Box scores
Game 1: WSU 3, Detroit 1
Game 2:  WSU 8, Detroit 1

DAYTON, Ohio-- Host Wright State took both ends of a doubleheader against Detroit at WSU Softball Field Saturday afternoon in Horizon League action.  The Raiders got a late homer to help win the opener, 3-1, and a first-inning homer in game two to stake them to early lead en route to an 8-1 win.

Wright State's (13-17, 3-2) Krystian DeWitt won both games to improve her record to 10-15 overall.

GAME ONE
Detroit (7-21, 0-5 Horizon) got on the board first when Karyn McCarty hit a one-out double in the second inning and later scampered home on an error by the second baseman for a 1-0 Titan lead.  That margin held up until the third inning, when the home team got its first hit and scored a single run to knot the score.

The pitchers' duel continued until the bottom of the sixth inning, when WSU's Colleen Schneider hit a two-run homer to stake her team to a 3-1 lead that it would not relinquish.

Sara Cupp had two of Detroit's three hits in the opener.  Kat Hoffman took the loss, throwing six innings, scattering eight hits with two earned runs and four strikeouts.

GAME TWO
Detroit got the upper hand early in game two, thanks to some heads-up base running.  After Alyssa Schaub roped a single down the leftfield line, she took second when the ball squirted away on the throw back to the infield.  She advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Hoffman and came home on Cupp's grounder to second, beating the throw with a feet-first slide for a 1-0 Titan advantage.

WSU came right back in the bottom of the frame, however, with the big blow a two-out, three-run homer by Schneider to put the Raiders ahead 4-1.

That was enough for DeWitt, who allowed just a pair of singles in the second win while striking out seven.  Julia Maksym came on in relief of Hoffman in the first inning and threw 5.1 innings, allowing four runs with four strikeouts.

Schaub and Rachel Copple had the Titan hits in game two.

The teams conclude the series Sunday with a single game at noon.