BOX SCORE I PLAY-BY-PLAY

MOREHEAD, Ky. – Morehead State completed the series sweep over the Eastern Kentucky University baseball team as the Eagles defeated the Colonels, 21-11, on Sunday afternoon at Allen Field. With the loss, EKU drops to 18-18 (6-6 OVC) on the year while MSU improves to 22-17 (5-4 OVC).

Sophomore southpaw Greg Terry (2-2) picked up the loss for EKU, pitching 2.2 innings and allowing 11 runs on nine hits. Only three of those runs were earned, however, as the Colonel defense, which came into this weekend with the top fielding percentage in the OVC, committed a season-high nine errors on the afternoon.

Trey Smith (3-2) earned the win for the Eagles, going 3.1 innings and allowing three runs on seven hits.

Senior Anthony Ottrando led the Colonels at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a run scored and a team-best four RBI, all of which came off his third grand slam of the season (and second of this week) in the top of the fifth.

Sophomore Jacob Daniel batted 3-for-6 on the day with a pair of homers while sophomore Michael Garcia went 3-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI.

Andrew Deeds batted 4-for-6 with three runs scored and two RBI to lead the Eagles offensively. Drew Lee, meanwhile, paced MSU with five RBI.

EKU got on the board first in the top of the first when Daniel crushed a solo home run to center field; however, MSU plated seven in the bottom of the second to take a commanding lead it would not relinquish.

Trailing 13-2 heading into the fifth, the Colonels rallied for six and pulled to within five runs, which is as close as they would get for the rest of the game. Ottrando started the scoring in that inning with an opposite field grand slam that scored Daniel, junior Jayson Langfels and sophomore Richie Rodriguez. Two batters later, Garcia singled and then went to second when freshman Austin Grisham walked. The bases loaded again when senior Joey Stevens legged out an infield single. Sophomore Dustin Dunlop then laced a base hit into center that scored Garcia, and Rodriguez lifted a sacrifice fly to left that plated Grisham and made it 13-8.

MSU, though, quickly put the game out of reach again with four runs in the sixth, three of which came off a bases-clearing double by Lee with two outs in the inning.

The Colonels got three runs back in the eighth, but it was not enough as MSU closed out EKU in the ninth for the win.

It is the first time EKU has been swept by Morehead State in a three game series since 1985.

EKU returns home this week as the Colonels host the University of the Cumberlands at Turkey Hughes Field on Tuesday, April 20, at 4:00 p.m.