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MOREHEAD, Ky. – The Morehead State softball team dropped two games to Eastern Kentucky by scores of 7-0 and 14-2 Friday afternoon at University Field.
 
The losses dropped the Eagles to 18-10 overall and 2-4 in Ohio Valley Conference play, while the Colonels improved to 22-12 and now sport a 5-1 OVC record.
 
Morehead State's bats were unable to get going as a duo of EKU pitchers held the Eagles to only four hits in both games.
 
EASTERN KENTUCKY 7, MOREHEAD STATE 0
 
Senior pitcher Chelsea McManaway (12-4) held the Colonels scoreless through the first five innings, and struck out ten batters in six innings, before a three-run home run in the sixth and a grand slam in the seventh ended the left-handed hurler's day.
 
Freshman Megan Murphy relieved McManaway and got the final three outs in the top of the seventh, but the lead proved insurmountable for the Eagles to attack in the home half.
 
Morehead State got two hits from freshman outfielder Paige Scruggs and senior infielder Ellen Barrett.
 
Eastern Kentucky's Mollie Paulick (8-4) went the distance in the pitcher's circle to pick up the shutout win.
 
EASTERN KENTUCKY 14, MOREHEAD STATE 2
 
Sophomore outfielder Cassie Griffin's first hit of the season, a two-RBI single scoring Allison Davis and Abigail Rhodes, kept the Eagles from falling to the eight-run mercy rule in the fifth inning, but Eastern Kentucky exploded for five runs in the sixth to evoke the mercy rule in the sixth.
 
Murphy (1-1), a right-hander from Georgetown, Ky., made her second career start for Morehead State in the pitcher's circle.  The freshman pitched three innings and gave up five earned runs and five hits while striking out one batter. Junior Allison Rager pitched 1.2 innings in relief, and freshman Sarah King, making her second appearance in a game as an Eagle, pitched 1.1 innings.
 
Paige Murphy, an EKU senior and one of the top players in the OVC, blistered Morehead State by going 5-for-5 with two homers, a double, and five RBI.
 
NEXT UP
 
Morehead State will play a pair of games with Marshall in Huntington, W.Va., on Wednesday.  First pitch between the Eagles and 'Herd is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET with game two immediately following.