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RICHMOND, Ky. – Fifth place Eastern Kentucky University will host second place Jacksonville State for a three-game Ohio Valley Conference baseball series this weekend.

Game one of the series will be at 3 p.m. on Friday.  Game two is scheduled for noon on Saturday.  The series finale is set for Sunday at 1 p.m.

EKU (17-28, 13-10 OVC) sits in fifth place with two weekends remaining in the regular season.  The top six teams in the OVC standings qualify for the conference tournament.  Eastern has a two game lead on sixth place Southeast Missouri and a 4.5 game lead on seventh place Morehead State.

Jacksonville State (27-22, 18-6 OVC) is tied with Belmont for second place.  Both teams are one game behind OVC leader Tennessee Tech.

Friday’s pitching match-up will feature OVC Pitcher of the Week Brent Cobb (5-5, 4.08 ERA) for Eastern Kentucky and Casey Antley (4-4, 5.13 ERA) for JSU.  Saturday’s starters are Ben Gullo (2-2, 4.58 ERA) for the Colonels and Taylor Shields (6-2, 3.73 ERA) for the Gamecocks.  Sunday’s pitching match-up is to be determined.

EKU has won 11 of its last 14 conference games.  Senior center fielder Austin Grisham enters the weekend with a 12-game hitting streak.

Eastern’s recent starting line-ups have featured four freshmen – Doug Teegarden (3B), Kyle Nowlin (LF), Kenny Hostrander (2B) and Luke Wurzelbacher (SS).