Wright State advances in Horizon League baseball tournament

Quincy Hamilton and Tyler Black each drove in two runs to lead the top-seeded Wright State Raiders to a 4-3 victory against No. 4 seed Milwaukee in the first round of the Horizon League baseball tournament on Thursday at Nischwitz Stadium.

Wright State (33-11) advanced to the semifinals of the four-team, double-elimination tournament. It will play No. 1 Illinois-Chicago or No. 3 Youngstown State, which met in the second game Thursday, at noon Friday. All the games in the tournament will be televised on ESPN+.

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The Raiders built a 4-0 lead against Milwaukee. Hamilton drove in two runs with a triple in the third inning. Black had an RBI single in the same inning. In the fourth, Black hit a sacrifice fly to score the Raiders’ fourth run.

Milwaukee scored three runs in the fifth, but Jake Shirk and Tristan Haught combined to allow one hit in 4 1/3 scoreless innings to close the game for Wright State.

Haught entered the game with a runner at second and no outs in the ninth but escaped the jam with two groundouts and a game-ending strikeout with the runner at third.

Wright State improved to 4-1 against Milwaukee this season.

B3: 2021 #HLBASE Player of the Year, Quincy Hamilton, gets a 2 RBI triple to put @WSURaidergang in the lead!

MKE 0
WSU 2

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— Horizon League (@HorizonLeague) May 27, 2021

That's a Raider win!!

Haught with the strikeout to send Wright State into Friday with a win!#RaiderUP | #HLBASE | #Raidergang pic.twitter.com/sqq7j9qM84
— Wright State Baseball (@WSURaidergang) May 27, 2021