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The Herd will close out the 2001 season with a four-game series at Eastern Michigan this weekend.

HUNTINGTON, WV -- Eastern Kentucky completed a two-game sweep of the season series with Marshall on Tuesday, spoiling the Herd's senior day and sending Marshall to it's seventh consecutive loss with a 9-3 decision.

Marshall falls to 22-27 with the loss while the Colonels improve to 21-27 with the victory. The Herd will close out the 2001 season with a four-game series at Eastern Michigan this weekend.

Tuesday's game, which was the final one at University Heights for five Marshall seniors, started out as a pitchers duel between Marshall senior Steve Fowler (5-2) and EKU's Spencer Boley. Neither team managed to get a runner past second base in the first four innings.

The Colonels finally broke through in the fifth with three runs thanks to a botched double-play grounder, a throwing error on a pickoff and a wild pitch. EKU added two more runs in the seventh thanks to consecutive hits from Robby Price, Josh Anderson and John Myles and a balk.

That was more than enough support for the Colonels' pitching staff, which sent six men to the mound in the game. Starter Spencer Boley allowed just one hit in three innings, and Keith Murnane (7-5) surrendered just two in two frames. Four others worked one inning each.

EKU blew the game open in the ninth with four runs, all off reliever Chris Meadows. Myles delivered a three-run homer for the Colonels and Gabe Thomas followed two outs later with a solo shot.

Marshall scored an unearned run in the seventh and added two in the ninth, one on David Colangelo's school record sixth triple of the year, and the other on a fielding error.

Anderson had three hits to lead EKU to the win. Myles, Adam Crowder and Price had two hits each. Colangelo and Homer Renshaw had two hits each to lead Marshall. Seniors Jason Ricceri, Jason Brooks, Matt Eldridge and Bryan Colley went a combined 2-for-17 in the heart of the Marshall lineup.

The Herd will open it's four-game set at Eastern Michigan on Friday night at 6 p.m.