Nick Elsen, Michael McNamara and Michael Turner all socked two-run homers and the Golden Flashes recorded their first four-game sweep of a conference series with a 10-5 victory on Sunday afternoon at Bowling Green.

The four-game sweep is the first of its kind for the Golden Flashes and the first conference series sweep since taking three from Eastern Michigan in May of 2019. Kent State scored 47 runs in the four-game series, scoring in double digits in all four games. The Flashes scored 10-plus runs in six-straight games from April 17-29 of 2019 doing so against NIU, Canisius and Ohio.

As he did all series long, Ben Carew started off a three-run first inning for the Golden Flashes with a single. Carew went to second on a wild pitch, then scored on a Michael Turner single. Two batters later, Nick Elsen belted his sixth homer of the season and third of the series, giving Kent State a 3-0 lead. For the series, Carew went 11-18 (.611) with 10 runs scored and Elsen hit .313 with three homers and 11 driven in.

Bowling Green scored single tallies in the second and the third to make it a one-run ball game into the fifth. In that inning, Kent State scored three runs without the benefit of a base hit. Four Golden Flashes were walked, Collin Mathews was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, Mack Timbrook scored on a wild pitch and Elsen drove in Turner on a sacrifice fly.

The Falcons would not go quietly on Sunday, scoring a run in the fifth, sixth and seventh. Trevor Pittman came on in relief in the seventh and struck out a pair of Falcons to leave the bases loaded and keep it a 6-5 Kent State lead. McNamara's two run home run in the eighth provided some breathing room. Jack Zimmerman relieved Pittman in the eighth and the lefty saved a run after tagging out Bowling Green's Adam Fallon at the plate as he tried to score from second on a wild pitch. Zimmerman got the final six outs to earn his third save. Turner took most of the drama out of Zimmerman's ninth inning with a monstrous blast to right field in the top of the inning.

Max Rippl got the Sunday start and got his third win of the season after going the first five, allowing three runs on seven hits and fanning five. The sweep moves Kent State to 12-11 on the season and 5-3 in MAC play. Bowling Green fell to 8-14 overall and 6-6 in the MAC. Kent State returns home next weekend to face the Toledo Rockets for a four-game set. First pitch on Friday night is set for 5 p.m.