MOREHEAD, Ky.—Morehead State baseball rallied from an eight-run deficit to pull within one, but Jacksonville State scored 10 runs in the final two innings to defeat MSU 21-10 Saturday afternoon at Allen Field. The game was the OVC and regular season finale for both teams.
The Eagles honored their six seniors:
Drew Lee, #J.D. Ashbrook#,
Michael Bottoms,
Michael Fahs,
Quentin Morgan and
Hunter Hewitt prior to the game. Bottoms, Lee and Ashbrook were also presented with season awards. Bottoms was given the Steve Hamilton Pitcher of the Year award, and Ashbrook shared the Eddie Wallingford MVP award with Lee. Lee also was given the Sonny Allen Lifetime Achievement Award for breaking most of the MSU offensive career records.
The Gamecocks scored nine runs in the first two innings on four home runs to take a quick 9-2 lead. MSU tallied one run each in the first and second on a RBI single by
Daniel Pugh that scored Ashbrook and a RBI single by Ashbrook that plated
Michael Fear. MSU added a third run in the third inning on a solo home run by
Cameron Flynn.
JSU (29-24; 15-8 OVC) added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to extended the lead to 11-3 before the Eagles loaded the bases for
Andrew Deeds. Deeds jacked a grand slam over the right field fence to cut the Gamecock lead in half. Ashbrook then doubled to drive in Fear. Deeds added two more runs in the sixth with a RBI single to left that scored Lee and
Taylor Davis, dropping the JSU lead to just one.
The teams played through a scoreless seventh inning, but Jacksonville State hit three home runs in the eighth to tally eight runs. Two more runs in the ninth coupled with a pair of scoreless innings for the Eagles gave JSU the win.
Aaron Elias (2-1) earned the win for allowing 10 hits and six runs in a scheduled short performance of 4.1 innings. Alex Jones picked up his fifth save of the year for JSU. Morehead State starter
Tyler Hieneman (1-3) took the loss.
Ashbrook went 4-for-6 to lead the Eagles at the plate. Deeds and Fear had three hits apiece and Deeds had a team-high six RBI. Blake Seguin was 4-for-5 for the Gamecocks, who had three other players with three hits each. Kyle Bluestein tallied seven RBI.
Morehead State finished the season 24-25-1 and 6-12-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
