Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The Murray State Aggies broke out of an offensive funk in a big way on Wednesday, erupting for 27 hits including eight home runs, to blast their way to a non-conference baseball sweep of Brookhaven College to wrap up a 15-game homestand.

Coach Sam Bjorling's unit breezed to a 14-3 win in the opener and followed with a 16-3 pasting in the second contest as well. With a 15-11 record, the Aggies return to conference play on Friday at Northern Oklahoma College in Enid. The visiting Bears fell to 10-15 overall.

Murray State plated runs in every inning of the opening run rule rout, rallying from an early 1-0 deficit with a pair of tallies in the bottom of the inning. Gage Gilchrist walked, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on an Andrew Tinsley single. Austin Haley put the hosts in front just two batters later with a sacrifice fly.

Ty Chaddrick drove in another run in the second frame and Haley had the big blow in a three-run third by smoking a home run to centerfield.

Brookhaven narrowed the gap to 6-2 before the Aggies broke it wide open when they plated eight runs in the fourth. Wilbert Espinal began the flurry with a solo home run and capped the burst with a three-run homer as well. Trevin Pettigrew, Jaxon Gless, Chaddrick and Tinsley all had singles in between.

Espinal, Gless and Chaddrick each posted three hits for Murray State with Tinsley, Haley and Pettigrew all pitching in two. Ethan Rone had the final Aggie hit.

That was plenty of support for Jakob Holzer as the righty tossed four frames, yielding two unearned runs on four hits while striking out six. Ryan Dugas added one inning of relief, allowing one run on one hit with a pair of strikeouts.

The onslaught continued in the second game, which the Aggies broke wide open during a 10-run fifth inning explosion.

Gilchrist belted a homer to start the game for Murray State and Peyton Roberson added a two-run blast in the second stanza.

Murray State scuffled through a couple of frames at the plate before the monster fifth frame after the Bears had narrowed the gap to 6-3.

Tinsley roped a two-run homer with two outs but the Aggies were far from done. Rone and Chaddrick each singled ahead of Roberson's second blast of the game, which pushed across three runs.

Roberson tallied five runs batted in with his two hits while Tinsley also checked in with two hits and three RBI. Chaddrick had a pair of hits and knocked in one. Gilchrist, Rone and Mason Shimkus added one hit apiece.

Conner Smeltzer fired four strong innings, allowing no runs on three hits with three strikeouts, to notch the pitching victory. Cooper Ewing, Javarian Roquemore and Haley all contributed one frame of scoreless pitching as well.