Wright State one victory away from NCAA baseball tournament berth

Centerville grad hits two of team’s four home runs

Centerville High School graduate Quincy Hamilton hit two home runs and drove in five runs to lead the Wright State Raiders to a 15-4 victory against Illinois-Chicago on Friday in the semifinals of the Horizon League tournament at Nischwitz Stadium.

Wright State, the top seed, will need to win one game Saturday to win the championship and claim the league’s NCAA tournament berth.

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The Raiders (34-11) will play No. 2 Illinois-Chicago or No. 4 seed Milwaukee at noon Saturday. Those teams play an elimination game Friday night.

If the Raiders lose the noon game Saturday, there will be a second and deciding game between the same teams at 4 p.m.

After a 4-3 victory in the first round Thursday against Milwaukee, the Raiders had no trouble with Illinois-Chicago, taking control with six runs in the second inning. Tyler Black hit a three-run home run to cap the scoring in that inning.

Sammy Sass went 3-for-4 and hit a three-run home run in the seventh.

Hamilton, a redshirt junior outfielder, hit a two-run home run in the fourth and a three-home run in the eighth.

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