{"id":182680,"date":"2026-03-08T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182680\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:07:08","slug":"miami-clinches-series-win-over-eagles-with-8-5-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182680\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Clinches Series Win Over Eagles With 8-5 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks picked up their second conference win of the season Saturday in an 8-5 showdown against Eastern Michigan. Freshman Cameron Novak<\/a> had his first start of the season and struck out six batters during the contest. Miami moves to 10-4 (2-0 MAC) with the win, while EMU drops to 4-11 (0-2 MAC).<\/p>\n

HOW IT HAPPENED
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\n\tStarting on the mound for the RedHawks, Novak sent down three straight batters on 10 pitches, including two strikeouts.
\n\tThe RedHawks put up four runs in the bottom of the first. Tommy Harrison<\/a> hit a two-run double to score Ryan Novak<\/a> and Evan Appelwick<\/a>, who had each walked. Carson Raether<\/a> doubled to score Harrison and an HBP and a fielder’s choice forced Raether home to make it 4-0.
\n\tMiami extended their lead by three runs in the second. Marcus Dierks<\/a> led off with a double and scored on a groundout. After two walks and a wild pitch, Dominic Krupinski<\/a> singled to add two to the scoreboard, making it 7-0.
\n\tCameron Novak<\/a> had another three up, three down inning in the third that included two strikeouts.
\n\tHarrison scored Appelwick with a single in the fourth with an RBI single to make it 8-1.
\n\tEastern added one run on two hits in the top of the fifth.
\n\tThe Eagles turned two hits and an error into three more runs in the top of the ninth. Austin Berggren<\/a> came in to make the save and round out an 8-5 victory. <\/p>\n

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\nMIAMI GAME NOTES:<\/p>\n


\n\tDierks went 2-for-4 with a run and a double.
\n\tAppelwick went 1-for-2 with two runs and three walks.
\n\tHarrison went 2-for-3 with two runs and three RBIs.
\n\tRaether went 1-for-1 with two runs.
\n\tCameron Novak<\/a> pitched 4.2 innings and threw six strikeouts. <\/p>\n

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\nUP NEXT:
\nMiami will look to sweep the Eagles tomorrow. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks picked up their second conference win of the season Saturday in an 8-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-182680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}