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WHITING, Ind. -- The top-seeded UIC baseball team (29-21-1) led for the majority of the semifinal contest against No. 2 seed Wright State (40-14) on Friday afternoon in the 2015 Horizon League Tournament, but a three-run homer by WSU's Ryan Fucci in the ninth frame proved to be the difference maker in an 8-5 Flames' defeat.

UIC will now play No. 3 seed Milwaukee at 4:15 p.m. CT on Friday afternoon in an elimination game. The winner will advance to Saturday play for a Noon matchup against Wright State.

Tyler Detmer led UIC at the dish by going 3-for-5 as Jeff Boehm and David Cronin tallied two hits apiece. Boehm also recorded three RBI in the contest and now owns 67 RBI on the year, which broke the program record for most RBI in a single-season.

Trevor Lane tossed seven innings and allowed eight hits with four earned runs. The junior lefty also fanned six WSU batters. Ryan Hinchley (3-2) was charged with the loss after giving up four earned runs in two frames and the winning home run to Fucci.

Trailing 5-4 in the top of the ninth, the Raiders began the final inning with a single up the middle by Mark Fowler as he was moved over to second base after a groundout. Derrek Garcia came in to pinch-run for Fowler and then Hinchley issued a walk to Horizon League Freshman of the Year Gabe Snyder. A pair of wild pitches by Hinchley would eventually send in Garcia and a hit-by-pitch to Jason DeFevers set the stage for Fucci's three-run bomb over the left field wall.

The Flames jumped in front 2-0 in the opening frame after Boehm drove in Zenon Kolakowski off a single to right center and then Mickey McDonald plated Tyler Detmer on a RBI-groundout. Detmer now owns 53 runs on the year, which ranks tied-for-ninth on UIC's single-season top-10 list.

The Raiders answered with a lone run in the top of the second and then knotted the score at 2-2 with another run in the fifth.

Boehm gave UIC a 4-2 advantage in the bottom of the fifth with a two-RBI double that hit off the center field wall, his 16th two-bagger of the season.

The Flames went ahead 5-2 after Conor Philbin doubled to right center to commence the bottom of the sixth frame. David Cronin sent Philbin across the dish with a single through the right side for his 33rd hit of the season, a mark that ranks fourth among all conference freshmen.

Wright State went on to plate six unanswered runs to advance to the title game.