By Matt Schabert, Morehead State Athletic Media Relations
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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Mother nature appears ready to deliver some inclement weather to Kentucky this week, so the Morehead State baseball team has moved its two-game series with Alabama State to Montgomery, Ala. The teams were originally set to play Tuesday and Wednesday at Allen Field.
The Tuesday game is set for 5 p.m. ET with Wednesday's contest at 2 p.m.
The Hornets are 12-8 overall and are coming off a series win over Jackson State this past weekend, a team the Eagles split with last week. Morehead State enters the week 11-9 overall and winners of four straight.
PITCHING MATCHUPS
Game 1: RHP Channing Walker (ASU) vs. RHP
Kyle Cantu (MSU)
Game 2: LHP Ivanniel Vazquez (ASU) vs. RHP
Will Lozinak (MSU)
GAME NOTES
WE MEET AGAIN
Morehead State and Alabama State are meeting for the second straight year. Last year, the Eagles defeated the Hornets on consecutive days (8-1 and 7-5) in Hoover, Ala.
A CALL TO ARMS
Morehead State's pitching staff has really answered the bell in the last week. In the past six games, the Eagle pitchers have not allowed more than four earned runs in any game.The staff has also recorded 55 strikeouts in the past six contests.
THEY CALL HIM THE STREAK
Senior second baseman
Braxton Morris enters this week's games carrying a 15-game hitting streak, and during that streak has nine multi-hit games. Morris is leading the Eagles in overall batting average at .440, a figure which leads the entire Ohio Valley Conference.
THE STREAK PART 2
Morris also owns a reached-base streak of 21 games, including all 20 games this season. Three other players own double-digit reached-base streaks. Juniors
Trevor Snyder (13) and
Reid Leonard (12), along with freshman
Bryce Hensor (11) have reached base every game in the last three weeks.
CON-MAN
Redshirt freshman left-hander
Cory Conway faced 13 batters in three games week and recorded outs on every one of them. He collected his first career win, tossing 1.2 innings, in the first Belmont game last week and then came back to record his first career save in the series sweeping win Saturday. Conway struck out three and retired all seven batters.
NICE BRYCE
Bryce Hensor put together a productive week, going 11-for-19 (.579) in the Eagles' five games. He was a tough out for Belmont on Friday, going 6-for-7 with a walk, in the two wins.
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