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Alex Hamilton on the EKU Baseball team at Austin Peay on 04-26-2014
Alex Hamilton struck out six in EKU's game-one victory.
4
Southern Illinois SIU 1-4
5
Winner Eastern Kentucky EKU 1-3
Southern Illinois SIU
1-4
4
Final
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Eastern Kentucky EKU
1-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Illinois SIU 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 6 2
Eastern Kentucky EKU 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 X 5 9 0

W: Langfels, Cameron (1-0) L: Whitmer,Chad (0-1)

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Southern Illinois SIU 1-5
4
Winner Eastern Kentucky EKU 2-3
Southern Illinois SIU
1-5
3
Final
4
Eastern Kentucky EKU
2-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Illinois SIU 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 6 0
Eastern Kentucky EKU 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 4 10 2

W: McGee, Luke (1-0) L: McPheron,Austin (0-1) S: Gullo, Ben (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Colonels Sweep Southern Illinois Doubleheader

Game 1 Box Score  |  Game 2 Box Score

EMERSON, Ga. – Eastern Kentucky earned a pair of one-run victories over Southern Illinois on Saturday at the LakePoint Sports complex in Emerson, Georgia.
 
The Colonels (2-3) earned their first victory of the season with a 5-4 win in game one of the doubleheader.  EKU edged Southern Illinois (1-5) by a score of 4-3 in the second game.
 
Despite a two-run home run from TJ Alas in the third inning of game one, Eastern Kentucky trailed 4-2 going into the bottom of the eighth.  With two outs and two runners on, newcomer Mandy Alvarez hit his first home run as a Colonel to tie the game.  Kyle Nowlin scored later in the inning on a SIU error to give EKU the lead heading into the ninth.
 
Cameron Langfels retired the side in order in the top of the ninth to complete the comeback victory.  Langfels (1-0) earned the win after pitching two innings of hitless relief.  Sophomore Alex Hamilton started and gave up three runs on three hits in six innings of work.  He walked four and struck out six on his way to his first career quality start.
 
Alvarez finished 1-for-4 with a run and two RBIs.  Alas went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBIs.  Doug Teegarden had two hits in three at bats and scored once.
 
Alvarez went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and fellow newcomer Luke McGee gave up just four hits in 5-plus innings of work to help Eastern Kentucky win game two.
 
Nowlin's double in the first inning scored Alvarez and Alas to stake Eastern to a 2-0 lead.  An RBI single by Alvarez in the second made it a 3-0 game.  Up by two in the fourth, Alvarez pushed in what would prove to be the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly to center.
 
McGee (1-0) allowed two runs on four hits, walked one and struck out three in five and one-third innings.  Alvarez finished 3-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs.  Alas had two hits and junior Teegarden scored twice.
 
Hunter Anderson's two-run home run in the top of the sixth got Southern Illinois within a run, but that is as close as the Salukis would get.  SIU got the tying run to third and the go-ahead run on first with two outs in the ninth inning, but Ben Gullo got Michael Klein to ground out to third to end the game.  Gullo pitched the final two innings to earn the save.  He allowed one hit, one walk and hit one batter.
 
The two teams are scheduled to conclude their series with a single game on Sunday beginning at noon.
 
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