Fast Start Not Enough For Racers at Samford

Saturday, April 11

Birmingham, Ala.

2 p.m.

Murray State

14-21

Samford

16-17

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Murray State	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	3
Samford	0	0	1	2	2	0	5	0	X	10	11	0

4/11/2015 5:04:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

The Murray State baseball team scored a run in three of the first four innings Saturday at Samford, but it was not enough as the Racers fell to the Bulldogs 10-3 in game two of the series down in Birmingham, Ala.

The Racers (14-21) got on the board right away in the first inning with a Tyler Lawrence RBI single into center to bring home Matthew Johnson. It marked the 12^th time this season that the Racers have scored in the first inning and dropped them to 5-7 in such games. MSU went up 2-0 in the third inning with a Johnson RBI single up the gut to score Derek Yoder.

After Samford (16-17) cut the Murray State lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the third inning on a balk, the Racers went back up by a pair of runs with a Taylor Mathews sacrifice fly RBI in the fourth to score Lawrence. However, SU responded to tie the game with a two-run home run in the bottom of the inning and then took the lead for good with two runs in the fifth.

A five-run seventh inning for the Bulldogs busted the game wide open as Samford held the Racers to just one hit in the final five innings of the contest. SU collected 11 hits overall while MSU had just five as a team. Johnson and Lawrence compiled four of the five hits in the loss.

Brad Boegel took the loss in the start on the bump for Murray State. Boegel pitched five innings and allowed five runs, three of them earned, on seven hits and struck-out four batters. Brock Downey and Andrew Bramley pitched three innings of relief in the loss for the Racers.

The series finale is set for 1 p.m. Sunday. MSU is looking to avoid being swept for the first time since March 14-16 at SIUE.