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MARTIN, Tenn. – The baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Tennessee-Martin with a 7-6 victory on Saturday at Skyhawk Field.
 
The Colonels (12-16, 5-4 OVC) have won two straight conference series, going 5-1 in their last six Ohio Valley Conference games.
 
Eastern added much needed runs in the seventh and the eighth innings.  Nick Howie hit a solo home run in the eighth, his second home run in as many games and fifth of the season.  It proved to be the game winning run.
 
After UTM scored one run in the eighth to close the gap to just one run, and with the tying run on first and two outs in the inning, Aaron Ochsenbein came on and struck out Jordan Stoner to end the threat.  Ochsenbein allowed one hit in the ninth before getting a double play to end the game and pick up his fifth save.
 
Howie finished 2-for-3 with a run and three RBIs.  He had eight RBIs combined in the final two games of the series.  Cornell Nixon and Ryland Kerr scored two runs each.
 
RBI singles by Alex Holderbach and Howie in the top of the third inning tied the score 2-2.  However, the Skyhawks grabbed the lead back in the bottom of the inning on a two-run home run by Ethan Whitley. 
 
The Colonels came right back and took the lead again with three runs in the top of the fourth.  With the bases loaded, Tyler Romanik drove in one run with a single to left.  Howie and Jake Lewis then drew walks to push in two more runs and make it a 5-4 game in favor of the visitors.

The Colonels are scheduled to play at Xavier on Tuesday.  First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.