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ROCK HILL, S.C.  – The Colonels' offense ignited for a season high 12 runs on 11 RBIs, as the EKU softball picked up its first win of the season with a 12-2 victory over North Carolina Central University Friday at the Winthrop/Adidas Invitational.
 
Eastern held a 6-2 lead over NC Central in Friday's second game, before three Colonels went deep in the inning, adding six insurance runs.
 
Senior Krislyn Campos delivered the first homer of the inning, after Brooke Harrison reached on Eagle error. Later in the inning, Sydney Vaughn singled before Amber Murray legged out a double to center field. With two away, senior Paige Murphy drove a three run shot over the wall in right field to extend the EKU lead to 11-2. Then, sophomore Rachel Minogue followed suit and belted one to right for good measure.
 
The Colonels plated one in the third to take a 1-0 lead on an RBI single from Mingoue. Eastern added a run in the fourth following an RBI sacrifice fly from Brittany Oldaker which scored Mia Sanchez.

N.C. Central answered with two in the bottom of the fourth to knot the game at two.

Sophomore Hannah Clark's RBI single in the fourth helped EKU regain the lead in the fifth, as the Colonels plated three more in the sixth. Murray dropped an RBI single to center for the first run of the inning. Following a single from Sanchez to load the bases, Murphy drew a base on balls for another RBI as EKU went up 5-2. Murray later scored in the inning, putting Eastern up four before the plentiful seventh inning.
 
Freshmen Ashton Martin and Mollie Paulick split time in the win, scattering for four hits and eight strikeouts and giving up just two runs in the win.
 
In Friday's first game, East Tennessee State University used a two-run fourth inning to pull away with a 4-2 win.
 
Tied at two, ETSU's Danille Knoetze's two run homer gave the Buccaneers a two run cushion for the win.
 
In the top of the second, junior Johnkyria Alston sent one over the wall in center to score Campos which put EKU up 2-0.
 
ETSU, however, answered in the home half of the inning with two runs of its own to even the score at two.
 
Minogue finished the day 5-for-7 with two RBIs to lead the Colonels' offense. Sanchez, Alston, Clark, and Murray each had multiple hits on the day.
 
Eastern (1-6) continues play Saturday as it takes on Mount Saint Mary's University at 1 p.m. before squaring off against Bucknell University at 3 p.m.