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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - On Saturday, it was the pitching of Matt Marksbury and Josh Bruns that lifted Northern Kentucky University to a sweep over Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, 7-0, and 2-1. On Sunday, the SIUE bats awakened and returned the favor to the Norse by scores of 4-3 and 8-3 to salvage a split of the four-game weekend series. In the opener of the series Saturday afternoon, Marksbury tossed a two-hit shutout for NKU. The senior right-hander struck out five batters and walked just one en route to the complete-game victory. In his last three starts, Marksbury has hurled 23 innings of scoreless baseball. During his last 30 innings on the mound, the Norwood, Ohio, native has allowed just two runs. Kevin Dusold drove in two runs to pace NKU in the opener. In the nightcap Saturday, NKU pushed across a run in the eighth inning to defeat SIUE, 2-1. Bruns scattered three hits in seven innings for the win, while Nathan Jones went two scoreless innings to notch the save. In the opener Sunday, James Kulovitz hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth to snap a 3-3 tie and key SIUE’s 4-3 win. The Cougars completed the sweep in the second game by plating six runs in the sixth inning en route to an 8-3 victory. Dusold hit a two-run homer to lead NKU, which is 8-15 overall, 7-5 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The nightcap Sunday was a non-GLVC game. SIUE is 11-7 overall, 7-5 in the GLVC.
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