Box Score

CLINTON, S.C. – With a 10-4 win on Sunday Eastern Kentucky completed a three-game sweep of Presbyterian College, starting the season 3-0 for the first time since 2001.
 
In 2001, EKU swept Samford on the road and then beat Indiana at a neutral site to begin the season 4-0.
 
Eastern beat Presbyterian 10-9 and 6-4 in the first two games of the series.
 
With the game tied 1-1 on Sunday, EKU platted five runs in the third and two more in the fourth to pull ahead.  The first six batters reached base to start the third inning.  Chris Botsoe broke the tie when he scored on a PC error.  Logan Thomason's two-run single made it 4-1.  After a double by Daniel Harris IV, Michael Brewer brought home two more with a single through the left side. 
 
In the fourth, Charlie Ludwick's sacrifice fly pushed the visitors out to a 7-1 lead.  Two batters later Harris drove in A.J. Lewis with an infield single.
 
After the Blue Hose scored three times in the bottom of the sixth to make it 8-4, Eastern Kentucky answered in the top of the seventh to put the game away.  A ground ball by pinch hitter Marcus Hill scored Brewer.  Chance Bodine scored on another PC error to make it 10-4.
 
Presbyterian committed five errors in the game.
 
Jake Lewis started on the mound and got the win.  He allowed one run on three hits in four innings of work for the Colonels.  The junior left-hander walked four and struck out three.  Thomason finished 3-for-4 with a run and two RBIs.  Botsoe went 2-for-5 with three runs scored.  Ludwick drove in three and scored once.  Brewer was 1-for-3 with a run and two RBIs.
 
Graham Mitchell had a 2-for-5 day with a run scored for Presbyterian.
 
The start of the game was delayed one hour and 45 minutes due to rain.   The two teams played seven innings in the series finale due to darkness.