DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The 15th-ranked Embry-Riddle Eagles split their final Sun Conference doubleheader of 2014 on Saturday to claim a series win over Webber International, dropping game one 15-3 before bouncing back with an 8-3 win in the series finale. Embry-Riddle (33-17, 22-5) had a pitching breakdown in the final three innings of Saturday's opener as the Warriors (28-26, 13-14) scored 12 runs, including eight in the ninth to run away with the contest. However, the Warriors had similar struggles on the mound in the second game when the Blue and Gold scored five in the eighth to grab the rubber match.

The Eagles conclude the regular season on Tuesday, April 22 with a home date against Johnson (Fla.) at 6 p.m. The final contest will be celebrated as senior day for the Eagle baseball team as well as the Embry-Riddle athletic department.

Game 1 - Box Score

Josh Ganus held the Eagles hitless through five complete innings before the home team rallied to tie the second game of the three-game series in the sixth, but a four-run seventh and eight-run ninth provided the visitors with a victory in the series for the second time in three seasons.

Corey Tufts and Ganus matched each other through three innings as neither team could score, but in the fourth, Webber International collected three hits and drew two walks to take a 3-0 lead over the Blue and Gold.

Ganus kept the Eagles off balance in the fourth and fifth, and got two outs in the sixth before Kevin Lindheim and Kyle Chastain came through with two-out singles that scored three combined Eagle runs to knot the game at 3-3.

Embry-Riddle went through three pitchers in the seventh before Bruce Wong was able to get out of the inning for the Eagles, but not before four runs scored as WIU took a commading 7-3 lead.

Embry-Riddle couldn't solve Ganus or his reliever George Schmitt and in the ninth the Warriors blew the game wide open, scoring eight runs on six hits and three hit by pitches to go up 15-3.

Schmitt struck out the side in the ninth to secure the win for the Warriors, sending the Eagles to their 17th loss of the year.

Game 2 - Box Score

After seeing a 3-0 lead dissapear in the final game of the weekend's series, the Eagles scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth for an 8-3 victory in the 50th game of the 2014 season for ERAU.

Clayton Wagner pitched solidly for Embry-Riddle, keeping the Warriors off the scoreboard until the sixth, and his team gave him a 3-0 lead after four thanks to a Kyle Buchanan RBI triple in the third, along with sacrifice flies from Chastain and Liam Goodall.

Webber chipped away at the lead with a one in the sixth and seventh, and after the leadoff batter reached in the eighth, Wagner was relieved by Ronnie Lozada. Lozada got an out before Dylan Price single to put runners on the corners and Tripp Merrell brought in the tying run with a base hit to right. Lozada got out of the inning but inducing a 5-4-3 double play from Chad Buckley to send the game to the bottom of the eighth tied at 3-3.

Chastain and Jordan Johnson started the eighth with a double and single and after Darryl Knight was intentionally walked to load the bases, Lindheim drove in a run with a sac fly before one of five wild pitches from Schmitt in the inning allowed Johnson to score. Logan Bailey scored on a wild pitch and Jake Cavender touched home on a Goodall single as ERAU went up 7-3 before Lane Crosson relieved Schmitt. Buchanan accounted for the final run of the inning with a sacrifice fly that scored Goodall.

Lozada worked around a leadoff single in the ninth to retire the side for the final of 8-3.

Goodall finished the second game 3-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored while both Johnson and Cavender recorded two hits and Buchanan collected two RBIs.

Lozada got the win to move to 2-2 while Wagner tossed seven innings in the start.