MOREHEAD, Ky. – Looking to take its first Ohio Valley
Conference series of the season, the Tennessee Tech baseball team
dropped the ball. The Golden Eagles committed eight errors, and
Morehead State scored in all eight innings that it batted, beating
Tech 12-7, and taking the series two games to one.
Tech (13-12, 1-7) scored four runs in the last three innings, but
it wasn’t enough to overcome the seven run lead Morehead
State had built.
Evan Webb, Casanova Donaldson and Trice Powers each had two hits in
the game, and Cory Wright had two RBIs, as the Tech offense pieced
together 12 hits, but seven unearned runs for MSU were too many to
erase. Donaldson and Ben Burgess each extended their current
hitting streaks to four games, and Powers hit his second home run
of the season.
Morehead State (10-18, 3-6) got on the board early, scoring two
runs in the first inning. After Tech tied it with a pair of runs in
the top of the second, MSU added a run in the bottom of the second
and third, and two in the fourth. The Golden Eagles got one run
back in the top of the fifth, but gave up three more in the bottom
of the inning, and allowed one each in the sixth, seventh and
eighth.
Sophomore A.J. Kirby-Jones got the start for Tech, and pitched 4.1
innings, giving up nine runs off nine hits in the loss, but only of
those nine runs were earned. Chad Oberacker pitched 1.2 innings,
and Burgess threw the final two.
Morehead State’s JD Ashbrook and Eric Bainer each had three
hits in the contest and each had multi-RBI games, as Ashbrook
finished with 2 RBIs, and Bainer tallied three.
The two teams split a double header on Saturday, with Tech wining
17-16 in 10 innings, and Morehead State taking a 2-1 decision in
the seven-inning night cap.
The Golden Eagles continue their OVC action with a three-game
series against Eastern Kentucky in Cookeville on April 10 (DH) and
11.