Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The weather warmed up and the Murray State bats were red hot in a twinbill thrashing of visiting Arkansas State University Three Rivers in baseball action Sunday at The Ranch to run their winning streak to nine in a row.

Murray State raced to an 11-1 run rule victory in game one and nearly doubled that offensive output in a 20-1 thumping in the second contest while improving their record to 12-4 on the season. The Aggies face a huge test next on the schedule with a three-game series on the road at Division 1 ninth-ranked LSU-Eunice starting on Friday.

It was all Aggies in the opener as they scored at least one run in every inning while cashing in stellar pitching from freshman starter Tayte Dome as he yielded one unearned run on just one hit while striking out nine over five innings. Kyndon Lovell chipped in one scoreless frame of one-hit relief and fanned a pair of hitters.

Michael Barham's two-out single in the first inning plated the game's opening run and the Aggies tacked on another when Brennan Morgan led off the second frame with a first-pitch homer over the leftfield wall.

Three Rivers narrowed the gap to 2-1 in the fourth, cashing in a Murray State miscue, but that proved to be a short-lived rally with the Aggies answering with two runs in their half of the stanza when Tanner Norman knocked in both with a double.

Junho Son, Marlon Moore and Austin Haley strung together singles to start the fifth and Brady Taylor also chipped in a single following a pair of walks. Son doubled leading off the sixth to spur a final three-run flurry which ended the game early.

Moore paced the 10-hit Murray State onslaught with three hits and scored twice. Son added two hits while Haley, Barham, Taylor, Morgan and Norman all checked in with one.

The onslaught was on from the start in the second contest as the Aggies racked up a season-high 18 hits in only six innings. Murray State pushed across one run in the first, six in the second, two in the third, one in the fourth, four in the fifth and finally six in the sixth.

Half of the hits for the hosts went for extra bases, including home runs from Morgan, Brady Richardson, Jaxon Miller and Norman.

Richardson, Norman, Morgan, Barham, Haley, Grayson Doggett and Nick Vickery tossed in two hits apiece. Richardson drove in four while Norman, Morgan and Haley all knocked in three. Barham and Doggett added two RBI each. Son, Moore, Miller and Dawson Cleveland each notched one hit.

Five Aggies combined on the pitching decision, scattering just three hits while adding 14 combined strikeouts.

Haley got things going on the mound and captured the victory, allowing one run on two and struck out six. Conner Smeltzer, Jacob Holzer, Ty Frakes and Morgan all contributed one frame of scoreless relief.