COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Junior Clint Seymour went 2-for-4 with a career-high five RBI but it wasn't enough as the Eastern Kentucky baseball team fell to Tennessee Tech, 9-8, on Brian Sprowl's walk-off RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon in Bush Stadium at Averitt Express Baseball Complex. Eastern falls to 13-11-1 overall and 4-2 in the OVC with the loss while the Golden Eagles improve to 16-10 and 3-3.

Eastern entered the ninth with an 8-7 lead but Jake New led off with a double to right center against EKU closer Eric Hash, and the Golden Eagles tied the game one-out later on a Sean Reilly RBI single.

Hash walked the next hitter to put runners on first and second, but then recovered to strike out Ryan Wardlow for the second out of the inning. Sprowl's then came up and singled to right to knock home Reilly and give Tech the victory.

The Golden Eagles opened up a 7-2 lead with three runs in the fifth highlighted by a Stuart Meinhart two-run home run.

But Eastern responded with three runs of its own in the sixth. The Colonels loaded the bases with one out in the inning to bring up Seymour who knocked a three-run double into right-center to make it 7-5.

EKU got within a run in the seventh on an RBI single from Seymour and then took the lead with two more in the eight highlighted by sophomore Matt Davis' go-ahead two-out run-scoring single.

Sophomore relief Adam Liberatore (2-1) posted his second win of the season, working 1.2 innings and striking out three.

Hash (2-2) took his second loss of the season, pitching 1.2 innings and walking three and striking out two.

Eastern returns to action on Tuesday, hosting Miami (Ohio) at 2 p.m.