Blue Raiders Fall in Offensive Battle

HUNTINGTON, W.Va – Middle Tennessee baseball dropped the first game of its weekend series to Marshall, 7-11 Friday afternoon.

As inclement weather conditions picked up late in the game, the Blue Raiders (13-15, 5-5 C-USA) collected 14 hits but could not hold off the Thundering Heard (14-16-1, 4-6 C-USA).

Mason Speirs hit his sixth home run of the season on a two-run shot to get the Blue Raiders started.

MT added one more in the third but the Herd offense came alive, scoring eight unanswered runs over the next two innings to take control at the end of the third.

The Blue Raiders nearly erased the deficit after Luke Vinson hit his first career home run in the fourth and Brett Coker drove in two…