Brady Benedict/Baseball | Murray State College
Brady Benedict/Baseball | Murray State College
Big offensive innings helped propel the Murray State Aggie baseball team to a pair of run-rule victories Saturday at The Ranch while sweeping the four-game weekend series with North Central Missouri College.
The Aggies cruised to a 14-4 win in the opener and then followed with a 13-2 triumph as they improved to 11-2 on the season. Next up for Murray State is a Wednesday trip to Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana where they will meet Kellogg Community College for a 1 p.m. twinbill.
Murray State broke a 1-1 deadlock with four runs in the third inning to take command and poured it on from there. A Brady Benedict double and Kale Miller single proved to be the lone Aggie hits in the four-run flurry, and they produced five more runs one frame later, stringing together hits from Miller, Wilbert Espinal and Jaxon Gless.
Four runs in the fifth inning capped the run-rule triumph as Espinal belted a two-run homer with Gless and Bryson Evans adding doubles.
Dylan Hill worked four strong innings, allowing one run while scattering three hits. He also struck out five and walked four. Espinal, Miller, Gless and Benedict all had two hits as part of the 11-hit Murray attack. Ethan Rone drove in four runs.
Game two was much the same story with Murray State erasing the 1-0 first inning deficit with a pair of runs in the bottom of the stanza after back-to-back doubles by Gage Gilchrist and Patrick McCullough.
A nine-run explosion in the third ended any doubt in the contest as the Aggies sent 12 hitters to the plate. Andrew Tinsley and Kolt Black got things rolling with RBI singles and Benedict's grand slam over the right field wall added plenty of fuel to the fire. Espinal also homered to cap the barrage.
The final Murray State runs came on run-scoring hits by Gilchrist and McCullough in the fourth.
Southpaw Brady Roe was credited with the pitching win as he yielded one run on one hit and fanned three over three innings. Gilchrist led the offensive charge with three hits as Benedict posted two hits and four RBI, Espinal had two hits and drove in three with McCullough also posting two hits and two batted in.
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