The Kentucky State University baseball secured the series victory with a doubleheader split with Lane College Saturday in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action at Alumni Park.

GAME ONE: KENTUCKY STATE 11, LANE 7
The Thorobreds pushed nine runs across the plate over the final two innings to knock off Lane in the third game of the series.

Trailing 6-2 going into the bottom of the fifth inning, KSU got three straight one-out singles, the last being of the bunt variety by senior Jay Poullard – to load the bases. Two runs scored on a two-out error, another run came home on another two-out miscue and then Sims capped the scoring with a two-run double.

Senior Cam Starks (Alpharetta, GA) opened the sixth with a double, and came around to score on a single by sophomore Adren Thompson (Lexington, KY). The hit parade continued and ended following six consecutive knocks. Once the hit stick was finished being passed around, four more runs scored and the lead was 11-6.

Sims finished 3-for-5 with three RBI, while Thompson was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Poullard added two hits and two RBI and senior Jordan Ransom (Ringgold, GA) contributed two knocks and two runs scored.

Junior Brady Bibbs, 4-0, (Hornersville, MO) picked up the win in five innings of work, allowing six runs (four earned) on five hits with six strikeouts. Sophomore Dom Lawson (Bloomfield, KY), in his season mound debut, earned the save. He surrendered one run on two hits with four strikeouts.

GAME TWO: LANE 10, KENTUCKY STATE 8
The chances were readily available for the Thorobreds, but unfortunately they couldn't take full advantage as they fell to the Dragons, 10-8.

Kentucky State, with a run already in, had bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the fifth. They would get one run home in on a two-out, bases loaded walk to pull to within 9-6. A leadoff triple by Sims got the sixth inning going, he came home on a Starks single.

After Starks moved to second on a wild pitch, Thompson put a charge into a pitch, but it was hauled in at the base of the wall. A fielding error allowed KSU to pull to within a run heading into the final inning.

However, Lane got an insurance run in the seventh.

Sims extended his hitting streak to 17 games, going 2-for-5 with two runs scored, while Starks was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.