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LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Seniors Braxton Morris and junior Reid Leonard both extended lengthy hitting or reached-base streaks, but it came on the short end of a 12-0 setback to close the series at Kansas Saturday.

MSU slipped to 16-13 overall. Kansas is now 17-11 as it took the first and third games of the series.

"I think we did show that we can play with teams like Kansas this weekend," said hed coach Mike McGuire. "Today, I felt like we had a chance to take an early lead and we didn't and Dalton (Stambaugh) didn't pitch as well as the first two starters did. Had we not left runners in scoring position in those early innings, it might have been different."

Morris, the Eagle second baseman, had a first-inning single to extend his reached-base streak to 30 games and his hitting streak to 24 games. Leonard had a hit and a pair of walks and now owns a 21-game reached-base streak.

The hosts scored twice in the second, fifth, sixth and eighth innings and busted the game open with a four-spot in the fourth. They had three players with three hits on the day.

Morehead State finished with just four hits.

Stambaugh (4-3) allowed eight runs, seven earned, and struck out five in 4.2 innings. Ryan Zeferjahn went the first eight frames to improve to 5-1.

Morehead State returns to action on Tuesday, hosting Marshall at 5 p.m. ET.