Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
After dropping a narrow 5-4 decision in Friday's opener at The Ranch, Murray State rallied for a 6-2 triumph in game two to claim a pivotal conference series win over Northern Oklahoma College Enid.

With the victory, the Aggies remained level at 22-22 overall but improved to 7-16 in league play with seven games remaining and still vying for a conference tournament qualifying slot. The visiting Jets are now 32-17 overall and 16-8 in conference.

The Aggies are slated to travel to Richland College for a non-conference nine-inning battle on Monday at 1 p.m. before hosting Redlands Community College for a league twinbill at 1 p.m. Thursday.

In Friday's opener, Murray State put together a late comeback that fell just short after trailing 5-1 entering the seventh inning. Trevin Pettigrew and Ty Chaddrick started the rally with a single and Andrew Tinsley followed with an RBI double.

Wilbert Espinal drove in a run with a ground out and Austin Haley's sacrifice fly narrowed the gap to just one before back-to-back walks loaded the bases before the flurry ended.

Murray State made the most of five hits, including a pair of doubles from Gage Gilchrist. Tinsley notched a double and drove in two with Pettigrew and Chaddrick adding the other Aggie hits.

Cash Kuiper was saddled with the mound loss, scattering five runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and three walks in five and one-third innings. Kyle Holzer contributed two-third scoreless frames of relief and Ryan Dugas tossed in a perfect seventh on 13 pitches.

The Aggies cruised to a 5-0 edge after seven innings of the second game and cruised the rest of the way to victory while posting 10 hits as a team.

They tallied the initial run in the third stanza on an Espinal RBI single and picked up two more in the fifth on an Espinal double. Murray State's two tallies in the seventh came compliments of a Mason Shimkus solo home run with Espinal pitching in another double before scoring on a Haley single.

Espinal notched three hits and drove in three with Shimkus and Chaddrick posting a pair of hits apiece. Haley, Trace Necessary and Ethan Rone each contributed one hit.

That was plenty of offensive support for southpaw Jake Blackwell, who twirled seven scoreless innings for his best start of the season. He yielded just two hits and struck out seven.

Jakob Holzer allowed one run on one hit in his two-thirds of an inning with Javarian Roquemore keeping the Jets scoreless on a single hit in his one-third of a stanza. Nathan Darden fired the final inning, yielding one unearned run on three hits.