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MORHEAD, Ky. – The Southeast Missouri baseball team picked up its second Ohio Valley Conference series win Monday with a 14-6 win over the Morehead State Eagles.
 
Southeast improves to 9-8 overall and 4-2 in OVC play. Morehead falls to 10-6, 3-3 OVC.
 
Southeast avenged their series loss from a year ago to Morehead State as it was the only OVC series loss for Southeast in 2014.
 
Southeast scored 29 runs in against the Eagles in the series.
 
Southeast kept their hot bats going early in the game with three runs in the first inning. Trevor Ezell extended his reaching base safely streak to 17 games with a double to lead off the game. Jason Blum singled but was out on a fielder's choice off the bat of Ryan Rippee that also allowed Ezell to touch home and put Southeast on the board. Dalton Hewitt plated Rippee from first with a double to left center. Hewitt immediately scored on a single off the bat of Andy Lennington, putting Southeast up 3-0 in the first.
 
Morehead State wasted no time tying the game in the bottom of the inning when Robby Spencer hit a three-run home run to right.
 
The Redhawks recaptured the lead in the top of the second inning and then some. Branden Boggetto and Ezell led off the inning with back-to-back base hits. Both runners scored on a double by Blum. Rippee plated Blum and Garrett Gandolfo on a single to right, putting the Redhawks up 7-3. The Redhawks knocked Morehead State starting pitcher Matt Anderson out of the game in the inning.
 
Morehead got runners on second and third quick in the third inning with nobody out. Joey Lucchesi fanned two hitters but Evan Warden poked one up the middle to score both runners and narrow the Redhawk lead to 7-5.
 
The score would stand until the bottom of the sixth inning. Lucchesi got two quick outs but Morehead wasn't going down quietly in the inning as they put runners on first and second. Lucchesi was taken out of the game for Ryan Lenaburg. Lenaburg walked the first batter he faced to load the bases then threw a wild pitch, allowing a run to score and making it a one run game, 7-6. Lenaburg would be taken out of the game for Alex Siddle who got the final out to stop the bleeding and preserve the lead.
 
The Redhawks, who hadn't had a hit since the second inning, plated three runs in the seventh inning. Rippee and Hewitt had back-to-back base hits to leadoff the inning. The OVC saves leader Craig Pearcy was put in the game for the Eagles.  Lennington drove Rippee in on a base hit of his own. A walk to Scott Mitchell loaded the bases with no out for Boggetto. Boggetto was hit to plate the second run of the inning and keep the bases loaded. After a pair of strikeouts by Pearcy, a wild pitch allowed Lennington to score and extend the Redhawk lead to 10-6.
 
The Redhawks upped the lead in the ninth inning. Clayton Evans drilled a two-run home run to left to put Southeast up by half a dozen. After an error and a walk, Gandolfo drove in two more to bring the final tally to 14-6.
 
Lennington finished 3-for-5 in the game while five other Redhawks each contributed two hits each.
 
Lucchesi (2-0) earned his second victory of the season. He pitched five and two-thirds innings, allowing six runs on eight hits. He struck out seven and walked three. Alex Siddle worked two and a third scoreless innings in relief. Greg Mosel closed the game for Southeast in the ninth inning.
 
Brendon Rawe and Warden each had three hits in the game for MSU.
 
Anderson (1-1) recorded the loss. He worked only one and a third innings, allowing six runs to Southeast. A total of six pitchers were used in the game for Morehead State.
 
Southeast Missouri will return to action Tuesday as they take on SEC opponent Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The two-game series can be viewed on the SEC Network+.