DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The 11th-ranked Embry-Riddle baseball team saved its best offensive output of the weekend for the rubber game against Reinhardt, dealing the visitors a 9-3 setback on Sunday to take the series, two games to one. Matt Jacobs homered twice and drove in four while the Eagles (2-1) combined for 11 hits and nine RBIs while Corey Tufts, Tyler Cyr and Zac Grotz held the visitors from Reinhardt (3-2) to three runs while striking out 13.

ERAU will host No. 21 Brewton-Parker on Tuesday, Feb. 10 for a twin bill beginning at 3 p.m. at Sliwa Stadium.

Tufts worked out of multiple jams in the early going, including the first two innings when Reinhardt put two runners on in both frames, but the junior from Clermont kept the visitors off the scoreboard, getting a strikeout to end the first and a fly out to end the second.

Embry-Riddle took an early lead in the home half of the second when freshman Jordan Brown collected his first RBI as an Eagle on a groundout to short, scoring Enderson Velasquez from third, giving ERAU a 1-0 lead.

Tufts tossed a shutdown inning in the third and his team gave him another run when Joshua Garcia singled to second with the bases loaded in the last of the third, bringing in Kyle Buchanan, courtesy running for Dalton Hughes.

Tufts struggled in the fourth, giving up three consecutive one-out singles before Reinhardt got on the board with a sacrifice fly, followed by a single that tied the game at 2-2. With runners on the corners and two outs, Tufts made a nice pickoff move to first, but a poor throw from Jacobs squirted into the outfield and allowed the go-ahead run to score from third. Tufts was able to end the threat by striking out Justin Schlie on three pitches.

Jacobs led off the bottom of the fourth with a single before stealing second and moving to third on a bunt, but the Eagles were unable to bring him in as Alex Ridge kept his team in front with a ground out and strikeout.

Tufts threw just eight pitches in the fifth to record three outs and the Eagle offense answered big time in the bottom of the inning. After Tobias Moreno walked and stole second, Jake Cavender moved him to third with a sacrifice bunt. Garcia singled in the tying run with a base hit to right center and Liam Goodall followed with a single through the left side to put two on with two outs. Jacobs, who had yet to homer in two previous seasons with ERAU, took a 1-0 pitch down the left field line that cleared the fence, scoring three Eagles, and giving the home team the lead for good at 6-3.

Tufts got two outs in the sixth before being relieved by Cyr with two men on base. Cyr issued a walk to load the bags, but got a weak ground ball to second that ended the Reinhardt threat.

Luke Cathcart got two quick outs in the bottom of the sixth after a leadoff walk was issued to Kyle Zirbes, but Cavender kept the inning alive and extended the Eagle lead with a no-doubter over the fence in left to give ERAU an 8-3 cushion.

Cyr was nearly unhittable in both the seventh and eighth as just one Reinhardt batter put a ball in play while Cyr fanned four and Jacobs douled his home run total in the last of the seventh with a solo shot that accounted for the ninth and final ERAU run of the afternoon.

Grotz, pitching for the second time in as many days, worked the ninth, facing just four batters in the inning while closing things out for an Embry-Riddle victory,

Tufts (1-0) tossed 5.2 innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on eight hits with 8 Ks. Cyr didn't allow a hit in 2.1 innings of relief, striking out four. Jacobs finished the day 3-for-3 with four RBIs on his two long balls while both Garcia and Cavender collected two RBIs on two hits for the Blue and Gold.