Box Score

MOREHEAD, Ky. – EKU hit four home runs on its way to completing the season sweep of Morehead State with a 13-3 win on Wednesday in Morehead.  The Colonels won the first meeting between the in-state rivals 10-6 in Richmond on March 28.
 
Logan Thomason wasted no time getting the Colonels (22-24) on the board, leading off the game with a home run over the wall in center field.  An RBI double from Jalen Jones and a run-scoring single by Michael Goehrig in the second put the visitors on top 3-0. 
 
After the Eagles (27-17) closed the gap to 3-2 in the bottom half of the second inning, Charlie Ludwick hit a two-run home run in the top of the third to push the lead back to three, 5-2. 
 
EKU manufactured a three-run fifth inning to take an 8-2 lead.  Miguel Larreal scored on an error and Will King came home a on a fielder's choice.  Roderick Criss II drove in DJ Sullivan with a single up the middle.
 
Larreal finished 3-for-5 with two runs.  He came into the game hitting .404 with a .556 on-base percentage over his previous 13 games.
 
Jones hit a two-run home run as part of a three-run seventh inning for the Colonels.  It was his sixth in 2023 and gave EKU an 11-3 edge.  King sent a shot over the wall in center in the eight with a runner on.  It was his eighth of the season.
 
Quinton Hall retired the side in order in the bottom of the eighth to end the game by run-rule.
 
Criss had a 3-for-4 day with two runs and two RBIs.  Jones had three RBIs on a double and a home run, and scored twice.  Ludwick was 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs.  King scored three runs, walked twice and drove in two while going 1-for-3.
 
Roman Kuntz had two hits in four at bats and drove in a run for Morehead State.
 
The Colonels will hit the road for an ASUN Conference series this weekend at Queens University of Charlotte.  The series opener is slated for Friday at 6 p.m.