Box Score By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The Murray State Aggies watched a ninth-inning lead slip away on the road Sunday afternoon as third-ranked LSU-Eunice rallied for three runs with two outs for a 7-6 win.

Coach Sam Bjorling's squad slipped to 16-4 on the season before returning home Thursday for the conference opener with a 1 p.m. twinbill against Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa.

Murray State appeared in control with a 5-0 lead in the sixth behind a strong pitching start from Will Ellis before watching the host Bengals begin to rally.

Eunice plated three runs in the sixth thanks to three straight hits to break up a no-hitter up to that point from Ellis, who struck out 11 in his six stanzas of work.

Tyler Zylstra steadied the ship out of the bullpen, yielding one run over the next two innings before watching things slip away in the ninth thanks to a single, two walks and a pair of two-out RBI singles to walk off the Eunice win.

The Aggies broke a scoreless deadlock in the fourth frame, pushing across three runs. Trace Necessary drove in two of those with a double and Patrick McCullough also tallied a RBI single.

Gage Gilchrist doubled and Garrett Gruell before McCullough once again provided the clutch hit with a two-out, two-run single to left.

That flurry pushed Murray to a 5-0 cushion before the Bengals notched three in the sixth and one in the seventh. Ashton Inman's RBI double in the eighth got one of those runs back and the Aggies carried that 6-4 edge to the bottom of the ninth when it began to unravel.

Murray State finished with a 13-8 advantage in hits as Necessary, McCullough, Gruell, Clay Jung and Kale Miller each contributed two hits but it wasn't enough.