Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The Murray State Aggies won their second straight baseball conference series and ran their winning streak to six in a row Saturday with a doubleheader sweep of Redlands Community College at The Ranch.

Coach Sam Bjorling's unit notched a 10-2 victory and then held on for an 8-6 triumph in game two.

With the wins the Aggies improved to 27-22 on the season and 11-16 in league play while Redlands fell to 5-22 in conference action. Murray State kept its postseason hopes alive, needing a sweep of Carl Albert State College when they host the Vikings for a three-game set slated to begin Friday at 2 p.m.

Andrew Tinsley had a huge performance at the plate in the opening victory on Saturday, driving in five of the team's 10 runs while posting three hits including a double and a home run.

Cash Kuiper twirled a complete game gem, yielding two runs (one earned) on five hits with nine strikeouts and a pair of walks. He allowed one run in the first and one in the seventh stanza while tossing five shutout frames in between.

The Aggies trailed 1-0 until the fourth when they erupted for four runs to claim the lead for good on a Tinsley two-out grand slam over the leftfield wall.
 
Murray State continued the charge one frame later with a six-run barrage, cashing in doubles by Ethan Rone, Austin Haley and Trace Necessary in addition to RBI singles from Brennan Morgan, Ty Chaddrick and Tinsley.

Necessary finished with two hits with Rone, Haley, Morgan and Chaddrick all contributing one.

The Aggies got off to a fast start in the second game, plating three runs in the first stanza and a pair in frame two. Trevin Pettigrew posted a run-scoring single to key the opening inning surge with Tinsley adding a double along with singles from Rone and Brady Richardson in the second.

Redlands tallied single runs in the first three innings before southpaw Jakob Blackwell silenced the Cougars over his final three frames of work. He picked up the victory in six solid innings, yielding three runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out eight.

Murray State tacked on two more runs in the fifth with a double by Chaddrick and single from Richardson. They also picked an insurance run in the eighth following a Tinsley leadoff triple.

Tinsley ended with four hits and scored three times. Richardson posted two hits while Chaddrick, Pettigrew and Rone all had one hit.

Kyle Holzer added one and one-third frames of scoreless relief on the mound with Darden earning the save by posting two-thirds of an inning to slam the door on a Redlands rally.