MOREHEAD, Kentucky - The WVU Tech baseball team lost at NCAA DI Morehead State University Wednesday evening, 13-5. With the loss, the Golden Bears now hold a record of 34-14, the Eagles improve to 24-18.

Entering the game, Tech just received votes in the NAIA Coaches' Poll for the first time in program history and went 17-3 in their last 20 contests while the Eagles are coming off a series win at SIU Edwardsville where MSU pitchers struck out 40 batters on the weekend.

Tech plated all three runs in the fifth inning, marking two of their six hits during that at-bat. Junior Trevor Lam started off the inning with a single through the left side and fellow classmate Sebastian Gomez Herrera followed that with another one-bag hit to left field.

Junior Marcus Rodriguez was next in the line-up and reached base by error off a sacrifice bunt that scored Lam and Herrera while advancing to third himself. Senior Dylan Harvey, who marked Tech's lone RBI, hit a sacrifice fly to plate Rodriguez for the team's final score of the game.

Senior Doug Prather was the only Golden Bear with a multi-hit game, finishing 2-for-3 at the plate with a double. Freshman Roy Suzuki also managed a double in his 1-for-4 effort at-bat.

The Golden Bears saw pitching from seniors Tommy Weaver, Brandon Tucker and Josh Hudson, juniors Heath Utterback, Jayson Sykora, Chris Davidson and Tanner Levine and sophomore Nick Brumfield.

Utterback was dealt the loss after 0.2 innings of work. Weaver, Hudson, Brumfield and Levine marked a strike out each.

The Gold and Blue will next travel to Alice Lloyd College for two games Saturday in Pippas Passes, Kentucky, first pitch is set for 1 p.m.

Sunday the team will play at H.P. Hunnicutt Field in Princeton, West Virginia for a Bluefield State College hosted doubleheader and will celebrate their seniors.