CLAKRSVILLE, Tenn. - Sophomore Dylan McMaine hit a go-ahead solo home run with one out in the ninth inning to lead the Eastern Kentucky baseball team to a 5-4 victory over Austin Peay in game one of a doubleheader on Friday afternoon. With the victory the Colonels secured a spot in next week's 2007 O'Reilly OVC Tournament. APSU won game two 2-0 despite the second one-hitter in three starts from sophomore Christian Friedrich. The Colonels will conclude the 2007 regular season against Austin Peay on Saturday at 2 p.m. EST.

Eastern finished the day 23-26-1 overall and 12-11 in the OVC while the Governors sit at 35-20 and 18-8.

Game one went to ninth tied at four and Austin Peay starter Shawn Kelley retired sophomore Matt Davis to begin the inning. But McMaine followed by smashing the first pitch he saw from Kelley over the right field fence to give EKU a 5-4 lead.

Junior McKenzie Willoughby (4-3), who entered the game to begin the eighth, allowed the first two runners to reach in the ninth but then threw out a runner at third on an attempted sacrifice bunt for the first out.

He then got Josh Kemph to fly into a double play to end the game and secure Eastern's fifth straight OVC Tournament berth.

APSU took an early 4-0 lead with a run in the first on a sacrifce fly and three more in the third highlighted by a two-run triple from Will Hogue.

But EKU rallied back to tie the score with four runs in the sixth. Eastern put runners on second and third with one out and senior Tony Wells followed with an RBI single to make it 4-1.

Junior Joe Oliver cut it to 4-2 with an RBI double and Davis followed with the big hit of the inning, a two-run double to right then tied the score at four.

Willoughby picked up the victory with his 2.0 scoreless innings of work, the fifth straight appearence he has not allowed an earned run. Kelly (10-3) took the loss despite pitching the complete game.

Friedrich (4-4) ran into some more tough luck in game two. The sophomore southpaw pitched his third straight complete game and hurled his second one-hitter over that span.

Friedrich retired the first 10 batters to face him, but then walked Tyler Farrar with one-out in the fourth and Jake Lane followed with a two-run home run to give the Governors a 2-0 lead.

Matt Reynolds made those two runs stand up, throwing a three-hitter while walking only one and striking out four.

Eastern put together two scoring threats against Reynolds as Davis doubled with one-out in the second but was stranded there and Oliver reached second in the fourth but Reynolds got McMaine to line into a double play to end the inning and the Colonels did not threaten again.