Box Score
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Box Score

RICHMOND, Ky. – With the tying run at second base, senior reliever Myles Scott got a fly ball to left field to end the game and give Eastern Kentucky an 8-7 victory over visiting Ohio on Tuesday at Turkey Hughes Field.
 
The Colonels (23-29) started the top of the ninth with a two-run lead.  After back-to-back walks to start the inning, Scott came on to try to extinguish the comeback bid.  A sacrifice bunt recorded the first out, but moved the runners to second and third.  Ty Black scored from third on ground ball to short to close the gap to a single run.  With a 2-2 count, Scott got Connor Callery to fly out to end the game.
 
Kenny Hostrander's bases loaded, two run single in the bottom of the fifth inning broke a 5-5 tie before a 30 minute rain delay interrupted play in the top of the sixth.  Hostrander finished the day 2-for-3 with a run and two RBIs.
 
Ohio closed the gap to a single run in the top of the eighth on an RBI double by Jake Madsen that made it a 7-6 game.  The Bobcats had runners on second and third with two outs, but Cody Creamer got clean-up hitter John Adryan to fly out to straight-away center field to end the inning.
 
Freshman Shea Sullivan tacked on what proved to be the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth with an RBI single through the left side of the infield.
 
After falling behind 3-0 in the first two innings, TJ Alas turned the game around with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the second.  A sacrifice fly by Logan Starnes got EKU on the board.  Two batters later, Alas drove the first pitch he saw over the right field wall with the bases loaded to put the Colonels up 5-3.  He finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored and four driven in.
 
The Bobcats tied it on Callery's two-out RBI single up the middle in the top of the fifth.  He had three hits in five at bats, scored a run and drove in one.
 
Freshman Caleb Johnson (5-0) picked up the win after coming on in the second and pitching three and two-thirds innings.  He allowed two runs, only one of which was earned, on five hits while walking a pair of batters.  Creamer pitched three innings, allowed two runs on three hits, walked three and struck out two.
 
Matt Mikolajczak (0-1) suffered the loss after allowing two runs on one hit in two-thirds of an inning.  He recorded both outs via strike outs.
 
Eastern Kentucky will conclude the 2014 regular season with a three-game series at home against Murray State.  The series opener against the Thoroughbreds is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m.