The Murray State Racers bowed out of the 2025 NCAA College World Series Monday in a no-hit 3-0 defeat to the Arkansas Razorbacks at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Racers (44-17) amazing run in winning the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, the Oxford Regional and the Durham Super Regional came to an end on the no-hitter by Arkansas sophomore Gage Wood. The no-hitter against the Racers marked the first time since 2002 at Auburn.
Gage, who was a high school team of MSU's freshman short stop Connor Cunningham, beat the Racers who only had one base runner in the eighth inning when Dom Decker was hit by a pitch.
Game Day Story Lines
- Among the Racers' efforts this season were some high finishes in the 86 seasons of MSU Baseball.
- Jonathan Hogart tied for MSU season record of 22 home runs that was set by MSU Hall of Famer Wes Cunningham (2010).
- Hogart had 26 doubles, second to Davis Sims who had 29 in 2018.
- Hogart had 88 hits for third in a single season to Cunningham's 95 in 2010.
- Dustin Mercer had 92 hits, second to Cunningham.
- Mercer broke his own single season record with 256 at bats, he had 249 in 2023.
- Mercer is second in all-time hits at 256 behind Tyler Lawrence at 266 (2014-17).
- Luke Mistone was third for a single season with 83.
- Carson Garner tied the MSU career RBI mark at 189, to share the record with Tyler Lawrence (2014-17).
- Garner finished his MSU career with 47 home runs, second all-time at MSU behind only Gary Blaine who hit 49 between 1981-84.
- Garner set the single season walks mark with 60, besting the 58 by Jack Perconte in 1974.
- Garner was second in career walks with 162, behind Jack Perconte had 167 between 1973-76.
- Dom Decker finished second in all-time single season hit by pitch with 15, Derek Yoder had 27 in 2015.
- Decker ended the season with a streak of 43 straight games of reaching base.
- As a team, the Racers set all-time season records for At bats, Runs, Hits, doubles, triples, RBI, games and wins.
- The MSU pitching staff set a new single season record with 293, besting the 280 by the 2023 staff.
- 2025 was the 86th season of collegiate baseball at Murray State & third in the Missouri Valley Conference.
- MSU made their fourth NCAA appearance (1975, 1979, 2003, 2025).
- The Racers are 7-10 all-time in the NCAA.
- The Racers were the first MVC team to advance to the CWS since Missouri State in 2003.
- Since the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1999, Murray State was just the fourth regional No. 4 seed to make it to Omaha.
- The Racers join Fresno State (2008), Stony Brook (2012), and most recently, Oral Roberts (2023).
- The last time the Racers were on the losing end of a no-hitter was on March 2, 2002 at Auburn by a score of 9-0.