Weller’s no-hit effort leads Southern Indiana past Morehead State 6‑2

MARION, Ill. (Interstat) — Ryan Weller threw seven innings of no-hit baseball, striking out seven, as the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles defeated the Morehead State Eagles 6-2 on Tuesday in the Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship. Weller allowed two earned runs but surrendered no hits, exiting after the seventh. Trey O’Neil added two hitless innings with three strikeouts in relief. Southern Indiana scored six runs on 10 hits. The Screaming Eagles took an early lead in the first on a groundout by Lane Wall that scored Hunter Miller. In the second, Zion Stephens tripled home Noah Foster, and Miller singled to bring in Stephens. Morehead State answered with a solo homer by Alex Kean in the bottom of the second and an RBI single by Evan Kearns in the third. Southern Indiana pulled away in the sixth on a run-scoring double by Parker Martin and a two-run homer by Foster. Devin Costa tossed three scoreless innings for Morehead State. The Screaming Eagles improved to 28-27, while Morehead State fell to 31-23.