Racers Bully Bulldogs With 23 Hits

Tuesday, May 1

Reagan Field

6 p.m.

Murray State

20-24

Alabama A&M

10-36

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Alabama A&M	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	3
Murray State	2	3	1	0	2	0	2	3	X	13	23	0

Photo by: Dave Winder-Murray State Athletics

5/1/2018 9:32:00 PM | Baseball

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Murray State pounded out a season-best 23 hits Tuesday night at Reagan Field as the Racers defeated Alabama A&M in non-conference action, 13-5. The win closes a five-game home stand for the Racers over the past week.

Grant Wood led seven Racers with multiple hits in the win as he tallied a career-high five hits at the plate to go along with four runs scored and three RBIs. Bryan Chilton also had a career-high on the night, going 4-for-5 with a double and his first career home run. Davis Sims went 3-for-6 at the dish with two runs and extended his on-base streak to 40 in a row while Mike Farnell was 3-of-5 with a pair of ribbies. Ryan Perkins, Jaron Robinson and Ramsey Scott all had two hits each in the victory.

AAMU (10-36) struck first in the contest as it scored a pair of runs in the top of the first inning. MSU (20-24) would soon respond however with RBI hits from Farnell and Scott in the bottom half of the frame. In the second, MSU scored three runs to go up 5-2 as Wood's second double of the night scored two and he would later come around to score in the inning.

After the Bulldogs tied the score at 5-5 with a three-run homer in the third, MSU took the lead for good in the bottom half of the inning on Jaron Robinson's fourth home run of the season, this one to left center field. The Racers would make it 8-5 with Chilton's homer and another Wood RBI hit in the fifth.

In the seventh, MSU got another pair of runs when Scott grounded into a double play that scored Wood and then on a Perkins double to right brought home Sims and it was 10-5 Racers. MSU tacked on three more runs in the eighth on an unearned run by Tyler Duke and then back-to-back RBIs from Farnell and Caleb Hicks.

Braydon Cook got the win in relief for the Racers. Cook came on in the third for starter Blake Clynes. Connor Holden was great in three scoreless innings out of the bullpen as he struck-out two and allowed just one hit. Peyton Hayes had two strikeouts as well in two innings of work and Farnell closed things out in the ninth for the Racers.

MSU will now return to road action and OVC play as it travels to face Eastern Kentucky in a three-game series beginning Friday at 5 p.m., central time.