MURFREESBORO, Tenn.—Sunday afternoon at Reese Smith Field was the exact opposite of Saturday afternoon's high-scoring affair in which the Middle Tennessee baseball team put up their highest offensive output of the year. The game went all the way into the eighth inning with just two runs on the board and three hits between both the Blue Raiders (21-17-1, C-USA 10-9-1) and UAB (13-27, CUSA 6-14) combined.
That all changed in the bottom of the ninth inning with MT leadoff man Fausto Lopez at the plate and the winning run in Nathan Sanders standing on second base.