AUBURNDALE, Fla. - The Minnesota Morris baseball team returned to the diamond for the second day of games in central Florida Tuesday. Joey Hyde had a great pitching performance, but the Cougars dropped both games to Framingham State, 3-2 and 11-5.

In the opener, Hyde gave up a home run on the first batter he faced, but quickly settled down and was dominant over the next few innings. He retired the next three batters in the first, including strikeouts on the final two Framingham batters. In the second inning, he produced a rare four-strikeout frame. The third strikeout victim of the inning reached on a passed ball, but the senior came back to retire his fourth batter of the inning via the strikeout.

Hyde threw all seven innings collecting 10 strikeouts while allowing three runs (two earned) on just five hits.

Chandler Erickson's speed helped tie the game for the Cougars in the third. He singled with one out then stole both second and third to get into scoring position and later scored on an RBI groundout.

Framingham State scored twice in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead and that score held until the seventh. The Cougars scored once in the frame, but were not able to extend the game and fell by a run.

There was much more offense in the second game as the teams combined to score 16 runs and belt out 26 hits.

The Rams jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings, but the Cougars would storm back to tie it at 5 in the fifth. Thomas Eckstein, Connor Spindler, and Jackson Gessell each delivered run-producing hits as part of a 4-run fourth and Eckstein had another RBI single in the fifth to even the game.

Framingham State broke the tie with a run in the bottom of the fifth then scored five times in the sixth to take the nightcap.

Eckstein and Gessell each had three hits as the Cougars totaled 10 base hits.

Minnesota Morris (0-6) plays Becker College Wednesday for a single contest.