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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Four Morehead State pitchers combined for 24 strikeouts, walked only five and surrendered just 10 hits on the day as Morehead State baseball split games on the second day of the Swig and Swine College Classic at Shipyard Park.

The Eagles shut out Ball State 3-0 in the opener behind sophomore Dalton Stambaugh and senior Kyle Cantu. In the nightcap, senior David Calderon and junior David Looney fanned 13 UMass Lowell hitters, but the Eagle bats only mustered one hit despite taking 15 free bases (13 walks and 2 hit batters) as MSU fell 2-1.

In the nightcap, senior second baseman Braxton Morris tied the school record with five walks taken.

"Very proud of our pitchers today," said head coach Mike McGuire. "After the first day and using eight guys, we needed those guys to step in and give us quality starts, and they did. The two guys out of the bullpen also came in and filled up the strike zone.

"I told our team, we probably could have won that (UML) game with no hits, but even with only one hit, our situational hitting was not good. I think it really turned there when we had bases loaded with no one out in the third and punched out twice and flew out. I think some guys did have quality at-bats, but we had too many guys who did not execute. Their (UML) pitchers, credit them too. They got out of a lot of jams where we could have easily got a hit, another walk or moved runners over with less than two outs and taken the lead."

MSU 3, BALL STATE 0

Stambaugh collected the win, going 7.0 innings and sitting down a career-best eight batters via strikeouts. He only gave up four hits and walked three. Cantu came on and tossed the final two for his first career save. He fanned three of the seven Cardinal batters he faced and allowed only one hit.

Morehead State broke through with a run in the first off BSU starter Nolan Gazouski. He struck out senior first baseman Tyler Niemann with two outs and the bases loaded, but the toss careened to the backstop and junior leftfielder Niko Hulsizer came home.

In the fourth, Hulsizer delivered an RBI on a ground out to third to score junior rightfielder Jake Hammon.

The Eagles tacked on their final run in the eighth when Hammon drew a bases-loaded free pass. Senior third baseman Eli Boggess led the hitters with two hits as MSU generated seven safeties.

UMASS LOWELL 2, MSU 1

UMass Lowell starter Henry Funaro (1-0), a freshman, walked eight batters but went through five without allowing a hit. Four other Riverhawk hurlers issued five more free passes, but Morehead State left 14 runners on base and struck out nine times.

Calderon (0-1) pitched seven frames and struck out a career-best nine. Looney, making his first pitching appearance at MSU and his first at all since last April, sat down four.

Down 2-0 in the ninth, junior designated hitter Adam Rapp broke up the no-hit bid with two outs and two strikes. He laced an RBI single to right field to score Boggess.

UML pushed ahead 2-0 with a run-producing single in the fifth and a solo homer in the seventh.

NEXT UP

The Eagles wrap up their time in South Carolina by facing Ball State at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday before traveling to face Western Carolina on Tuesday at 2 p.m.