Box Scores:  Game 1  |  Game 2

RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky swept a doubleheader against Austin Peay on Saturday and won the Ohio Valley Conference series 2-1.
 
EKU (19-14, 7-5 OVC) won the first game 9-3 and took game two from the Governors (15-15, 9-6 OVC) by a score of 11-3.  The Colonels have now won three straight conference series.
 
Game one featured a match-up of two of the top pitchers in the OVC – Eastern's Kaven Brown and APSU's Jacques Pucheu.  Brown began the day with a conference-best six wins and fifth in the league with a 2.47 ERA.  Pucheu was the OVC leader in ERA (1.20) and opposing batting average (.142), and third in wins (4).
 
The pitching duel never materialized.  The Colonels scored for runs in the bottom of the second and never looked back, chasing Pucheu after four innings.  Will Johnson got Eastern on the board with a two-run single up the middle.  He later scored on an error to cap the inning and make it a 4-1 game in favor of the home team.
 
Garrett Spain scored on a passed ball in the top of the fourth to get Austin Peay within two, 4-2.  EKU pulled away in the bottom of the fifth with another four-run inning.  Johnson started it with a home run and A.J. Lewis added a two-run double to left.  A sacrifice fly by Logan Thomason gave the Colonels an 8-2 advantage.
 
Brown upheld his end of the match-up.  The senior allowed three runs, only two of which were earned, on seven hits in eight innings of work.  He walked two and struck out nine while throwing 127 pitches. 
 
Johnson was 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBIs in the first game.  Ryland Kerr went 4-for-5 with two runs and an RBI.
 
Pucheu allowed eight runs on eight hits in four innings.  He walked three and struck out five.  David Martinez had a 2-for-5 game with a run driven in for APSU.
 
Both teams scored early in game two.  Spain staked Austin Peay to an early lead with a 2-run home run over the wall in right field.  Charlie Ludwick capped a three-run bottom of the inning for Eastern Kentucky with a two-run single to left center.
 
With the game tied 3-3 in the bottom of the third, a single by Ludwick scored Chris Botsoe and gave EKU a lead it would never relinquish.  Johnson hit his second home run of the day – a solo shot to center – in the fourth.  Later in the inning, Lewis added an RBI single to make it 6-3. 
 
The Colonels scored five runs in the seventh and eighth to pull away.
 
Aaron Ochsenbein (2-0) came on in relief with two on and two outs in the top of the fifth and EKU nursing a three-run lead.  With one pitch, he got a fly ball to end the threat.  He then tossed the next four innings without allowing a hit and striking out six batters.
 
Johnson finished 4-for-5 with two runs and an RBI.  Ludwick had three hits and three RBIs.
 
Spain was 2-for-4 with a run and two RBIs for the Governors.
 
EKU will play at Northern Kentucky on Wednesday.  The game is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.