WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle Eagles got the better of their former and future conference foe Palm Beach Atlantic on Tuesday evening, bringing their bats to bear on the Sailfish in an 11-9 win. The Eagles (7-2) pounded out 13 hits, all from the top five hitters in the order, scoring three runs in an inning on three different occassions while the Sailfish (0-6) couldn't solve relievers Clayton Wagner and Zac Grotz in the final frames.

The Eagles improved to 36-9-1 all-time against PBA, winning their 19th straight in the series.

ERAU stays on the road this weekend, travelling to Montgomery, Alabama for three games against Auburn Montgomery and a single game versus No. 5 Faulkner. A doubleheader on Friday is slated for a 1 p.m. (CT) first pitch against AUM.

The Eagles got the scoring started with a lone run in the second inning when Enderson Velasquez scored on a Liam Goodall single after Velasquez doubled to start the inning.
 
Palm Beach Atlantic answered with a run in the bottom of the second to knot things at 1-1, but the Eagles roared back in the third with a three spot, taking a 4-1 lead.  PBA committed two errors in the inning, resulting in three unearned runs, including one on a Jake Cavender double, one on a Joshua Garcia groundout and one on a Velasquez single.
 
Unfortunately for the visitors, the lead didn't last long as the Sailfish struck for three runs of their own in the last of the fourth against Tyler Cyr to tie the game up at 4-4, despite collecting just one hit in the frame.
 
The back-and-forth affair continued in the fifth as the Blue and Gold registered three more runs to retake a lead, including two runs coming off the bat of Velasquez as he recorded the first-ever home run at Rubin Park, smoking a ball over the fence in left center after Tobias Moreno and Garcia went for back-to-back one-out doubles.
 
Cyr was chased from the game in the fifth when he failed to record an out, loading the bases before Clayton Wagner relived him. Three straight singles gave the hosts an 8-7 lead, but Wagner kept the damage at that, keeping the Eagles down by just one with a pair of fielder's choices and a strikeout.
 
For the third time in the game Embry-Riddle scored three runs in an inning, this time in the sixth as ERAU went in front, 10-8. Kyle Buchanan drew a leadoff walk before Dalton Hughes sacrificed him to second base. A Moreno single pushed Buchanan to third before Garcia got his third and fourth RBIs of the game with a single right back up the middle. The Eagle second baseman came around to score a few batters later on a wild pitch for a two-run ERAU advantage.
 
Wagner delivered a big shutdown inning in the home-half of the sixth, going 1-2-3 and the Blue and Gold tacked on another run in the seventh when Buchanan touched home for the third time in the game on a Moreno infield single and an 11-8 ERAU cushion.
 
Again Wagner came up big for the Eagles on the mound, stranding two runners in the seventh by striking out the potential tying run for the final out of the frame.
 
The visitors couldn't score in the top of the eighth and Zac Grotz took the mound for Wagner in the bottom of the inning, surrendering a leadoff single which came around to score for the Sailfish, trimming the lead to 11-9, but Grotz settled in and struck out two in the frame to move the game to the ninth.
 
Grotz faced the minimum in the last of the ninth, getting a nice 6-3 double play to secure the victory for the Eagles.

Wagner (1-0) got the win, tossing three innings of relief, allowing one run on four hits with three strikeouts. Grotz earned his second save of the season in 2.0 innings of work with one unearned run on three hits with three strikeouts. Cyr struck out five in four innings for the Eagles.

Velasquez went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored while Garcia drove in four runs on two hits with two runs scored. Goodall collected three hits while Moreno went 3-for-5 with two runs while both Goodall and Buchanan swiped two bases each.