Cardinals Plate 19 Runs, Roll to Eighth Straight Win

Wednesday, March 6

Louisville, Ky.

3:00 PM

University of Louisville

8-4

Morehead State

7-5

Morehead State

Louisville

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Louisville downed Morehead State 19-5 on Wednesday.

By: Stephen Williams

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville baseball offense continued its hot run with a 19-5 victory over Morehead State on Wednesday afternoon at Jim Patterson Stadium.

Louisville (8-4) has now won eight straight games, plating 123 runs over that period.

The Cardinals scored in all eight innings they went to the plate on Wednesday, getting a sacrifice fly from JT Benson in the first to start the scoring.

Louisville loaded the bases with one out in the second and Lucas Moore promptly unloaded them with a triple to the right-centerfield wall before scoring on Benson's second sacrifice fly in as many innings.

Morehead State (7-5) put a pair of runs on the board with a homer in the third, but the Cardinals had an immediate answer.

Gavin Kilen and Isaac Humphrey led off the bottom half of the inning with doubles to get the first run back. Moore then strolled to the plate with the bases loaded once again and lined a single into left-centerfield to push two more across.

Moore's hit led to a pitching change by the Eagles, and Benson welcomed the new pitcher to the game with a three-run home run to the berm in left-center on the second pitch he saw to give the Cards an 11-2 advantage.

Kilen kept the scoring going with a home run inside the right field foul pole leading off the fourth, his first collegiate long ball. Ryan McCoy lined a ball inside the pole to drive in three in the sixth, and Michael Lippe went the other way for his first collegiate home run in the eighth.

Moore and Benson drove in five runs apiece for the Cards, becoming the first Louisville teammates to drive in five or more in the same game since Logan Beard and Ben Bianco against Akron on March 5, 2022.

Lippe finished 3-for-4 with two walks and five runs scored. He was the first Louisville player to score five runs in a game since Alex Binelas did so on April 26, 2019 versus Alabama A&M. Kilen was 4-for-5 in the win with four extra-base hits. The sophomore homered and tallied three doubles.

Riley Phillips (1-1) earned the win with two innings of work out of the bullpen, striking out five of the eight batters he faced. Colton Hartman and Jake Karaba followed with scoreless innings, striking out two each.

The Cardinals now get ready for a three-game set against Northwestern. The series gets underway on Friday at 3 p.m. ET at Jim Patterson Stadium.

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