COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Five Morehead State pitchers combined to allow just six Tennessee Tech hits, and the offense saw three batters with two hits apiece as the Eagle baseball team claimed the series with a 4-3 win at Tech's Averitt Express Complex Friday night.

The Eagles won their sixth straight game, 12th in the last 14 overall, and reached the 30-win mark (following just 14 wins in 2025). MSU also moved to 14-12 in the OVC, remaining in fifth place and guaranteeing a winning league final record. MSU has now won 30 games in eight of the past 12 seasons.

Starter Landon Waugh pitched the first two frames with just one run allowed and was credited with the win to improve to 3-4. Lefty Kam Hawks tossed the middle three frames, being charged with two runs despite only surrendering one hit. Sam Smith, Jacob Vanover and Cole Wells shut out Tech for the final five frames. Wells earned his second save in as many games.

The Eagles spotted the home team a 1-0 advantage in the bottom of the first but quickly erased the deficit for good. In the second, first baseman Alex Kean rapped a two-out double. Right-fielder Austyn Peak then lifted his second home run of the year just over the wall in right field for a 2-1 lead.

MSU tacked on two more in the third for a 4-1 lead. Following center fielder Davis Germann's ground-rule double to right field, second baseman Aubrey Kearns tattooed a double of his own to left to score Germann. Shortstop Jaden Correa followed with an RBI single into center field to plate Kearns.

Tech crept back in it in the fourth when Connor Crowson belted a two-run long ball. Tech put runners in scoring position in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings but each time, the Eagle pitchers rose to the rask of stopping the threat.

Germann, Kearns and Kean each had a pair of hits as MSU lit the hit column on the scoreboard 10 times.

The teams will conclude the regular season on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. Tech's season will conclude as it has been eliminated from the OVC Tournament. An MSU win, coupled with a Lindenwood loss at Southern Indiana, would secure the fifth seed for the Eagles for next week's event in Marion, Ill.

NOTABLE

* MSU's two wins signaled the first series win at Tech for the program since 2022.
* Germann upped his reached-base streak to a team-best 15.
* Kean now has five hits in the first two games of the series.
* DH/Catcher Caden Sheridan had a stolen base, giving MSU 96 successful swipes this season. That's the most for the program since 2007.