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MOREHEAD, Ky. – Southeast Missouri baseball split a doubleheader with Morehead State Sunday. The Redhawks won game one, 8-6, before falling in the nightcap, 11-7.
 
The Redhawks saw their winning streak extended to four games but then saw it snapped at the end of the day.
 
Southeast remains at .500 on the season at 8-8 and is now 3-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play. Morehead is now 10-5 overall, 3-2 in OVC play.
 
Southeast Missouri 8, Morehead State 6
Trevor Ezell led off the game with a double to center field and advanced to third on a groundout to second by Jason Blum. Garret Gandolfo hit a blooper to left that the leftfielder lost in the sun and fell, allowing Ezell to score from third and putting Southeast on the board, 1-0.
 
Morehead hit Redhawk starting pitcher Alex Winkelman hard and early. Ryan Kent and Chris Robinson both scored on a double to left center by Kane Sweeney to go up 2-1 on the Redhawks. Morehead proceeded to load the bases but Winkelman worked out of the first inning jam without giving up any more runs.
 
Ryan Rippee hit a monster home run to lead off the fourth inning to tie the game at 2-2.
 
Morehead answered with a run of their own to retake the lead in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Robinson, 3-2.
 
Ezell blasted his first career home run over the high fence in right field to retie the game in the fifth inning, 3-3.
 
Southeast Missouri plated three runs in the sixth inning. Rippee doubled to lead off the inning followed by Dalton Hewitt drawing a walk. Both runners advanced a base on a sac bunt by Andy Lennington. Rippee scored on a single by Scott Mitchell to take a 4-3 lead. Branden Boggetto then plated a pair of runs on a double to center field. Southeast led 6-3 going to the bottom of the sixth inning.
 
Morehead chipped away at the Redhawk lead with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh to tie the game at six all.
 
Clayton Evans gave the Redhawks a lead once again with a long ball to center in the eighth inning, 7-6.
 
Rippee launched his second home run of the game in the ninth for a key insurance run, making it 8-6 Southeast.
 
Matthew Wade (1-0) earned his first career victory in game one against Morehead. Wade pitched two and a third hitless innings in relief. He struck out a pair and walked one. Winkelman went five innings, allowing four runs on five hits.
 
Southeast outhit the Eagles 14-6 in the game. Rippee finished 4-for-5 with a pair of RBI on his two home runs, and three runs scored. Ezell had a 3-for-4 game with his first career home run. Mitchell and Blum also contributed a pair of hits in the game.
 
Aaron Leasher (1-1) recorded the loss for Morehead State. He pitched two innings in relief, allowing one run on three hits. MSU starter Aaron Goe worked five innings, allowing three runs on seven hits.
 
Not a single Eagle hitter had a multi-hit game as six different hitters combined for Morehead's six hits. Robinson and Sweeney each had a pair of RBI.
 
Morehead State 11, Southeast Missouri 7
Morehead once again hit the Redhawk starter hard in the first inning. Kent and Robinson hit back-to-back home runs to lead of the inning for the Eagles. Another run was plated by Robby Spencer to make it 3-0 in the first.
 
The Redhawks narrowed the deficit to 3-1 in the second inning. With Mitchell on first, Boggetto doubled to left. Mitchell, who got a late stop sign at third, was able to score on a bad throw back to third by the second baseman.
 
The Redhawks officially erased the three-run deficit in the third inning. Gandolfo scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Hewitt. Lennington gave the Redhawks the lead with a two-run shot to dead center field to put the Redhawks on top 4-3.
 
Just as quickly as the Redhawks took a lead, Morehead recaptured it in the bottom of the inning. The Eagles put up a four-spot to go up 7-4 on Southeast. Redhawk starter Travis Hayes was knocked out of the game in the inning.
 
The Eagles plated another run in the fourth inning on a double by Nick Newell to make it 8-4.
 
Morehead added a run in the fifth inning on a sac fly by Robinson; 9-4 MSU.
 
An error by the third baseman in the sixth inning allowed Hunter Leeper to touch home and making it 9-5, Eagles.
 
Morehead plated two more in the bottom of the inning to extend the lead to 11-5.
 
Boggetto hit a two-run shot to right center in the eighth inning to bring the final score to 11-7.
 
Boggetto was the only Redhawk with a multi-hit game in the nightcap after going 2-for-4 with three RBI.
 
Hayes (3-2) suffered the loss. He worked two and a third innings, allowing seven run on seven hits. The Redhawks used six pitchers in the game. Greg Mosel and Zach Moore each threw an inning and two-thirds. Moore never allowed a hit in his outing on the mound.
 
The Redhawks walked 17 total batters and hit five batters in the doubleheader for 22 free bases on the day.
 
After no multi-hit performances in game one, Morehead had four hitters with two hits each in game two. Robinson finished with three RBI.
 
Luke Humphreys (2-0) picked up the victory for the Eagles. He pitched five innings, allowing four runs on seven hits. David Calderon earned a four-inning save in game two.
 
The rubber game of the three-game series will be played Monday at 11 a.m., CT from Morehead, Kentucky.