DAYTON – The University of Dayton baseball team split its doubleheader with Davidson on Saturday, dominating game one by a 21-4 final and coming up short in a third slugfest 22-13 at Woerner Field at AES Ohio Stadium.
 
Both offenses enjoyed warmer weather and a brisk wind blowing out, as the Flyers and Wildcats combined for 95 runs on 95 hits with 20 home runs, but UD secured a series victory with its win in game one.
 
GAME ONE
Dayton 21 Davidson 4
Junior Dyrenson Wouters set a new career-high with five hits to lead the Dayton offense, while redshirt sophomore Bobby Stang slugged a pair of homers and drove in six, while Mason Dobie added his third long ball of the season in addition to a three-hit performance. Freshman Ty Mainolfi smacked his first career home run and finished the day with two RBI and two runs scored, and Michael DiMartini went 3-for-5 at the plate with a pair of runs scored and driven in.
 
Junior starter J.J. Gatti pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out seven while conceding just a pair of hits. 
 
The Flyers jumped ahead with a seven-run first and never looked back. Redshirt sophomore Bobby Stang kick-started the scoring with a three-run homer, and freshman Ty Mainolfi put the exclamation point on the inning with a two-run shot for his first career round-tripper.
 
Dayton kept the momentum going in the third inning by adding two more runs to the scoreboard, then put the game out of reach with a six-run fourth.
 
Dobie joined the homer party by smashing a two-run blast in the fourth, while the other four runs in the frame came home via RBI walks from Lujo and Stang, a wild pitch and a run-scoring single from DiMartini.
 
The FlyBoys added solo runs in the fifth and sixth innings, then plated four more in the seventh thanks to Stang's second homer of the day and RBI singles from Alejandro Cazorla and Wouters.
 
UD finished the game with 20+ hits for the second consecutive game.
 
GAME TWO
Davidson 22 Dayton 13
The Wildcats took a commanding lead out of the gate, scoring 11 runs over the first three innings of action including a seven-run second.
 
Dayton chipped away over the next few innings, plating three in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three more in the sixth. Davidson was able to keep pace through the middle innings, but never pulled away as UD scored three more in the home half of the eighth to bring the score to 16-13.
 
DC plated six more in the top of the ninth to put the game out of reach.
 
DiMartini and Lujo once again led the way for UD's offense, each collecting three hits while DiMartini scored three runs and Lujo drove in four.
 
Sophomore Adin Zorn hit his second home run of the season, while Lujo and Wouters stayed hot with each hitting a homer.
 
UP NEXT
The Flyers return to Woerner Field at AES Ohio Stadium to face the Akron Zips on Tuesday at 3 p.m.