Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Behind the spectacular pitching of
Logan Hershenow and
Aaron Ochsenbein, Eastern Kentucky beat preseason Ohio Valley Conference favorite Southeast Missouri, 5-1, in the conference opener for both teams on Sunday in Edwardsville, Illinois.
The Redhawks won game two of the doubleheader, 12-6.
Due to weather and field conditions in Cape Girardeau, the two teams are playing at the Simmons Baseball Complex on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
In game one, Hershenow (1-3) was stellar on his way to earning his first win of the season. The senior allowed just one run on five hits over seven innings of work. He walked one and struck out six.
Sophomore
Ben Fisher broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the sixth. His sacrifice fly to center field allowed
TJ Alas to score what proved to be the game winning run. The Colonels got some insurance when two runs scored off a double by
Mandy Alvarez in the seventh and when
Luke Wurzelbacher hit a solo home run in the eighth. It was the first round-tripper of the season for the junior.
Ochsenbein, a freshman, was nearly perfect in pitching the final two innings. He did not allow a hit, walked one and got five of the six outs via strikeouts.
Alvarez finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Alas and
Shea Sullivan each had two hits.
Southeast Missouri (5-7, 1-1 OVC) scored the first five runs of the second game and led 9-1 after three innings.
Kyle Nowlin got the Colonels (5-8, 1-1 OVC) on the board with a solo home run to lead off the second inning. It was his second dinger of the season.
Eastern cut the deficit to 9-3 in the fifth, but that's as close as the Colonels would get. Back-to-back doubles by
Doug Teegarden and Alvarez to start the inning scored one run. Two batters later, Nowlin drove in Alvarez with a single up the middle.
Nowlin went 4-for-5 with a run and three RBIs. Teegarden finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored. Alvarez, Wurzelbacher and
Blake Sides also had two-hit games.
No Redhawk had more than two hits or more than two RBIs in the game. Branden Boggetto was 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs.
The two teams will close out their three game series on Monday at 2 p.m. ET
