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MURRAY, Ky. -- Behind a career-high 11-strikeout effort from starting left-handed pitcher Dalton Stambaugh and two more home runs from junior first baseman Trevor Snyder, Morehead State baseball shut out Murray State 10-0 at Reagan Field Saturday.

The Eagles moved to 31-20 overall and 17-9 in the OVC to remain in second place. Stambaugh, whose previous career high for punchouts was eight, pitched 7.2 innings and did not issue a walk in improving to 5-3 on the season. Reliever JC Hatcher came on and also struck out three in not allowing a hit in the final four outs.

"Dalton commanded the strike zone and pitched ahead in the count, and that made a big difference since we didn't pitch very well on Friday night," said head coach Mike McGuire. "He typically does not walk many but for him to not walk any and have 11 punchouts is a special outing, and JC came in and pitched very effectively as well."

Meanwhile Snyder, who now is tied for the OVC lead with 17 home runs, got the scoring going early with a two-out, two-run blast over the left-field wall in the top of the first inning. He came back with a three-run homer in the sixth that just eluded the glove of a leaping Ryan Perkins in left field. Snyder added a sac fly for his six RBI after having a seven-RBI last weekend against Austin Peay. He moved his season RBI total to 63 and has now hit 11 Ruthian blasts against league pitching.

In between his long balls, the Eagles got an RBI double by junior right-fielder Jake Hammon and an RBI one-bagger by senior second baseman Braxton Morris. Morris upped his team-best season hit total to 84 with a 3-for-4 day. All three of his hits came on opposite field pokes against an infield shift that saw three Murray State defenders to the left of second base.

Niemann also added a sac fly in the ninth frame.

Eight of the nine Eagle starters had at least one hit and all nine reached base. Hammon, Snyder and Morris nailed three hits apiece. Junior shortstop Reid Leonard had a hit and drew his team-leading 46th walk, third highest single-season total in program history. That allowed him to extend his school-record reached-base streak to 43 games.

Luke Brown surrendered five runs in just 3.1 innings and was tagged with the loss to dip to 2-5.

The series rubber match is set for 2 p.m. ET Sunday here in Murray.