed just one walk while striking out two.
• Over his last three appearances, which spans 10.0 innings, Spezia has surrendered just four hits while not allowing a single run.
• David Stopp was very strong from out of the pen, as Wright State mustered just one hit against the lefty across 3.2 innings. Stopp fanned two and walked one.
• In his last appearance at Steller Field, Kody Brown fired a scoreless eighth inning.
• Randy Righter and Jeff Scott each went 2-for-4 with a double. Righter scored a run, and Scott drove in a run.
• In his last at-bat at Steller Field, Derek Drewes lined an RBI single into left-center in the eighth inning. Drewes went 1-for-4 on the day.
• Jake Wilson extended both his on-base streak and his hitting streak with an infield single in the eighth. Wilson has recorded a hit in 13-straight games, and has reached base safely in 27-straight games.