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Box Score

RICHMOND, Ky. – For the fourth time in the last six games, and third straight time against an Ohio Valley Conference team, Eastern Kentucky scored 10 or more runs on its way to a 30-4 victory over Tennessee-Martin on Friday.

The Colonels (10-20, 6-7 OVC) scored in every inning in which they came to the plate.  EKU has reached the 30-run mark in two straight conference games.

Junior catcher Sean Hagen finished 5-for-7 with seven RBIs and two runs scored.  Freshman Doug Teegarden had five hits in six at bats, scored four times and drove in three runs.

Eastern broke a 1-1 tie with five runs in the bottom of the second, then added five more in the third and five more in the fourth.  Kenny Hostrander had a two-run single in the second.  Bryan Soloman had a bases clearing double down the left field line in the third inning. 

After UTM retired the first two batters of the fourth, six straight Colonels reached base, including three on doubles.  Shaun Ball followed back-to-back doubles by Hagen and Soloman with a rocket 2-run shot over the right field fence for a 16-1 lead.

It was Ball’s team-leading seventh home run of the season.

Three more runners came home in the fifth to extend the lead to 19-1.  The Colonels batted around in the second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth innings.

The Skyhawks (9-24, 2-14 OVC) stopped the bleeding with three runs in the top of the sixth.  Hagen Nelson had a 2-run single.  However, EKU answered right back with three in the bottom half of the inning off a bases loaded double by Hagen.

Soloman added a solo home run in the eighth, his second of the season, to extended the advantage to 25-4.  Later in the inning, freshman Luke Wurzelbacher hit a grand slam, his second dinger of the season.

Soloman went 4-for-7 with five RBIs and three runs scored.  Hostrander finished 4-for-6 with four runs and three driven in.

Brent Cobb (3-5) started and earned the win after allowing four runs on five hits over six innings.  He walked one and struck out one.  Dan Tobik (1-5) suffered the loss after making it through just one and two-thirds innings.  He allowed six runs on five hits and walked two.  UT Martin used a total of seven pitchers.

Six different Skyhawks recorded one hit each.  Nelson finished 1-for-2 with two RBIs.

The Colonels and Skyhawks will continue their series with game two on Saturday at 2 p.m.