Evansville Drops Racers

Wednesday, March 18

Evansville, Ill.

6 p.m.

Murray State

6-15

Evansville

8-8

Murray St.

Evansville

3/18/2015 9:34:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

A seven-run fourth inning and six-run eighth, propelled Evansville to a 15-2 victory Wednesday over the Murray State baseball team in Evansville. The Purple Aces (8-8) collected 15 hits and scored 10 of their runs with two outs in the inning.

For the 12^th time this season, the Racers (6-15) got on the board first as Tyler Lawrence grounded-out to the shortstop to bring in Pokey Harris in the top of the third inning to give MSU a 1-0 lead early on. Murray State falls to 4-8 this season when scoring first.

The lead did not last long as Evansville got a two-run single with two outs in the bottom half of the inning to take a 2-1 lead before pushing the advantage to 9-1 in the fourth with seven runs. All seven runs scored came with two outs in the inning.

A Taylor Mathews RBI single up the middle scored Nick Moore for the Racers' other run in the loss. Moore led-off the inning with his first triple of the season. Moore was the only Racer with multiple hits as he went 2-for-3 in the loss. UE would add six more runs in the eighth to extend its lead even more in the contest.

The Racers used six pitchers in the game, Sheldon Baxter got the start and was tagged with the loss in his first start of 2015. Baxter allowed three runs on three hits while striking-out four batters in three-plus innings of work. Tyler Anderson, Tanner Edge and Brandon Hicks all made scoreless relief appearances for the Racers in the loss.

MSU returns to action with its first home games of the season this weekend as Austin Peay comes to Reagan Field for a three-game OVC series. First pitch for Friday is set for 3 p.m.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Billo, Ryan (1-1)

L: Baxter, Sheldon (0-1)

Murray St.

Batting:

3B: Moore, Nick 1

RBI: Mathews, Taylor 1 ; Lawrence, Tyler 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Harris, Pokey 1 ; Moore, Nick 1

SB: Harris, Pokey 1

HBP: Harris, Pokey 1 ; Yoder, Derek 1

Evansville

Batting:

2B: Perry, Jarod 1 ; McKibban, Eric 1

3B: Kaczmarski, Kevin 1

RBI: Perry, Jarod 1 ; Showers, Shain 1 ; Kaczmarski, Kevin 2 ; Jyawook, Josh 3 ; McKibban, Eric 3 ; Williams, Korbin 1 ; Lipari, Billy 1 ; Tokarek, Travis 1 ; Nelson, Stewart 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Perry, Jarod 3 ; Showers, Shain 1 ; Kaczmarski, Kevin 2 ; Jyawook, Josh 2 ; Ramon, Jonathan 1 ; Sullivan, Tyler 1 ; McKibban, Eric 2 ; Tokarek, Travis 1 ; Nelson, Stewart 2