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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- In a game that featured nine home runs, the Morehead State baseball team stormed back from a five-run deficit with eight runs in their final three at-bats as the Eagles upended Eastern Michigan 15-14 in game one of a doubleheader Saturday at Allen Field.

Trailing 13-8 heading into the seventh inning, Roman Kuntz started the fireworks with a three-run blast to center field. After Alex Jacobs singled, Nick Gooden followed with an RBI double to center field to bring MSU with within one. 

Headed to the eighth, pinch hitter and newcomer Max Power knotted the game with a leadoff solo shot to center field. After EMU retired two batters, Jackson Feltner singled, Jacobs was plunked and Gooden drew a walk. Brody Shoupe stepped in a delivered the go-ahead punch with a two-out, two-run single to left field.

John Bakke came on for the final three outs, allowing the ninth homer of the game, but coaxing a fly out and ground out to seal it.

Both team' offenses were in high gear early, scoring in every half inning until the bottom of the fifth for MSU and the top of the seventh for the EMU Eagles. MSU scored three times in the bottom of the fourth on a bases-loaded walk and two bases-loaded hit by pitches.

Jarrett Miller struck out two EMU batters in the eighth to be credited with the win and improve to 1-0. It was Bakke's second save.

Of the home team's 16 hits, five Eagles recorded multi-hit games. Feltner, Gooden and Chase Vinson all had three hits each. MSU also drew 10 walks