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Sophomore Chris Wean went the distance for the Herd against EMU allowing just two earned runs.

YPSILANTI, Mich. -- The Marshall baseball team split a pair of games with Eastern Michigan on Saturday, dropping the opener 6-0 before taking the nightcap 7-3.

The two teams will conclude their four-game weekend series, and their respective seasons, on Sunday at 1 p.m. Neither team has qualified for the six-team Mid-American Conference Tournament.

The Eagles (19-32, 13-11) held the Herd scoreless for just the season time all year in the opening game, joining Gardner-Webb as the only teams to have shutout the Herd this season. Senior left-hander Phil Kommer (4-1) turned the trick, holding the Herd to just three hits in a complete game performance. He walked one and struck out four.

EMU scored all they needed in the second inning on an RBI single by freshman Andy Busch off Marshall starter Grant Harper (4-4). The Eagles added an unearned run in the fifth before scoring four in the sixth to put the game away.

The Herd (24-28, 11-16) bounced back in the second game, using a five-run seventh inning to blow open a 2-2 game. Sophomore Chris Wean (4-6) went the distance for the Herd for the win. He allowed just two earned runs on nine hits while walking four and striking out nine. It was his team-high fifth complete game of the season.

EMU plated a pair of first inning runs off Wean, one on a solo homer by Gregory Anglin and the other on a single by Ryan Goleski after an error had extended the inning.

Marshall battled back with single runs in the second and fourth innings off EMU starter Tom Gallus (4-6). The second inning run came thanks to a single and three straight walks. The fourth inning run came on a Matt White homer, his fifth of the year and third of the series.

The game remained knotted at 2-2 until the seventh when Marshall plated five runs. A two-run single by Bryan Colley off reliever Anthony Tomey was followed by a three-run homer off the bat of Homer Renshaw, his 14th.

The Eagles added a run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly.

Renshaw, White and David Colangelo had three hits each on the day to lead Marshall. Colangelo established a new Marshall season hit record on Friday, surpassing Tom Kuempel's 80 hits in 1998. Colangelo has 84 hits entering the final day of the season for Marshall.