Box Score

OXFORD, Ohio. – The Eastern Kentucky University softball team fell to Miami (Ohio), 15-2, on Wednesday afternoon in Oxford.

Miami (Ohio) (17-6, 8-0 MAC) scored four runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back.
 
The Redhawks only managed one hit in the bottom of the first, but it was a big one. A lead off hit by pitch, an EKU error, and a walk loaded the bases in the bottom of the first with no one out. Adriana Barlow delivered, taking a 1-2 pitch over the fence to give the Redhawks a 4-0 advantage.
 
Miami (Ohio) pushed one across in the second and six across on two more home runs in the third to take an 11-0 lead.  
 
Eastern Kentucky (18-9, 10-4 OVC) left a runner stranded in each of the first three innings but could never push anything across.
 
Vianna Barron got things started in the top of the fourth with a hit by pitch. Mollie Paulick brought home Barron with a double to right center. Paulick later scored on a wild pitch.
 
Miami (Ohio) hit four home runs on the contest.
 
Paulick went 1-for-2 with one double and one RBI. Sammi Miller, Ariyana Miranda and Samantha Reynoso each had a hit.
 
Eastern hits the road on Friday for a three-game series against conference foe Belmont in Nashville. First pitch against the Bruins is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Friday.