DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle baseball team moved to 2-1 on the young season on Saturday, claiming the series from visiting Plam Beach Atlantic, with a doubleheader split, winning the opener 6-1 before dropping a slug-fest in the series finale, 18-12. The Eagles' pitching held the Sailfish to just one run in Saturday's first game before the visitors exploded for 18 runs in the get-away game to salvage one win in the three-game set.

Game 1 - ERAU 6, PBA 1
Kenny Burkhead scattered eight hits over 7.2 innings of work in his season debut, limiting the Sailfish to just one run as the Eagles scored five in the first inning en route to the 6-1 victory to lay claim to the series.

Back-to-back one-out hits in the top of the first gave PBA its first run of the season when Sean Visconti doubled home Bobby Brennan, but Burkhead, making his first start since mid-February of 2015, held the Sailfish to just one run, getting a strikeout and fly out to end the inning.

The Eagle offense gave their starter all the runs he would need with a five-spot in the home-half of the first. Tobias Moreno began the inning with a single before Liam Goodall tripled to right-center to tie things up at 1-1. After Enderson Velasquez gave ERAU a 2-1 lead with a base hit up the middle, driving in Goodall, PBA starter Matt Picucci struck out Jonahan Camp, but Joshua Garcia singled before Matt Jacobs clobbered a pitch over the left field fence for three runs and a 5-1 Eagle lead.

Burkhead got the first of four double plays from his infielders in the second, and after a scoreless top of the third, Embry-Riddle added its final tally of the contest when Garcia singled down the left field line, driving in Camp who had doubled to right-center earlier in the frame.

Burkhead was great at working out of jams for the entirety of his outing, but the Eagles couldn't score any more runs against Picucci or the two relievers Phil DiLandro and Sam Shields as the game went scoreless from the fourth inning on.

Burkhead came out for the eighth inning and got two outs before Troy Naab made his collegiate debut in relief, striking out Peter Rivera with two men on to send the game to the bottom of the eighth.

Naab worked around two singles in the ninth before punctuating the victory with a strikeout of Julian Bilodeau to end the game.

Burkhead (1-0) walked three and struck out three on 114 pitches in 7.2 innings while Naab registered three Ks in 1.1 of relief.

Jacobs' lone hit was the three-run homer, as Moreno finished 3-for-5 and a run and both Camp and Garcia collected two hits each.

Game 2 - PBA 18, ERAU 12
The series finale was a wild affair as the two teams combined for 30 runs and 28 hits while the Eagle defense was sub-par, committing six errors that led to 11 unearned runs.

Nick Dearing got the start for the Eagles, and found himself behind 5-0 after two innings as PBA got on the board with one run in the first before a four-run second, highlighted by a home run from Hakeem Rhodes.

ERAU got right back into the game over the next two innings, scoring its first run in the bottom of the second on a Jacobs ground out that scored Camp from third, and after Dearing set the Sailfish down in order in the top of the third, the Blue and Gold tied the game in the bottom of the frame.

Moreno was hit by a pitch before Garcia singled through the right side, setting the table for Velasquez who doubled over the center fielder's head for two RBIs. Camp and Goodall wore pitches in their next at-bats to load the bases as Jacobs got his second RBI with a fielder's choice to short. Kyle Zirbes tied things up with an RBI single to right as Camp scored to make it 5-5.

ERAU scored three more runs in the fourth to take an 8-5 lead, two runs coming off a Garcia single up the middle, followed by a Jacobs single through the left side, bringing in Moreno, Dalton Hughes and Velasquez, respectively.

A rare scoreless inning in the fifth preceeded the sixth where PBA chased Dearing from the game and eventually scored six runs in the frame to go back in front, 11-8. Two errors in the inning hurt the Eagles, but the offense responded by again tying the game with a three-run effort of their own in the home-half. Jacobs, batting with runners at first and second tripled to right, pushing Camp and Velasquez home before Zirbes singled to short to knot the game at 11-11.

The tie was short-lived however, as PBA produced another six-run inning in the seventh, taking a comanding 17-11 lead, thanks to four hits and two more ERAU errors.

The Sailfish tacked on a run in the eighth before Goodall accounted for the final ERAU run with a single through the right side, scoring Velasquez, but the Eagles would get no more, dropping the game, 18-12.

The loss went to Joey Swinarski (0-1) in 1.1 innings of relief, while Dominic Monda (1-0) earned the win out of the pen for PBA.

Zirbes went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, while Jacobs collected five RBIs on two hits. Both Garcia and Velasquez recorded two hits and two RBIs while Velasquez scored four runs and Camp touched home three times.

The Eagles host NAIA member Florida Memorial at Sliwa Stadium, Feb. 5-6 with a single game on Friday beginning at 6 p.m. and a doubleheader slated for a 1 p.m. start on Saturday.