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MURRAY, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky concluded the 2013 regular season with a 9-8 loss at Murray State on Saturday.  EKU won the three game series 2-1.

The Colonels conclude the regular season with a 20-32 record and a 16-13 mark against Ohio Valley Conference teams.  After starting conference play 2-7, Eastern won 15 of its final 21 league games.

Eastern Kentucky will begin play at the OVC Tournament on Wednesday.  The No. 5 seeded Colonels will face the No. 4 seed Jacksonville State at 4 p.m. ET in Jackson, Tenn.

The Thoroughbreds (21-33, 9-21 OVC) jumped ahead first on Dylan Wheeler’s 2-run double in the bottom of the first.

A 3-run third inning put the Colonels on top.  With two outs, John Wilson kept the inning going with a single to center field.  After Kyle Nowlin was hit by a pitch, Doug Teegarden singled through the right side to plate EKU’s first run.  Shaun Ball followed with a double to left center to plate Nowlin and Teegarden for a 3-2 lead.

Murray State tied the score in the fourth.  A ball hit to the shortstop by Noah Zipko took a bad hop and allowed Mike Kozlowski to score the tying run.

Ball engineered the go-ahead run in the sixth.  He singled to center, stole second base and then scored on a two-out single through the left side by Alex Hughes.  Hughes followed Ball’s example, stealing second and then moving to third on a wild pitch.  Kenny Hostrander’s single up the middle scored Hughes and made it 5-3 in favor of the visitors.

Bryan Soloman and Luke Wurzelbacher each had RBI singles in a 3-run eighth inning to give Eastern Kentucky an 8-3 lead. 

MSU came right back and  took the lead with six runs in the bottom of the inning.  Three batters where hit by a pitch in the inning and two runs scored on a pair of wild pitches.

Ball finished 3-for-5 with a run and two RBIs for Eastern.  Kozlowski went 3-for-3 and scored three times for Murray State.

Eastern’s Matt Lynch made his first weekend start and turned in his second quality start of the season.  He allowed three runs on eight hits in six innings.  The junior did not walk a batter and struck out four
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