Box Score
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Box Score

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Four home runs and the solid relief pitching of Ben Gullo sent Eastern Kentucky to a 7-6 victory in the series finale at Austin Peay.
 
Bryan Soloman led off the fifth with a single to left field.  Sean Hagen hit EKU's fourth and final long ball, a two run shot that broke a 5-5 tie and put the visitors on top for good.  It was Hagen's eighth round-tripper of the season.  The senior went 2-for-5 with a run scored and two driven in. 
 
Gullo (2-1) came on in relief in the fourth.  He allowed one run on four hits, walked one and struck out six in four and two-thirds innings. 
 
With Eastern up by one, Rolando Gautier led off the bottom of the ninth with a walk.  Closer Anthony Bazzani came on to replace Gullo.  A sacrifice bunt got the first out, but moved the tying run into scoring position.  A long fly ball to center for the second out allowed Gautier to move 90 feet from tying the game.  On a 1-2 count, Bazzani got Ridge Smith swinging to end the game and earn his sixth save of the season. 
 
Soloman finished 2-for-5 with two runs, two RBIs and a home run.
 
For the first time in the series, Austin Peay scored first.  Logan Gray drove in a run on a fielder's choice and P.J. Torres scored from third when another runner was caught stealing.
 
With a runner on in the third, Soloman hit his 10th home run of the season and second of the series to tie the game 2-2.  The Governors answered in the bottom half of the third.  Alex Robles and Smith each drove in one with singles through the left side.  Torres capped the three-run frame with an RBI single to left.
 
Eastern used the long ball to tie the game in the fourth.  With one out and one on, #Doug Teegarden# sent the ball over the wall in right for a two-run shot.  #Luke Wurzelbacher# followed with a solo dinger over the scoreboard in left to tie the game 5-5.
 
Teegarden went 1-for-2 with a run, two RBIs, a walk and was hit by a pitch.
 
APSU closed to within one on a run-scoring single by Torres in the bottom half of the inning.  Torres had a 3-for-4 day with a run and two RBIs.  Smith had three hits in five at bats, scored twice and drove in one.
 
Governor starter Alex Belew (0-1) suffered the loss after giving up seven runs on eight hits in four and one-third innings.  He walked two and struck out two. 
 
The Colonels will play at Marshall on Tuesday.  The game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.