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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Eastern Kentucky University baseball team took the deciding game of this weekend’s conference series with Austin Peay on Sunday, 11-6. Three home runs in the seventh inning by seniors Matt Davis and Tyler Rehmel and freshman Michael Garcia sealed the victory for EKU.

With the victory, the surging Colonels (11-6, 2-1 OVC) have now won eight of their last nine games.

Sophomore Paul Duncan (3-2) started on the hill for EKU and picked up the victory, going six strong innings and allowing four runs (two unearned) on 10 hits.

Sophomore Matt Fyffe worked the seventh inning and allowed two runs on one hit, while freshman Matt Harris came on in the eighth and pitched the final two innings, holding the Governors scoreless.

Ricky Marshall (2-1) got the loss for APSU (9-12, 1-2 OVC), going 3.1 innings and allowing six runs on eight hits.

Rehmel paced EKU offensively, going 4-for-6 with three RBI and three runs scored. The Jasonville, Ind. native was a double shy of the cycle. Sophomore Ryan Faidley batted 3-for-3 on the day with a run scored while sophomore Jayson Langfels went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI.

Davis’s home run in the seventh extended his hitting streak to 14 games.

Adam Browett led APSU at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI. Trey Lucas, meanwhile, batted 3-for-4 with an RBI.

EKU got on the board first as Rehmel ripped a triple in the top of the first to score junior Anthony Ottrando. Rehmel then scored on a wild pitch to make it 2-0.

After APSU scored two to tie it in the home half of the first, the Governors plated two more in the second off a sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Greg Bachman to go ahead 4-2.

The Colonels got one run back in the third when freshman Jacob Daniel laced an RBI single up the middle. They then scored three runs in the fourth to take the lead. Rehmel started the rally with an RBI single. Langfels then plated Rehmel with a double down the left field line. Langfels was brought home by a sacrifice fly to left from junior Joey Stevens.

With one out in the seventh, Faidley walked and then scored on a home run by Garcia, the freshman’s third home run of the week. The next batter, freshman Richie Rodriguez, was hit by a pitch, and that led to Davis’s home run, a two-run blast to left field. Following a groundout by Ottrando, Rehmel concluded the five-run inning with a solo home run to left, his first of the season and the Colonels’ third of the inning.

The Governors got two runs back in the eighth before Harris came on to secure the victory.
 
EKU returns to action on Tuesday, March 24, when they travel to play Ohio University at 4:00 p.m.