Marshall Baseball Falls in Series Finale to A-State in Extra Innings

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Baseball team (8-15, 2-4 Sun Belt) dropped a heartbreaker in 14 innings, 6-4, in the series finale on Sunday to the Arkansas State Red Wolves (14-12, 2-4 Sun Belt) at Jack Cook Field.

"Tough loss today," Herd Baseball head coach Greg Beals said after the loss. "We asked a lot of Nick Weyrich. He pitched his tail off for a long time and ran out of gas there at the end. We had opportunities offensively to finish that ballgame. We were just one hit away a couple times. We just weren't able to get that key hit we had in the first two days of the series."

The Herd had a big ninth to force extra innings. Tre Hondras led off with a single. Cam Harthan then singled on through the left side to extend his streak to seven games. AJ Havrilla followed with a single to right and an error allowed Hondras to score on the play making it 4-2.

After a wild pitch, Jack Firestone brought home Harthan and moved Havrilla to third on a sacrifice fly. Kebler Peralta stepped to the plate and brought home Havrilla with a sacrifice fly to tie the ballgame 4-4.

Relieve Nicholas Weyrich, who came into the contest in the seventh, competed to keep Marshall in the game across a 7.2 inning outing with nine strikeouts. After allowing an unearned run in the seventh, the junior right-hander put zeroes on the board from the top of the eighth through the 13th innings.

The Red Wolves took advantage of a jam in the top of 14th tallying two runs as MU was able to comeback in the bottom half of the inning.

Calin Smith crossed home on an Arkansas State error in the bottom of the third for the team's first run of the game.

Starting pitcher Carter Lyles allowed two runs, both unearned, on five hits and two walks across 3.2 innings with three strikeouts.

Griffin Miller hurled 1.2 innings of no-hit baseball out of the bullpen with Alex McKay allowing just an unearned run in 0.2 of an inning. Peyton Schofield struck out one in one-third of an inning.

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Marshall Baseball Falls in Series Finale to A-State in Extra Innings

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Team Stats

Tre Hondras

Calin Smith

Cam Harthan

Owen Ayers

Players Mentioned

Jack Firestone

Cam Harthan

AJ Havrilla

Tre Hondras

Carter Lyles

Alex McKay

Griffin Miller

Kebler Peralta

Peyton Schofield

Calin Smith

Nicholas Weyrich

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