CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Morehead State baseball fell 9-1 in the opener before succumbing 7-6 in an 11-inning thriller in an OVC doubleheader at Austin Peay Friday.

The Eagles dipped to 23-13 now and 8-6 in the Ohio Valley Conference, while APSU improved to 18-15 and 10-6 in the league.

GAME 1

A bases-clearing double in the first-inning set the tone for the host team as they built a 3-0 advantage and then rode the complete-game effort by Jacques Pucheu.

Pucheu struck out eight and scattered six hits.

The Eagles' lone run came off the bat of senior left-fielder Jake Hammon in the top of the fifth. Hammon's Texas League single to center field was enough to score junior second baseman Dom Peroni was second base.

Senior catcher Hunter Fain led the Eagles with two hits, including a double.

Junior lefty Dalton Stambaugh was tagged with the loss to fall to 4-2. He fanned nine but also issued five walks and hit a batter, giving up five earned runs in five innings.

Garrett Spain, a freshman outfielder for the Govs, had a 3-for-4 day with the three-run double and a solo home run.

GAME 2

The contest remained a scoreless stalemate until the bottom of the fifth when the Govs executed three straight hit-and-run plays perfectly which resulted in three runs.

Parker Phillips nailed a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth.

MSU finally got on the board in the seventh. Junior second baseman Ryan Layne doubled to lead off and scored on freshman Zach Boyd slashed a pinch-hit double down the right-field line, his first career extra base hit. He scored later on Fain's sac fly.

But the Govs got the two runs right back in the bottom of the inning on a sac fly and a two-out throwing error by Layne.

Boyd tattoed a two-out, three-run double off the wall in right center in the top of the eighth to bring his team to within 6-5, and then Hill blasted a shot up the middle to plate Boyd with the game-tying run.

The teams battled for the next three innings before the Govs finally got the walk-off win in the bottom of the 11th with one out on a hard ground ball to first that resulted in an errant throw trying to cut down the winning run.

Leonard, Hammon and Layne all had two hits apiece as the Eagles put up 12 on the board. Leonard's reached-base streak moved to 33 by reaching in both games.

NEXT UP

The Eagles and Govs will wrap up their series on Saturday with a 2 p.m. ET first pitch.