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Baseball: Blue Raiders finish season strong against UAB
Photo by David Chamberlain / MTSU Sidelines Archive The Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, this weekend to play their last conference series of the season against the University of Alabama-Birmingham. The Blue Raiders took the series two games to one, as they earned wins in the first and third games. MTSU …
Baseball: Marshall completes sweep of MT with 9-4 victory
Photo by Darius Horton / MTSU Sidelines The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders’ (17-15, 5-7) Sunday matinee against the Marshall Thundering Herd (14-13, 4-8) summed up to be a disappointing weekend sweep, as MTSU dropped the series finale by a score of 9-4. After scoring 17 runs in the first two games of the weekend series, …
Baseball: Solid offense, lightning delay lead to victory for Middle Tennessee
Photo by David Chamberlain / MTSU Sidelines The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders hosted the No.15 Vanderbilt Commodores on Tuesday night, in a showdown that pitted two in-state opponents against each other. Though they managed to hold the Commodores in check for most of the night, an eighth-inning grand slam gave Vandy a 7-4 lead. Due …
Baseball: Lester throws 6 innings of two-run ball in 5-2 MTSU win
Photo by Darius Horton / MTSU Sidelines On Saturday afternoon, the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (16-11, 5-3) geared up to play their second game of a three-game series against the Old Dominion Monarchs (9-16, 2-6). In the end, the Blue Raiders claimed a low-scoring 5-2 victory to take a 2-0 series lead heading into Sunday. Pitching …
Baseball: Offensive explosion leads to 12-2 victory for Middle Tennessee
Photo by Darius Horton / MTSU Sidelines The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders were back in action on Saturday, as they took on the Charlotte 49ers in game two of a three-game weekend set. Though it looked bad early for Middle, starting pitcher Carson Lester buckled down after a rough first inning and gave the Blue …
Raiders fall 6-0 to Indiana
Photo by Devin P. Grimes / MTSU Sidelines The MTSU Blue Raiders dropped the final game of a three game series in Bloomington, Indiana to the Indiana Hoosiers this afternoon by a score of 6-0. The Raiders were alive throughout much of the ballgame due to a good start by Devin Conn and solid pitching …