Eagle Baseball to Travel to Lexington to Take On No. 18 Kentucky Tuesday

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Morehead, Ky. -- Morehead State travels to the Bluegrass to take on the 18^th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats Tuesday in Kentucky Proud Park. First pitch is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. The game can be seen on the SEC+ Network.
 
Morehead State's season-opening series last weekend was moved to George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, Ky., due to Allen Field remaining unplayable after the winter storm that swept through the region.
 
After dropping the season-opener 7-4 to UMass Lowell Friday, Morehead State swept its doubleheader with the River Hawks Saturday. The Eagles took the first game 3-2, with redshirt junior Carter Owens getting the win out of the bullpen. Owens threw two innings, allowing just two hits and striking out one. Devin Costa got the save, allowing no hits and notching one strikeout in two innings pitched.
 
Game two on Saturday proved to be a wild affair and the Eagles overwhelmed the River Hawks 22-10. MSU starter Connor Davis, a freshman from Cincinnati, got the win. He threw four innings, scattering four hits and allowed one earned run.
 
Kentucky opened its 2026 campaign sweeping its three-game series at UNC Greensboro. The Wildcats won the opener Friday 13-2, then swept the doubleheader Saturday 11-3 and 10-6. UK batters notched five triples in the series and stole 23 bases out of 23 attempts.

Lexington native Carter Owens is scheduled to get the start for Morehead State. Morehead native Chase Alderman is scheduled to start for Kentucky.
 
NOTABLE

• Sophomore catcher Caden Sheridan started 52 of the Eagles' 53 games last season. Sheridan played five defensive positions: catcher, first base, second base, right field and center field. He also was slotted in as the designated hitter in seven contests in 2025.
• Sheridan was an OVC All-Freshman Team selection in 2025. He slashed .265/.410/.361. He led the Morehead State and ranked 10^th in the OVC with 14 doubles. Behind the plate Sheridan threw out 12 base stealers, the fifth-most in the OVC.
• Sheridan was solid in the season-opening series with UMass Lowell. He went 5-11 (.455) with a home run and two doubles with three RBI.
• Newcomer Ian McCubbin made a good first impression on Morehead State fans. He went 5-10 at the plate with two home runs and six RBI. Last season at South Arkansas College, he hit .298 with three homers, 12 doubles and two triples. He posted a .816 OPS.
• Returning senior JJ Dutton led Morehead State with a .340 batting average in 2025, ranking eighth in the OVC. He raised his batting average 140 points from March 1 to the end of the season. He led the Eagles with four triples last season, tied for the second-highest total in the OVC.
• Dutton extended his reached-base streak to 32 games Saturday when he went one for two in the second game of the doubleheader.
• Sophomore Aubrey Kearns had a solid start to the 2026 season last weekend. After getting a hit in the opener Friday, he got starts in both games Saturday.  The Nicholasville, Kentucky native finished the weekend with five hits in 11 at bats (.455) with a home run and three runs batted in.
• Freshman center fielder Kyle Krupp was solid in the Eagles' opening weekend, rapping out five hits in 12 at bats with a double and a triple and drove in three runs from the leadoff position in all three games.
• Morehead State hit .280 as a team last season, ranking fourth in the OVC.
• MSU's 884 total bases were the second-most in the OVC in 2025. MSU's senior catcher Hunter Thomas led the OVC with 143.
• Morehead State slugged 76 home runs, second in the conference, just behind SIUE with 77. Thomas tied for the conference lead with 19 round-trippers.