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Govs Sweep Sunday Twin Bill, Win Series Against Western Illinois
G1: Govs 5 - WIU 6
G2: Govs 18 - WIU 9
G3: Govs 7 - WIU 6

Austin Peay State University's baseball team won both halves of a Sunday doubleheader against Western Illinois on Joe Maynard Field at Raymond C. Hand Park. The Govs slugged their way to an 18-9 win in the day's first game before claiming a 7-6 victory in a back-and-forth nightcap.

Austin Peay (2-1) hammered a Hand Park record-tying six home runs in the day's first game and added six doubles in an 18-hit attack. Right fielder Lyle Miller-Green and Center fielder John Bay hit two home runs, and designated hitter Justin Olson and second baseman Ambren Voitik also had home runs in the opener.

Miller-Green and Justin Olson opened the scoring with back-to-back home runs in the first inning, cutting an early APSU deficit to 3-2. Later in the first, third baseman Brody Szako gave the Govs the lead for good, 5-3, with a two-run double later in the inning. Austin Peay would score five runs again in the third before tacking on three runs in the fourth and fifth innings as it raced out to a 17-5 lead.

The Govs added an insurance run thanks to Paris Pridgen's speed. He bunted down the third base line with two out and raced to first base. The WIU third baseman slipped as he fielded the ball and attempted to throw the ball to first while seated on the ground. The throw sailed into right field, and Pridgen ended up at third base. Bay would make WIU pay for its miscue, doubling to left field to get Pridgen home for a 7-5 lead.

That insurance run proved crucial, with WIU loading the bases with no outs in the ninth. First baseman Jackson Horn's ground ball toward second base only resulted in one out with a run scoring. Govs' reliever Titan Kennedy-Hayes wouldn't allow the inning to spin further away, inducing another infield ground ball out to end the game.