Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The Murray State baseball team beat the weather as well as Carl Albert State College on Friday to claim a conference twinbill at The Ranch in Tishomingo.

In the opener, the Aggies rolled to a 9-2 win and then dispatched the Vikings by a 6-1 count in the nightcap to improve to 36-14 on the season. Due to additional rain, the return doubleheader between the two squads will now be played on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Poteau.

Ace lefty Colby Langford notched a complete game performance in the opening contest, tossing all seven frames while yielding two runs on four hits as he struck out nine and walked four.

The Aggies notched three runs in the second frame to take control before adding two runs each in the fourth, fifth and sixth stanzas.

Ashton Inman and Jaxon Gless got things rolling for Murray State in the second inning before a two-run single from Brady Benedict and an RBI hit by Garrett Gruell. Clay Jung chipped in a double to key the flurry in the fourth, Benedict had an RBI double in the fifth and Wilbert Espinal doubled in another run in the sixth.

Benedict's three hits spurred a 13-hit Murray State onslaught in the seven-inning contest. Gruell tallied two hits and drove in a pair with Gage Gilchrist and Inman also tallying two hits. Jung, Espinal, Gless and Trace Necessary each chipped in one.

Murray State got a nine-inning pitching gem in game two with Dylan Hill and Javarian Roquemore combining on a two-hitter. Hill allowed one unearned in five of those stanzas, striking out eight and walking three. Roquemore worked the final four scoreless innings with five strikeouts and two walks.

The Aggie offense began early with an Espinal two-run homer in the opening frame before Carl Albert cut the deficit in half with its lone run in the third.

That's how it stayed until the fifth when Murray State came alive with two outs as Espinal singled and rode home on a Patrick McCullough home run. Mason Shimkus singled and eventually scored the squad's fifth run an inning later and Espinal tossed in his second home run of the game in the seventh – a solo shot over the rightfield wall.

Espinal finished with a perfect four for four outing at the plate, driving in three runs. McCullough added two hits and two RBI with Necessary, Shimkus and Benedict all contributing a hit each.