Baseball to Visit Tech to Wrap Up Season

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Morehead, Ky. -- The Morehead State baseball team wraps up the 2026 regular season as it hits the road to take on Tennessee Tech in the final three games of the season at Quillen Field at Bush Stadium in Cookeville, Tennessee. First pitch Thursday and Friday is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET. The series finale Saturday is scheduled for a 2:00 p.m. ET, first pitch. All three games are scheduled to be aired on ESPN+.
 
It will be the last conference series between the two long-time rivals: Tennessee Tech is joining the Southern Conference this summer and ending its membership in the OVC it has held since 1949.
 
Morehead State is coming off a sweep of Western Illinois last weekend in a trio of tight games. The Eagles piled up eight runs in first two innings in the series opener Friday night and held on for a 10 8 win. MSU starter Callum McGill ran his record to 2-0 throwing into the seventh inning allowing five runs on eight hits and striking out five.
 
Saturday, MSU got an outstanding pitching performance from sophomore Landon Waugh who scattered seven hits and notched a career high nine strikeouts in a 4-3 complete game win. JJ Dutton provided the game-winning hit with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth 
 
Sunday, the Eagles once again built an early lead and hung on for the win. Morehead State led 6-0 through six innings and Western Illinois hung up three runs in both the seventh and eighth innings to draw even. The Eagles put up two in the bottom of the eighth and hung on for an 8-7 win. MSU starter Connor Davis provided a quality start throwing six shutout innings allowing five hits and striking out three WIU batters.
 
Tennessee Tech battled Lindenwood in a tight series in St. Charles, Missouri. After dropping the first two games 6-5 and 4-3, Tech salvaged the series finale 4-3 in another closely contested game.  
 
Morehead State enters the final week of play tied with Lindenwood for fifth place in the conference standings. The Eagles and the Lions are three games behind Southeast Missouri and Eastern Illinois, who are tied for third place in the standings at 15-9. They are two games ahead of UT Martin who is alone in seventh at 10-14 in conference play.
 
Tennessee Tech, at 6-18 in conference play, is in last place in the standings but have not been eliminated from the OVC tournament (only the top eight teams in the standings advance to the postseason). Should the Golden Eagles sweep Morehead State and Southern Indiana and Western Illinois get swept, TTU would qualify for the eight seed.
 
RECORDS/ STREAK

Morehead State           28-23, 12-12 OVC / W 4
Tennessee Tech           18-34, 6-18 OVC / W 1
 
SERIES
 

• Morehead State has an all-time record of 96-83-1 against Tennessee Tech.
• Last season the Eagles dropped two of three in Morehead. The last time the teams met in Cookeville, also dropped two of three games.
• In Morehead, MSU is 50-40. In Cookeville, MSU is 40-44-1

The last three series game-by-game:

May 17, 2025                L, 26-15 (8) in Morehead
May 16, 2025                L, 27-11
May 15, 2025                W, 5-4
April 7, 2024                  L, 5-4 in Cookeville
April 6, 2024                  L, 15-0
April 5, 2024                  W, 9-2
April 2, 2023                  W, 4-3 (7 inn.) in Morehead
April 2, 2023                  W, 10-7
April 1, 2023                  L, 17-2
 
NOTABLE
 

• Morehead State ranks second in the Ohio Valley Conference with a team batting average of .310. The Eagles also rank second in the conference in hits (548), runs (397), and home runs (77).
• The Eagles average 7.8 runs per game and 10.7 hits per game.
• When the Eagles have out-hit their opponents, they are 20-5. When they were out-hit, they posted a 5-17 record. When hits were even, they posted a 3-1 mark.
• Morehead State pitching has hit 97 batters this season; that's tied for 22^nd-most in Division I.
• Morehead State has posted a record of 19-5 when it has held its opponents to six runs or less. When MSU's opponents have scored eight runs or less, the Eagles have posted a 25-10 mark.
• Aubrey Kearns leads Morehead State hitting .386, ranking third in the Ohio Valley Conference and tied for 26^th in Division I. He has hit safely in 43 of the Eagles' 51 games. He has 78 hits this season, second-most in the OVC and tied for 12th in the country.
• Kearns' 56 runs batted in ranks fifth in the OVC.
• Ian McCubbin had his eight-game hitting streak snapped last Sunday at Little Rock. That game also snapped a 27-game reached base streak, the longest of the season on the club. He bounced back with hits in the last four outings, going 8-17 last week with a home run, two doubles and nine runs batted in.  
• McCubbin had a hot April, going 28-69 (.406) raising his average 51 points in the month to .366, He piled up seven home runs, four doubles and triple and drove in 23 runs.
• McCubbin's .367 average ranks tied for fifth in the OVC. His .412 average in conference play is the third highest in the OVC.
• Griffin Olson is hitting .326, the third-highest average on the team. He was also hot in April, going 26-59 at the plate (.441) with seven doubles, a triple and 13 RBI. He raised his average 81 points in the month.  
• Olson is hitting .391 in conference play, fifth highest in the league. He is second on the team with 17 stolen bases in 21 attempts this season. That's tied for 8^th-most in the OVC.
• Davis Germann had a big week last week, going 8-15 at the plate with three home runs and three doubles with five RBI and 14 runs scored. He is riding a six-game hitting streak and has reached safely in each of the last 13 games, the club's longest current streak.
• Germann leads MSU with 17 doubles; that's tied for second-most in the OVC.
• Projected Friday starter Callum McGill earned his second win of the season against Western Illinois last Friday. He pitched into the seventh inning allowing five runs on eight hits. He walked three and struck out five WIU batters.
• McGill had the best outing of his career two weeks back at Little Rock. He took a no-hitter into the fifth inning and ended up giving up three hits in seven shutout innings. He walked three batters and struck out four.
• Devin Costa picked up his fifth win of the season last Friday at Little Rock. He got the final five outs of the game for Morehead State. He faced six batters allowing one hit and notched a strikeout. His 4.46 ERA is third on the team.
• Projected Saturday starter Landon Waugh sparkled last Saturday against Western Illinois, getting a complete-game win notching a career-high strikeouts while scattering seven hits.
• Waugh was also solid in his start two weeks back at Little Rock. He no-hit the Trojans through the first four innings; the Trojans got two runs off of him in the fifth. He threw six innings (he faced two batters in the seventh) allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits and four walks with one strikeout.
• Projected Sunday starter Connor Davis had a quality start Sunday against Western Illinois. He threw six shutout innings allowing five hits. He walked four and struck out three Leatherneck batters.
• Davis was solid in his start at Little Rock two Sundays back: he scattered four hits in his first five innings. He was touched up in the sixth and ended up allowing four runs on six hits. He struck out two.