Box Score FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Spring Hill College (SHC) baseball team won a wild 15-10 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) decision over the Kentucky State University (KSU) Thorobreds in 12 innings at KSU Baseball Field on Monday afternoon.
 
The Thorobreds (16-30, 10-8 SIAC) led the Badgers 7-3 after seven inning of play, but SHC rallied to put three runs across the plate in the 8^th frame only to watch KSU respond with three scores of their own in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Four consecutive singles in the top of the 9^th inning led to four runs by the Badgers to send the game into extra innings knotted at 10-10. Neither team dented the scoreboard until the top of the 12^th inning when second baseman Daniel Rodriguez put SHC up 11-10 with a double to plate pitcher Dylan Kiene from 2^nd base and two batters later third baseman Brandon Harigel launched a three-run homer to make it 14-10. Center fielder Ulysses Fluellen was next up with a double and then scored to make it 15-10 off an RBI-single by first baseman Hunter Romero.
 
Kiene (5-3) took home the win in five innings of relief work with three hits, a walk and two strike outs. Matthew Oxford (1-4) accepted the loss in three innings with eight hits, a walk and no strike outs.
 
At the plate, the Badgers totaled a season-high 24 hits as Fontenot feasted on a 5-for-7 day with two RBI and Fluellen rapped out four hits with a double and an RBI. Harigel added his home run in the final stanza along with two more hits and seven RBI. Left fielder Conner Harrison punched a leadoff home run to center in the 6^th inning.
 
The Badgers (26-20, 14-4 SIAC) will return home to the friendly confines of historic Stan Galle Field this weekend for a season-ending three-game series with the Clark Atlanta University Panthers (13-22, 7-10 SIAC) beginning on Friday with a single game at 6 p.m.