Murray State
4-8
Northern Kentucky
7-4
Huge Seventh Inning Fuels Racers to Series Win
3/5/2023 8:14:00 PM | Baseball
Murray State baseball took game three of their series with NKU 10-5 to secure their first series win of the year
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Outfielder Dustin Mercer and second baseman Logan Bland each led the MSU offense with three hits apiece. Ethan Krizen got the scoring started for MSU on a second-inning three-run home run, his first at Murray State.
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Brennan McCullough belted his second home run of the season in the fifth inning to regain the lead for MSU after the Norse had leveled the scoring at three.
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In the seventh inning, the Racer bats caught fire, plating five runs in the inning capped by a two-RBI double by Taylor Howell to score Mercer and Cade Sammons.
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Thomas McNabb earned the win after going for 3.1 innings pitched in relief. McNabb allowed just one earned run while striking out three before giving way to Nathan Holler. In his second of back-to-back days in relief, Holler tossed a scoreless inning while striking out two.
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Ben Krizen closed out the win for MSU after tossing 1.1 scoreless innings and striking out three Norse batters.
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Murray State will get its next challenge on Tuesday when they travel to Lexington, Ky for a matchup with Kentucky. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. CT. Â
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mcnabb, Thomas (1-0)
L: Joey Perkins (1-1)
Batting:
RBI: Manny Vorhees 2 ; Noah Fisher 1 ; Liam McFadden-Ackman 1 ; Colton Kucera 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Treyvin Moss 1 ; Manny Vorhees 1 ; Noah Fisher 1 ; Cleary Simpson 1 ; Brandon Tucker 1
SB: Treyvin Moss 2 ; Bryce Miller 1
HBP: Manny Vorhees 1 ; Cleary Simpson 1
PO: Colton Kucera 1
Batting:
2B: Howell, Taylor 1 ; Bland, Logan 1
HR: McCullough, Brennan 1 ; Lyke, Ethan 1
RBI: Sammons, Cade 1 ; Mercer, Dustin 1 ; Howell, Taylor 2 ; McCullough, Brennan 2 ; Hawthorne, Riley 1 ; Lyke, Ethan 3
SH: Estes, Parker 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sammons, Cade 1 ; Mercer, Dustin 2 ; McCullough, Brennan 1 ; Pennington, Jacob 2 ; Hawthorne, Riley 2 ; Lyke, Ethan 1 ; Bland, Logan 1
SB: Sammons, Cade 1
HBP: Howell, Taylor 1
