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The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Eagles softball team used strong hitting and a never-say-die attitude to earn a six-game winning streak at the Murray State Softball Festival over the weekend. The Eagles won their first six games at the tournament before dropping the final contest to finish the weekend 6-1.

The Eagles entered the weekend tournament in Tishomingo, OK with a 5-9 record but came away from the tourney with a season record of 11-10 after coming from behind in four of their six wins.

The Eagle hitters crushed the ball all weekend as the team scored 53 runs while batting .341 with 43 RBI.

Boy meets girl. Girl writes boy. Girl and Boy correspond throughout their lives. That more or less sums up the romantic comedy,†Love Letters, by A. R. Gurney, to be presented by Theatre Northeast on March 2-4 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ campus.

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The Eagles softball team moved to 3-7 Saturday as they picked up a split in a double header with visiting Connors State.

With both teams battling frigid temperatures, it was the Eagles that came away with a 3-2 victory in game one.

The Eagles took advantage of their three hits to score their three runs in the contest and held off the Cowgirls late to get the win.

The Cowgirls grabbed a quick lead in the top of the second inning on a fielder?s choice play with the bases loaded but the Eagles answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning.

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The Eagles baseball team moved its record to 3-3 Tuesday as the squad split a double-header at Weatherford College.

It took extra-inning heroics for the Eagles to pick up a win in game one as Matt Durst drove in the game-winning runs with a two-RBI single in the top of the eighth inning to secure a 3-1 victory.

A pitcher?s duel throughout, Weatherford took the lead in the bottom of the second inning with a sacrifice fly by Cody Semier.

The Eagles tied the score in the top of the fifth inning as a two-out single to center by Richard Bain brought in Eric Hughes, who ha