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RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University baseball team looks to keep it's momentum going as it opens Ohio Valley Conference play against the Belmont Bruins on Thursday.
The games, originally scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will now be played on Thursday and Friday due to the incoming winter weather in the Richmond area. The first game of the series is set for 2 p.m. on Thursday, while games two and three will be a double-header on Friday getting underway at noon.
The Colonels (7-6) are riding a four-game win streak as they edged in-state rival Western Kentucky in 10 innings last night, 16-15.
Alex Holderbach notched his fourth hit of the night with the bases loaded in the tenth, bringing
Cornell Nixon home for the game winning run.
Shea Sullivan and
Daniel McFarland also had four hits each in a big offensive outing for the Colonels.
Sullivan currently leads the team in hits with 20, and RBIs with 17.
Ben Fisher is right behind him with 19 hits and 14 RBIs. Nixon has 16 hits of his own, and leads both the team and the OVC in stolen bases with seven. McFarland has come on strong after missing a few games, picking up 12 hits over the last four games.
Belmont (5-7) lost on a walk-off to Western Kentucky on Tuesday. The Bruins are led by Matt Cogen's 18 hits and Brennan Washington's 11 RBIs.
Eastern will start the reigning addias OVC Co-Pitcher of the Week
Jack Piekos on Thursday. The junior won the first OVC Pitcher of the Week award for EKU since 2013 with a six inning, 10 strikeout performance against Youngstown State on March 3. Piekos allowed no runs in the outting.
Aaron Ochsenbein will start game one of the double-header on Friday, with
Bryan Quillens starting the second game.
The Bruins will roll out Tyler Vaughn on Thursday, followed by Dylan King and Connor Etheridge on Friday.
