'Cats Blast Their Way Past Dayton, Will Go for Sweep Sunday

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Five Wildcats homered Saturday, and Davidson clinched at least a series win with a 12-9 victory over Dayton at Wilson Field.

Entering Sunday's fourth series game, the Wildcats (19-9) have won 10 straight — including 2-1 and 10-8 games with the Flyers on Friday — and 14 of their last 15. And their home winning streak has reached 21 games, one shy of nation-leading Wright State, which is idle this weekend.

On Saturday, Ruben Fontes and Trevor Candelaria hit back-to-back solo home runs in the third inning to put Davidson ahead, and Henry Koehler, John Hosmer and Jacob Hinderleider added two-run shots to keep the Wildcats in front.

Blake Hely threw six innings and struck out nine, while allowing four earned runs, and Nolan DeVos recorded the final five outs, including three strikeouts, to notch his seventh save and fifth in two weeks.

Saturday's win also included a 40-minute lighting delay between the eighth and ninth innings.

"A lot of guys had productive at-bats and did things well on the bases," said Wildcats coach Rucker Taylor. "We played solid defense most of the day. Blake was able to extend his outing a little, and that was helpful. Nolan did a nice job at the end after the delay."

Fontes and Hosmer now lead the Wildcats with seven home runs apiece. Fontes' solo blast to lead off the third broke a 3-3 tie, and Candelaria followed by belting the ball high down the left field line and into the trees. Koehler's round-tripper made it 7-3 in the fifth, and Hosmer's sixth-inning homer down the line in left extended the lead to 9-3. After Dayton rallied with five runs in the seventh, Hinderleider homered for the second game in a row and pushed the Wildcats' lead to 11-8. Candelaria added an RBI-single in the eighth to finish the day with three RBIs.

Alex Fedje-Johnson led off the first with a triple off the wall, and it was the only hit in a three-run Wildcats' first.

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The series finale is set for Sunday at 1 p.m. at Wilson Field.

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