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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Morehead State used a strong performance from its pitching staff to down LeMoyne 6-4 Sunday, in the Eagles' final game of the University of Evansville Dunn Hospitality Diamond Challenge. MSU rolled up four double plays, three of which ended innings and another coming with the bases loaded.
Quentin Morgan allowed just four runs, three earned, over five innings to pick up his second win of the season and second in as many starts.
Hunter Hewitt and
Cody Gibson teamed up to pitch four scoreless innings of relief, with Gibson picking up his third save of the season.
MSU got on the board early when
Drew Lee drove in #J.D. Ashbrook
in the top of the first. Ashbrook had walked to begin the game and advanced to third on a Daniel Pugh# walk and a wild pitch.
After the Dolphins scored two runs in their half of the first, MSU grabbed the lead for good with a three-run second inning.
Michael Fear and
Andrew Deeds singled to lead off the inning before
Travis Redmon doubled to drive in Fear. Ashbrook then singled to bring home Deeds and Redmon.
Morgan pitched out of jam in the second after loading the bases with no outs. The senior got Vincent Redmond to ground into a 5-2-3 double play and got Zach Wiley to fly out to center to escape the inning unscathed.
MSU put another run on the board in the fourth when
Taylor Davis drove in Ashbrook with a groundout.
LeMoyne battled back to within one with single runs in the fourth and the fifth, but could not find an answer for the tandem of Hewitt and Gibson. Each reliever allowed just one hit and Gibson got Wiley to tap back to the mound for a 1-6-3 double play to end the game.
MSU got an insurance run in the seventh, when an error by Paul Speicher on an Ashbrook ground ball allowed Fear to score.
Redmon and Fear each tallied two hits in the contest to lead MSU.
The win runs MSU’s record to 8-10 with a midweek contest at Tennessee looming on Wednesday.
