Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
From the first pitch to leadoff hitter Damon Dues on Saturday afternoon, Wright State mashed its way to the NCAA Division I baseball regionals for the eighth time.
Dues singled on that first pitch, and he and the rest of the Raiders kept on hitting … and hitting … and hitting … and Dues hit for the cycle by the sixth inning. And the Raiders — the highest-scoring team in the nation — won the Horizon League tournament with a 21-3 victory over Milwaukee at Nischwitz Stadium.
The Raiders will learn of their NCAA destination at noon on Monday, which will be their first appearance since 2018.
“Honestly, I think we’re a sleeping giant,” Dues said. “Sogard’s told us that – we all believe it. We can go do something.”
The Raiders (35-11) have never won a four-team regional.
“I think we can make some noise in the regional no doubt,” head coach Alex Sogard said. “We talked this whole year about trying to do something that’s never been done in this program and that’s win a regional.”
