RICHMOND, Ky. – Sophomore Aaron Barrows went 3-for-5 with a career-high four RBI but it wasn't enough as Dayton used an eight-run eighth on its way to a 9-8 victory over the Eastern Kentucky baseball team on Tuesday afternoon at Turkey Hughes Field. EKU falls to 22-25-1 with the loss while the Flyers improve to 20-31.

Eastern entered the eighth inning up 4-1, but the Flyers put on their first two runners against EKU reliever Jim Clancy who then gave up a three-run home run to Bobby Getty which tied the score at four.

Clancy followed by hitting Jim Mercer and the Colonels turned to junior closer McKenzie Willoughby who retired the first batter he faced but then gave up an infield single to bring up Cole Tyrell who reached on a Colonel error to load the bases.

Willoughby struck out the next hitter but then gave up a two-run single to Kevin Miller who went to second on an error by the Colonel outfield which also allowed Tyrell to score all the way from first. Michael Massa then capped the inning with the Flyers second home run of the inning, a two-run shot to left-center.

EKU answered back with four runs of its own in the bottom of the inning to draw within one. Sophomore Matt Davis doubled to lead off and then came home to score when the Flyers threw the ball away trying to complete a double play off a Clint Seymour grounder. Barrows then came up with two outs and runners and first and third and smashed a long three-run home run, his first of the season, to make it 9-8.

But Dayton reliever Chris Rubio recovered to get the final out of the eighth and then retired the Colonels in order in the ninth to pick up his first save.

The Flyers took an early lead with a run in the fourth, but Eastern responded with two in the fifth on an RBI double from Shawn Flora and an RBI single from Barrows.

The Colonels added single runs in the sixth and seventh on run-scoring singles from Seymour and junior Tyler Barnett to take the 4-1 lead to eighth.

Freshman Jim Clancy (3-2) took the loss for Eastern while Phil Ernst picked up his first victory of the season for the Flyers with 0.2 innings of scoreless relief.

Eastern returns to action on Friday, traveling to Austin Peay for a three-game series that will conclude the 2007 regular season.