Box Score By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
Ty Chaddrick's walk off single in the bottom of the ninth inning capped a Murray State comeback as the Aggie baseball team kept its postseason hopes alive with a crucial sweep of Redlands Community College Thursday at The Ranch.

The Aggies were 9-4 victors in the opening matchup, which was the conclusion of an earlier suspended contest, and then they scored twice in the final inning for a 10-9 triumph in the nightcap to improve their overall record to 25-22.

Now 9-16 in conference play, Murray State will look to continue its four-game winning streak Saturday when they travel to Redlands for another league twinbill.

Starting with the third inning of the suspended contest, the Aggies wasted little time in taking the lead as Brennan Morgan doubled in a run just three batters into the action to key the two-run burst. They added another pair one frame later as Austin Haley singled and then rode home on a Gage Gilchrist home run.

Redlands answered to tie the game at 4-4 heading into the seventh when Murray State struck again with two tallies, spurred once more from Morgan, who singled home the first. Trace Necessary chipped in an RBI single as well.

Three tallies in the eighth put the game completely out of reach, fueled by Ethan Rone's double and a Wilbert Espinal run-scoring single.

Brody Roe tossed five innings, yielding four runs on eight hits and struck out five to pick up the pitching victory as Jakob Holzer contributed two frames of scoreless one-hit relief. He fanned a pair.

Murray State posted 11 hits offensively fueled by two hits and two runs batted in apiece from Espinal and Morgan. Rone also chipped in two hits with Gilchrist, Andrew Tinsley, Necessary, Haley and Jaxon Gless all contributing one.

A back-and-force second contest carried all the way to the final stanzas as Murray State scored in six of the nine innings.

The Aggies rallied from an early 1-0 deficit to tie the game on a second inning RBI single from Mason Shimkus. They took the lead one frame later when Espinal belted a two-run homer that also plated Tinsley, who had singled. Two more runs came via a Chaddrick single in the fourth frame.

Redlands answered with seven straight runs to take an 8-5 cushion but it was far from over. The Aggies got two back in the bottom of the sixth as Tinsley drove in a pair on a double after two walks.

Rone and Trevin Pettigrew each singled to lead to a run in the seventh before the decisive final inning.

Gilchrist reached on an error with Ethan Rone following with an RBI hit to tie things up at 9-9. Kane Springer and Morgan each had hits before Chaddrick's one out game winner.

Tinsley had a big game at the plate, joining Rone with three hits. Morgan and Chaddrick had two hits apiece. Espinal, Haley, Necessary, Pettigrew, Kane Springer and Shimkus all notched one hit.

Closer Nathan Darden twirled the final two and third-third scoreless innings, yielding one hit and struck out for the win. Kaleb Melvin, Kyle Holzer, Smeltzer and Ryan Dugas all contributed on the mound as well.