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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Despite a valiant effort at No. 22 Tennessee Tuesday night, the Morehead State baseball team came up short in falling 3-1 to the Vols at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
The Eagles (24-14) held the nationally-ranked UT (27-11)Â squad to only five hits. The Eagles did walk 10 batters but made sure not many of them scored. UT stranded 13 runners on base.
"When you are playing good teams with good arms, you have to take advantage of the opportunities you get," said head coach
Mike McGuire. "We had opportunities to score in the second, third and fourth with runners on and nobody out. We got sac bunts down but failed to execute behind them. I thought we pitched it pretty well considering the circumstances, but it was just a ballgame against a nationally-ranked club we let get away."
Senior catcher
Hunter Fain vaulted his team to a quick 1-0 lead two batters into the game. The Mount Clare, W.Va., native belted an offering from UT starter Camden Sewell more than 400 feet over the wall in left field, his team-best eighth blast of the season.
The home team managed to scratch across solo tallies in the second, third and fourth frames despite leaving 10 runners on base during that span.
MSU righty starter
Alex Garbrick (2-4)Â was saddled with the loss, being charged with seven walks.
Zack Smith,
Landon Weins,
David Looney,
Blake Preston and
Cory Conway all got work in on the mound too for the Eagle pitching staff.
Sewell, who walked three himself, was credited with the victory. He was the first of seven Vol pitchers on the night.
Senior shortstop
Reid Leonard did reach on an error to extend his reached-base streak to 35 games.
Morehead State returns to league action this weekend when Eastern Illinois visits. Game one of the three-game set is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET Thursday. It will be a Thursday-Saturday scheduled series due to the Easter holiday.
