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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Junior outfielders
Ryan Kent and
Will Schneider each totaled five RBI, and the Morehead State baseball team scored in every inning but the first Wednesday night in a 15-3 victory over West Virginia Tech at Allen Field.
The Eagles, who have now won three straight, improved to 24-18 overall. WVU-Tech fell to 34-14.
Kent got the scoring going in the second inning with a two-run single through the left side and closed it out with a three-run double to left center in the eighth. In between, Schneider, who now has a team-best 19 multi-hit efforts, tallied a two-run triple in the fourth and a bases-clearing double in the seventh.
"We got quality at-bats throughout the entire game and the entire lineup," said head coach
Mike McGuire. "We were set up right away in the first inning but came away empty, but
Ryan Kent got us going with a two-out hit, and hitting is contagious. I thought we also pitched effectively. We were able to use several guys, but no one pitched so much that they aren't available this weekend for our OVC series."
The Eagles put together multiple-run frames in the second, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth innings, despite never scoring more than three in any one inning.
"Sometimes we have a huge inning like seven or eight runs, but then we don't get much else in the other at-bats. Tonight I thought we did a good job of driving in runs continuously. Tonight, we rarely had that bad at-bat we sometimes get with runners on base," McGuire said.
Freshman catcher
Hunter Fain extended his team and league-high reached-base streak to 31 with a third-inning walk and crushed his second career home run,a two-run clout, in the fifth. Kent and freshman designated hitter
Trevor Snyder led an 18-hit attack with three each. Snyder had RBI singles in the third and sixth stanzas.
The Golden Bears' only runs came in the fifth when they took advantage of a throwing error on a bunt attempt to score twice and added a sacrifice fly.
Junior lefthander
Curtis Wilson peppered the strike zone with 33 Ks on 40 pitches in a three-inning assignment and was credited with the win to improve to 2-4. He was the first of five Eagle hurlers. Heath Utterback, the second of eight WVU-T pitchers, gave up the first two runs and fell to 0-1.
Morehead State hosts Austin Peay for a three-game set starting Friday at 5 p.m. ET.
