Marshall University Athletics
Marshall University
Morehead State
Baseball Drops Game At Morehead State, 15-6
4/13/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 13, 2010
MOREHEAD, Ky. - The Marshall University baseball team scored four times in the fifth to pull within two runs, but Morehead State scored seven more times the rest of the game to defeat the Thundering Herd 15-6 on Tuesday afternoon in non-conference action at Allen Field.
Marshall (13-18) totaled 15 hits on the afternoon, including a four-hit, three-run scoring effort from SS Kenny Socorro. Kurt Lipton went 3-for-4 at the dish with a double, while Victor Gomez, Josh Valle and Nathan Gomez chipped in with a pair of base knocks. One of V. Gomez's hits was a three-run homer, as the Herd cleanup hitter drove in four runs on the day.
Morehead State (19-17) totaled 20 hits, which included a 5-for-5 day from leadoff hitter J. D. Ashbrook.
The Marshall bats came out cracking against MSU hurler Quentin Morgan (3-1) in the top of the first as Socorro, Lipton and V. Gomez all reached base via base knock. Socorro notched the first run of the game on V. Gomez's single, giving the Herd the 1-0 lead.
The one-run advantage was short lived as the Eagles crossed home plate twice in the bottom half of the frame, thanks to a trio of base hits off Herd starter Ben Jurevicius (1-1).
After MU was held off the scoreboard in the top of the second, MSU exploded for a five-spot, including a homer from Michael Bottoms, to take a 7-1 advantage into the third.
Both squads exchanged a run in the third inning, as N. Gomez knocked in Socorro with a RBI single. The Eagles answered right back when Ashbrook slapped a run scoring single to right.
Neither team scored in the fourth inning, but that all changed in the fifth as each team pushed across four runs apiece.
Following a Socorro single and Lipton double, V. Gomez tattooed a three-run bomb to right field, his ninth of the season. Isaac Ballou ripped a line drive to left to score Thor Meeks, putting the Herd within striking distance, down 8-6.
MU would not get any closer as MSU tallied four runs of its own in the fifth and pushed across three more runs to round out the day's scoring, 15-6.
The Herd hosts Eastern Kentucky on Wednesday at 3 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Field off Route 2.
