BOX SCORE
MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Morehead State freshman first baseman
Jackson Feltner had a pair of hits to extend his reached-base streak to 28 games and hitting streak to 19, but Murray State nailed six home runs and overpowered the Eagles 13-3 in seven innings at Allen Field Saturday.
Feltner, the nation's top true freshman hitter, had a double and single, while teammate
Stephen Hill drove in two runs with a single. Freshman left-fielder
Jacob Ferry drilled his sixth homer of the year. But three home runs from Murray's Jake Slunder, plus two long balls from Bennon McCullough, did the Eagles' pitcher in.
The Eagles still won the series 2-1. Murray's win halted a six-game winning streak for the Eagles in the all-time series.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Racers were ahead 4-0 after two frames. Slunder cranked a three-run homer in the second.
- In the bottom of the third, Ferry connected on a long blast over the right-field wall to make it 4-1.
- Murray State got a pair of two-run round-trippers from McCullough and Bryson Bloomer in the fifth.
- Hill got two runs off the deficit to make it 8-3 in the bottom of the fifth. He line shot skipped over the shortstop for a two-run single that scored senior second
Bryce Hensor and freshman shortstop
Colton Becker.
- McCullough and Slunder each homered again in the seventh as the Racers held off the Eagles to end the game with the run-rule on the last game of an OVC series.
NOTABLE
- Hensor also kept a hitting streak (13) and reached-base streak (18) intact with a single.
- Feltner now has a team-high 16 multi-hit efforts.
- Hill's two RBI represents his 10th multi-RBI game to rank second on the team.
- Starter
John Sherman was tagged with the loss, allowing six runs in 4.1 innings.
- Hensor scored once today, upping his OVC-best runs scored stat line to 45 this year.
UP NEXT
The teams meet again at Noon ET on Sunday at Allen Field, this time for a game not counting in the OVC standings.
