LAKELAND, Fla. - It took 13 innings, but the third-ranked Embry-Riddle baseball team finally registered a win in 2014, grinding out a 4-2 marathon victory over Southeastern on Friday night. The Eagles (1-4, 1-0) were no-hit through 4.2 innings, but the Blue and Gold kept striking, finally breaking through in the ninth to force extra innings before claiming the win in the 13th. The Fire (5-1, 0-1) suffered their first loss of the year. The two teams will meet tomorrow for a twin bill beginning at 12 p.m.

Daniel Poncedeleon and David Lidyard put together masterful performances for the visitors, holding a potent SEU offense, that entered the game hitting .399 for the season, to just two runs (one earned) on eight hits while striking out a program record 18 batters. Poncedeleon pitched 6.1 innings, surrendering just two hits while striking out eight before giving way to Lidyard in the seventh as the Seattle, Wash. native threw the final 6.2 frames, allowing six hits while fanning 10.

Bryan Muniz recorded the only hit for either team in the first three innings with a single in the first, but Poncedeleon and Patrick Kinney kept the offenses off the scoreboard until the fourth.

A questionable call in the fourth led to an RBI groundout from Corbin Weeks as Muniz scored from third, giving the hosts a 1-0 lead that stood up until the top of the ninth.

J Rhet Montana, in his first appearance for the Blue and Gold, doubled in the fifth, but was stranded by Kinney and the Eagles stranded a pair of runners in the seventh.

Lidyard relieved Poncedeleon in the last of the seventh with runners on second and third with one out and struck out one and induced a ground out to keep the defecit to just one run.

Tyler Murphy, the Fire's closer, came in before the Eagle ninth to attempt to close the Eagles out, but Kevin Lindheim drew a one-out walk before stealing second and scoring when Darryl Knight reached first safely on an errant throw by the Fire shortstop.

Lidyard worked through the ninth and 10th, including stranding the winning run at third in the 10th by striking out Muniz to end the frame.

Embry-Riddle had a golden opportunity to take a lead in the 11th, putting runners at second and third, but Jordan Johnson fouled out down the first base line to end the Eagle threat and swing momentum back into the SEU dugout.

The game appeared all but over in the home-half of the 12th when Eric Jhones doubled to start the inning, moving to third on an Eagle error with no outs. Lidyard bore down and pitched his best of the night, striking out the side to strand the winning run just 90 feet from home.

The Eagles got the winning runs in the 13th after loading the bases thanks to back-to-back singles from Jake Cavender and Lindheim, followed by a walk from Knight. Hunter Bruehl hit a sac fly to center that put the Eagles up 2-1, and after Johnson walked to again load the bases, pinch hitter Matt Jacobs singled to shallow center, bringing in two ERAU runs for a 4-1 cushion.

Southeastern got a run back in the last of the 13th, but Lidyard ended the game by inducing a ground ball that went 6-4 for the final out.

The two Eagle pitchers' 18 Ks broke the previous record of 15 strikeouts done on several occassions.