Following a rain delay, the Murray State Racers baseball team (21-16, 11-7 OVC) defeated the Eastern Kentucky Colonels (13-25, 7-14 OVC) to sweep the series, 7-3, on Alumni Weekend.
With the sweep, Murray State improves to second in league play while Eastern Kentucky sits at the bottom of the OVC.
Sam Gardner put together his fourth-quality start in a row, going 7.0 innings and tying his career-high, nine strikeouts, for the third time this season. He allowed only two runs on six hits to set the tone for the Racers.
Bryson Bloomer and Jake Slunder paced the offense this weekend as each finished the series with multi-hits performances in all of the games.
Murray State tied a program record with three triples in the game seeing Slunder hit his third of the season, Jacob Pennington his first career and Ryan Perkins his first of the season.
The Racers were outhit by the Colonels 8-7 but used the wet field conditions to their advantage as the EKU made four errors in the game.
Bloomer drove in the Racers first run in the bottom of the first and never trailed the rest of the game.
Murray State put up picket fences in the third, fourth and fifth.
Eastern Kentucky pull within two, getting one run back in the top half of the fifth on a solo shot and the other on an RBI single in the seventh.
In the bottom half of the inning posting three runs. Two runs came home after the Colonels' left fielder slipped in the outfield and Ryan Perkins raced around for his fourth career triple.
EKU added one more in the eighth but Jacob Pennington came on to close the game out for the Racers and shutdown the threat.
The Racers will travel to Southern Illinois for a midweek game against the Salukis. First pitch is set for 5 p.m.
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