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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Senior second baseman Braxton Morris' looping RBI single into right field proved to score the game-winning run, and reliever Cory Conway closed the door with three solid innings to lift the Morehead State baseball team to a 7-6 triumph over Austin Peay at Allen Field Sunday.

Morehead State moved to 12-6 in the OVC and 25-16 overall and avoided its first three-game series sweep since 2013.

"It started with a great outing from (starter) Kyle Cantu, and I thought Cory (Conway) pitched very well too," said head coach Mike McGuire. "We had not pitched well all weekend and ours backs were against the wall. Braxton had a really solid week at the plate and gave us a great boost today."

The Eagles fell behind 2-0 in the first inning but worked to eventually move ahead 6-2 after six frames. However, a pair of two-run round-trippers by APSU knotted the game at six in the seventh.

Morris, who was 4-for-5 at the plate for third time this week, lifted a two-out blooper that dropped into right field to score junior right-fielder Jake Hammon, who had reached on a fielder's choice bunt earlier and was moved around by a single from junior left-fielder Niko Hulsizer.

Hulsizer bombed his seventh home run of the year and 39th of his career to tie the game at 2-2 in the second. Senior first baseman Tyler Niemann got the Eagles on the board with a double in the same frame and added an RBI ground out in the third. Morris also ripped an RBI double down the left-field line in the sixth to make it 6-2.

Cantu pitched into the seventh inning, finally surrendering four runs, and picking up a no-decision. He struck out three but only gave up a first-inning home run before shutting out APSU for five straight frames. Conway (5-2) whiffed five and issued no walks.

Parker Phillips, Imani Willis and Nick Walker all cranked two-run homers out for the visitors.

Hulsizer, junior center-fielder Connor Pauly, senior DH Eli Boggess and junior shortstop Reid Leonard each collected two hits. Leonard increased his reached-base streak to 33 games and his hitting streak to 11 games.

Morehead State is set for a matchup at nationally-ranked Kentucky on Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. ET.