SPRINGFIELD – Sophomore Clay Cleaver scored with two outs in the top of the 14th inning to boost Wilmington to the 8-7 non-conference victory over Wittenberg Thursday at Carleton Davidson Stadium.

Cleaver (Pleasant Plain, OH/Little Miami) tripled with two outs in the inning, leaving him a double shy of the cycle, and scored on a fielding error.  It was the first runs scored since both teams crossed the plate in the sixth inning.

Sophomore Corey Walker (Hillsboro, OH/Hillsboro) hurled 4 1/3 scoreless innings to improve to 2-6 on the season. He allowed four hits with five strikeouts in his relief stint. It was a part of 11 2/3 innings of work from the bullpen as the relieving corps allowed three runs on 12 hits. Sophomore Cole Voltz (Mt. Sterling, OH/Madison Plains) and sophomore Billy Foster (Xenia, OH/Xenia) both managed scoreless outings.

The teams battled back and forth for the first six innings, and seemingly every time Wilmington scored, the Tigers had an answer.

Wilmington opened the scoring with three straight singles in the first inning, the latter an RBI hit by junior Russ Neeley (Springboro, OH/Springboro) to score Cleaver. Wittenberg countered with individual runs in the first and second innings.

Neeley continued his hot hitting with a two-run shot in the third inning, but WU again answered with two runs in its half of the inning. The Fightin' Quakers tied the game with a run in the fifth, and once again Wittenberg retaliated with two to take the lead.

Back-to-back two-out walks in the sixth inning came back to haunt the Tigers as Cleaver took a 1-2 pitch out to right field. A two-out double by Wittenberg knotted the game at seven, and it stayed that way until WC dented the plate in the 14th.

Cleaver finished the game 3-for-7 with a triple, homerun, three runs scored and three RBI, and Neeley finished 2-for-6 with a homerun, run scored and three RBI. Senior Brandon Arehart (Wilmington, OH/Wilmington) was 3-for-7 with double, triple and two runs scored in the victory as the trio of Arehart, Neeley and Cleaver combined for eight of WC's 11 hits.

Wilmington (4-28 overall) ends the season 1 p.m. Saturday with an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader against Marietta. It will mark the final baseball game for Arehart, the team's lone senior.