March 30, 2010
Box
Score
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. – The Belmont baseball team fell to visiting
Murray State 6-5 in a non-conference game held Tuesday afternoon at
Nashville's Shelby Park.
The
Bruins opened the scoring in the first when Packy Elkins led off
with a single and then advanced to third on Derek Hamblen's
double. The next batter, Dylan Craig, hit a
sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Elkins from third. Hamblen
would later advance to third and then score after MSU's Marc
Harmon threw two wild pitches during Nate Woods' at-bat to
give Belmont the early 2-0 lead.
Murray
State would cut the lead to 2-1 in the second when Daniel Hill
doubled to left and then later scored on a Tyler Monkman RBI
double.
In the
third inning, Belmont's Nate Woods hit his
ninth homerun of the season over the left field wall to extend the
Bruin lead to 3-1.
The
Thoroughbreds would take the lead for good in the fourth. After
Drew Pixley singled to left, Tyler Monkman reached base on a
fielder's choice with Pixley advancing to second. Then,
Brandon Elliott doubled to center, scoring Pixley and allowing
Monkman to reach third to cut the BU lead to 3-2. Then, Kyle
Tiernan hit a two RBI double down the left field line, scoring
Elliott and Monkman to give MSU the lead 4-3. Then, Elliot Frey
singled to right scoring Tiernan to give Murray the 5-3
lead.
Murray
State added a run in the eighth into increase their lead to 6-3.
The Bruins would add single runs in the eighth and ninth innings,
but the rally was not enough as the Thoroughbreds picked up the
victory 6-5.
Kyle
Tiernan led Murray State as he went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two
runs scored. Elliot Frye and Daniel Hill also added 2 hits each for
the Thoroughbreds.
Belmont
was paced by senior Packy Elkins, who
went 3 for 5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Jared Breen also
added two hits for the Bruins. Alex Love got his third win on the
year for the Thoroughbreds, while Matt McGaha picked up his second
save of the season. Tyler Graskewicz
took the loss for the Bruins.
Belmont
(15-11) is back in action this Thursday as they play at Kennesaw
State in a single game at 5:00pm CT.
