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Clay Cartledge pitches against Northern Kentucky
4
Eastern Kentucky EKU 2-6
5
Winner Tulane TLN 6-3
Eastern Kentucky EKU
2-6
4
Final
5
Tulane TLN
6-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Eastern Kentucky EKU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 1
Tulane TLN 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 7 2

Game Recap: Baseball |

Colonels Stage Late Rally But Can't Complete Comeback At Tulane

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – Eastern Kentucky University fell behind 5-0 in the first three innings and then scored four runs in the eighth to draw within one, but couldn't complete the comeback in a 5-4 loss at Tulane on Friday in New Orleans.
 
Tulane starter Trey Cehajic struck out 11 and allowed only one hit in seven shutout innings.
 
However, once Cehajic left the game the Colonels (2-7) began to claw back.  Silas Shaffer reached on an error to start the eighth inning and Jackson Reid was hit by a pitch.  Carson Bittner brought both runners home with a double down the left field line, drawing EKU to within 5-2.  After Kobe Benson walked, Pedro Moreno drove in one with a single to center field.  Benson then scored on a wild pitch to make it a 1-run game.  Moreno was out at home plate on a wild pitch to end the inning.
 
Khaleel Pratt started the ninth with a double off the wall in right field.  Jackson Cauthron reached on a fielding error and Pratt moved to third.  With one out and runners at second and third, Tulane got a strikeout and a ground out to end the game.
 
Bittner finished 1-for-4 with a run and two RBIs.
 
Four EKU pitchers combined for 5 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.  Freshman right-hander Clay Cartledge provided 2 1/3 scoreless innings from the third through the fifth.  He did not allow a hit or a walk and struck out four.  Chardy Tierney pitched 1 2/3 without allowing a run.  Anthony Scarpino got the final out in the seventh with two runners on base.  Griffin Howell pitched around a leadoff single in the eighth to send the Colonels to the ninth down just one run.
 
Tulane (7-3) grabbed the lead as quickly as it could.  The first pitch to a Green Wave batter was sent over the wall in right field by Kaikea Harrison in the bottom of the first inning.  A bases loaded walk and a ground out pushed in two more runs in the first.  A 2-run double from Matthias Haas in the bottom of the third pushed the home team's lead to 5-0.
 
Harrison finished 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI for the Green Wave.
 
Game two of the series is scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.

 
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