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MOREHEAD, Ky. – For the second consecutive night, the Morehead State baseball team won a rain-shortened contest against Alabama A&M. On Wednesday, MSU scored six times in the first inning and then hung on for an 11-8 victory in a game halted in the bottom of the sixth at Allen Field.
MSU, which defeated AAMU 15-4 Tuesday in the exact same scenario, won its seventh straight game to improve to 18-13. The seven-game success streak is the best in Head Coach Mike McGuire's three-year tenure. The Eagles also extended their school-record streak of scoring double-digit runs to eight games. The Bulldogs fell to 19-17.
The Eagles took advantage of control issues for AAMU starting pitcher Allen Belue. Belue, a senior right-hander, had not seen action in 2015 and walked the first batter before hitting the next three and making a quick exit. Senior leftfielder Nick Newell added a two-run double, and senior shortstop Robby Spencer drove in his team-high 40
th run in the six-run barrage.
Senior rightfielder Brandon Rawe, who extended his hitting streak to 12 games, crushed his fourth home run of the season and 18
th of his career to plate three more runs in the second. Rawe collected his fourth RBI of the evening in the third, and senior designated hitter Chris Robinson contributed an RBI single for an 11-2 lead.
The Bulldogs tagged MSU starter Patrick McGuff for four runs in the fourth and plated two more off reliever Matt Anderson to creep to within 11-8. Shortstop Jordan Friend connected on a three-run homer.
Morehead State had eight hits. Sophomore catcher Jimmy Wright and Robinson notched two each. Robinson now leads the squad with 15 multi-hit games and upped his batting average to .412.
Newell, Spencer and sophomore centerfielder Ryan Kent also lengthened their current hitting streaks to 10 contests.
Anderson was credited with the victory to improve to 2-1. He tossed the final 2.2 innings and struck out five. McGuff left with the lead intact but did not complete the required four innings to earn a win in a game of less than eight innings.
Belue only faced the first four batters and was pinned with the loss.
Morehead State opens a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series at UT Martin on Friday night at 7 p.m. ET. Michael Gustin will have free audio play-by-play of all three contests on MSUEagles.com and the Eagle Empire app.
