DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Despite 10 hits and 15 baserunners, the Embry-Riddle Eagles couldn't hold on to an early 1-0 lead over the Daytona Tortugas on Wednesday evening at Historic Jackie Robinson Ballpark. The Eagles took the lead in the second on a Matt Jacobs homer, but an unearned run in the fourth tied the game before the Reds' Class A-Advanced affiliate took a 2-1 lead in the fifth and the Eagles failed to score again in the seven inning contest.

Embry-Riddle out-hit the Tortugas 10-6 and seven Eagle pitchers combined to limit a roster of five former first round picks to just one earned run.

Tobias Moreno singled on the first pitch of the ball game, stealing second and moving to third as the Eagles threatened in the first with runners on the corners, but the Tortugas got out of the jam with a groundout.

Stetson Nelson faced minimum trouble in the bottom of the first and Jacobs started the second with a bang, driving a pitch from Nick Howard, the Reds' 2014 first round pick, over the wall in left for a 1-0 Blue and Gold advantage. After Jacob's homer, Kyle Buchanan reached third base and tried to score on a Jordan Brown ground ball, but was cut down at the plate as ERAU hung on to a 1-0 lead.

Tyler Cyr worked a perfect bottom of the second second for Embry-Riddle, but the Eagles couldn't produce much offense in the third before Clayton Wagner took the hill. Wagner worked around a leadoff double, setting down the next three Tortugas he faced to move the game to the fourth.

Jacobs started the fourth with a single and the Eagles loaded the bases in the inning, but the Daytona pitching staff held up, limiting the Blue and Gold to baserunners but no runs. An error in the bottom of the inning led to the Tortugas first run, but Corey Tufts, who relieved Wagner with a runner at first, got a nice 6-4-3 double play before recording the third and final out of the frame with no more damage.

Enderson Velasquez, who finished the night with two hits, got to third while Jacobs reached first in the top of the fifth, but again the Eagles couldn't come up with a hit with runners in scoring position and a sacrifice fly in the Tortugas' fifth resulted in the go-ahead tally.

Austen Thrailkill and Brett Allen worked a scoreless sixth and Zac Grotz got out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh to keep Daytona off the board as the scoreboard read 2-1 in favor of the Tortugas after seven complete innings.

The Eagles travel to Florida Memorial for a three-game TSC set with the Lions with the series opener scheduled for Friday, April 10 at 3 p.m. and concluding with a DH on Saturday, April 11 at 12 p.m.