NOTE:  Because of poor weather conditions on Saturday, game three of the series will be played Sunday at 2 p.m. ET

Game 1 Box Score  |  Game 2 Box Score

RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky ran its Ohio Valley Conference winning streak to six straight with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Southern Illinois Edwardsville on Friday at Earle Combs Stadium.  The Colonels won by scores of 15-3 and 10-7.
 
Because of poor weather conditions forecasted for Saturday, game three of the series will now be played on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.
 
Eastern (14-17, 7-4 OVC) clinched the series and has now won three straight conference series.  The Colonels have won seven of their last eight OVC games.
 
With game two tied 7-7, Daniel Harris IV led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a double down the left field line.  With two outs, Ryland Kerr brought Harris home, and gave Eastern an 8-7 lead, with a single to left center. 
 
After Alex Holderbach was hit by a pitch, Tyler Romanik drove in a run with a single down the right field line.  Nick Howie extended the EKU lead to 10-7 with a single to right.
 
Romanik finished 4-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs.  Kerr was 3-for-5 with two runs and two driven in.  Howie had a 2-for-4 day with three RBIs.
 
The Colonels scored three times in the third inning to build a 4-1 lead.  Romanik's RBI double got it started.  Howie and Will Johnson followed with back-to-back RBI ground outs.
 
The Cougars tied the game, 5-5, on Jared McCunn's two-run home run in the top of the fifth.
 
Howie's sacrifice fly in the bottom half of the fifth broke the tie and put Eastern in front 6-5.  Will Johnson drove in a run with a single down the left field line in the bottom of the seventh.
 
SIU Edwardsville scored twice in the top of the eighth to tie it.  Steven Pattan's single to right scored Bret Fehr to make it 7-7.
 
"Game two was about guts," EKU Head Coach Edwin Thompson said.  "We didn't play well, and we didn't play that well defensively.  But offensively we found a way to gut it out and that's really what it was.  It kept going back-and-forth and then ultimately we just knocked them out at the end.  I'm really proud of the guys.  That was the biggest thing, finding another way to win a series – three in-a-row.  Now, we get another chance to get a sweep on Sunday."
 
The Colonels wasted little time putting game one away, scoring 14 runs in the first two innings.  Alex Holderbach had a two-run double to get it started.  Harris capped a six-run first inning with a two-run, inside the park home run.
 
Kerr started the scoring in the second inning with a solo home run, his first of the season.  Harris had a two-run single later in the inning to make it 11-0 and giving him four RBIs in two innings.  Twelve batters would come to the plate in the eight-run second inning.  Kerr finished it off with a sacrifice fly to give the home squad a 14-0 lead.
 
Lead-off hitter Cornell Nixon started the game 4-for-4 with two runs and an RBI.  Harris had a 3-for-5 game with two runs and four RBIs.  Kerr went 3-for-3 with two runs and three RBIs.
 
SIUE avoided the shutout, and made it 15-1, with Pattan's sacrifice fly in the top of the fifth.
 
All nine EKU starters had at least one hit.  Seven Colonels had two or more hits.  Six players scored two or more runs.
 
Logan Teague (3-3) started and turned in his second quality start of the season.  He allowed just one run on five hits, walked one and struck out four over six innings.
 
"Any time you score 14 runs in the first two innings, you give your team a chance," Thompson said.  "I thought Logan did an outstanding job to give us another quality start on the mound and Nick Laster came in behind him to keep them at bay.  You know a lot of guys had a lot of hits, but more importantly we played great defense."