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21
Winner Middle Tennessee MT 29-20
7
Rice RICE 13-39
Winner
Middle Tennessee MT
29-20
21
Final
7
Rice RICE
13-39
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Middle Tennessee MT 1 2 11 4 0 3 0 21 18 1
Rice RICE 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 7 8 4

W: Wirtz, Jalen (2-0) L: Mark Perkins (1-1)

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Game Recap: Baseball |

Blue Raiders Complete Sweep with Beatdown of Rice

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HOUSTON – Twenty-one runs off 18 hits was the story in Middle Tennessee's thrashing of Rice Sunday afternoon.

Seeking its first sweep of the season, it was the most runs scored in a game since the Blue Raiders piled on 24 runs at Belmont March 27, 2018.

An 11-run, nine-hit Blue Raider third inning marked the second time MT scored 11 runs in an inning this season (Feb. 26 vs. Illinois).

Following two singles to start the game by Fausto Lopez and JT Mabry, Lopez scored on a wild pitch for the game's first run.

Brian Dillingham hit an RBI single to left to make it 2-0 in the second and Lopez immediately followed with a sacrifice fly to add a run (3-0).

Five straight batters reached to start the third, including Jackson Galloway's RBI triple and Briggs Rutter's RBI single. Rutter scored on an error and Lopez drove in a run on a single but that would not be it. 

The second trip through the order in the third started with three consecutive RBI doubles by Morgan, Galloway and Rutter, extending MT's lead to 12-0. Coker capped off the scoring with a two-run moonshot to left as the Blue Raiders led 14-0 after two-and-a-half.

Leading 14-2 entering the fourth, Dillingham scored on a wild pitch and two batters later, Morgan walked, Galloway singled and Rutter drove both runners on on an RBI double as MT led 18-2.

Jacob Williams blasted a three-run home run to left in the top of the sixth to get the Blue Raiders into the 20s (21-3).

Rice scored four in the bottom of the seventh but the mercy rule still applied to end the game at 21-7 after seven.

Galloway and Rutter each drove in four runs on three hits while all four Blue Raider infielders recorded two hits. Jalen Wirtz picked up his second win of the week after a scoreless outing of an inning-and-a-third.

Up Next
After an undefeated week and winners of their last six, the Blue Raiders wrap up the regular season with one last midweek at Vanderbilt Tuesday at 6 p.m. MT then returns home to face Southern Miss starting Thursday.
 
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OF
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Fausto Lopez

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INF
5' 8"
Redshirt Junior
RS-JR-TR
JT Mabry

#11 JT Mabry

INF
5' 11"
Sophomore
SO
Jacob Williams

#19 Jacob Williams

INF
6' 3"
Freshman
FR
Briggs Rutter

#38 Briggs Rutter

C
6' 2"
Freshman
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Jackson Galloway

#16 Jackson Galloway

OF
6' 2"
Sophomore
SO
Jalen Wirtz

#42 Jalen Wirtz

RHP
6' 4"
Freshman
FR

Players Mentioned

Brian Dillingham

#1 Brian Dillingham

5' 9"
Redshirt Junior
RS-JR-TR
OF
Fausto Lopez

#4 Fausto Lopez

5' 8"
Redshirt Junior
RS-JR-TR
INF
JT Mabry

#11 JT Mabry

5' 11"
Sophomore
SO
INF
Jacob Williams

#19 Jacob Williams

6' 3"
Freshman
FR
INF
Briggs Rutter

#38 Briggs Rutter

6' 2"
Freshman
FR
C
Jackson Galloway

#16 Jackson Galloway

6' 2"
Sophomore
SO
OF
Jalen Wirtz

#42 Jalen Wirtz

6' 4"
Freshman
FR
RHP