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CHARLESTON, Ill. - The Morehead State baseball team rallied from an eight-run deficit in the final two regulation innings Friday at Eastern Illinois, but an 11th-inning walk-off homer gave the Panthers a 9-8 win.

MSU, which trailed 8-0 heading into the eighth inning, fell to 25-18 overall and 12-7 in the OVC.

"We ultimately lost that game in extra innings, but we really lost in the first seven innings when we didn't do anything at the plate," said head coach Mike McGuire. "We needed to come out and score early and challenge EIU and we didn't. (Starting pitcher) T.J. (Satterly) was pitching great and cruising and we didn't give him any run support. We must come out tomorrow and change that."

In the eighth frame, MSU's bats finally ignited. Right-fielder Tyler Niemann led off with a double. Shortstop Reid Leonard moved him to third on a fly out. Niemann scored as pinch hitter Jake Hammon's fly ball to right field was misplayed. Designated hitter Bryce Hensor, who had walked, and Hammon then scored when first baseman Trevor Snyder crunched a single to center field.

Following a walk to center-fielder Connor Pauly, third baseman Eli Boggess crushed a two-run double to the right-field gap.

Niemann and Leonard walked to open the ninth frame, and Niemann scored on a wild pitch. Snyder then tied the game on a two-run single.

EIU starting pitcher Tyler Jones held the visitors to only three hits and no earned runs in 7.2 innings and struck out six before exiting in the eighth.

Meanwhile, Satterly cruised himself through five innings, allowing just a solo homer down the right-field line, but the hosts touched him up for four more runs in the sixth as they built a 5-0 lead. EIU tacked on three more in the sixth.

In the 11th, Frankie Perrone hit a one-out solo shot to left field as Cory Conway (5-3) was tagged with the loss despite pitching 2.2 innings and only giving up two hits.

Snyder finished 3-for-5 with four RBI. Leonard did draw the ninth-inning walk to extend his reached-base streak to 35 games, which is the longest on the squad in 2018.

The Eagles will look to even the series on Saturday when the teams tangle at 2 p.m. ET.