Dorsey and Hicks Combine to Throw One-Hitter as MSU Downs Brescia

Monday, March 19

Reagan Field

6 p.m.

Murray State

11-10

Brescia

5-17

Brescia

Murray State

Photo by: Dave Winder-Murray State Athletics

Dorsey and Hicks Combine to Throw One-Hitter as MSU Downs Brescia

3/19/2018 8:09:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Gray Dorsey and Caleb Hicks combined to throw a one-hitter Monday night at Johnny Reagan Field as Murray State defeated Brescia 10-0 in seven innings. The Bearcats got their lone hit of the game with two outs in the top of the seventh.

Dorsey got the win in his third start of the season as he allowed just one base runner in six innings of work. Dorsey struck-out a career-best five batters in the win. Hicks pitched the seventh, striking out a pair of batters.

MSU (11-10) jumped on Brescia (5-17) early, scoring three runs in the bottom of the first. A Ramsey Scott double to center field brought home two to get the Racers on the board early in the inning. In the next at-bat, Grant Wood got a sacrifice fly RBI to right field that brought home Scott to give MSU the 3-0 lead.

In the third, Ryan Perkins hit his first home run of the year as he sent a two-run shot to deep right center field to push the lead to 5-0. The Racers would able to add another run via sac fly in the bottom of the fourth, this one from Brandon Gutzler, which scored Tyler Duke from third and made it 6-0.

The Racers got a four-run fifth inning to bust the game open. Perkins opened the scoring as he came home on a passed ball by the Bearcats. Later in the inning, Jake Slunder reached on a fielder's choice that scored Jaron Robinson to make it 8-0. MSU rounded-out the scoring on an RBI groundout by Gutzler that scored Bryan Chilton while Slunder came home to score thanks to Brescia's third error of the contest.

Perkins and Robinson both had two-hit nights in the win with Perkins scoring twice. Gutzler was 1-for-3 with two RBIs and Scott went 1-of-2 with the two ribbies and scored twice. Duke also went 1-for-2 on the day.

MSU returns to action Wednesday as it travels to face Missouri State in Springfield, Mo., in a 3 p.m. contest.