JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle baseball team touched home 22 times on Saturday, downing Trinity Baptist 11-2 and 11-4 in a twin bill sweep of TBC. ERAU (8-3) completed the series sweep of the Eagles (2-12) after winning Friday's contest, 6-0.
Game 1 - ERAU 11, TBC 2Embry-Riddle scored the first seven runs in the day's opener, cruising to an 11-2 victory as
Kenny Burkhead tossed six innings, allowing just one earned run on five hits with a pair of strikeouts.
After a scoreless first inning, ERAU got a pair of runs in the second as
Kyle Zirbes and
Dalton Hughes registered RBI base hits for a 2-0 lead.
A wild pitch allowed
Enderson Velasquez to score in the third inning after he walked, moved to second when
Jonathan Camp was hit by a pitch and then to third on a fielder's choice.
Burkhead faced the minimum in the last of the third and the visitors busted the game open with a four-run fourth as two TBC errors helped three ERAU hits, including
Joshua Garcia's double, Velasquez's double and Camp's single that all scored a run.
Trinity Baptist got two back in the home-half of the fourth, but Embry-Riddle came right back in the fifth with two of its own thanks to two hit by pitches and three walks.
The Eagles accounted for their last two runs in the seventh, their first on Jimmy Jones' first collegiate hit, driving in
Dalton Hughes, and the second when
Matt Jacobs was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, bringing in
Tyler Gilliam.
Blake Herrera relieved Burkhead to start the bottom of the seventh, stranding two TBC runners to secure the 11-2 win.
Garcia finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run, while Zirbes scored three times.
Game 2 - ERAU 11, TBC 4Embry-Riddle had to stage a comeback in the series finale, falling behind 4-0 before reeling off 11 unanswered to complete the sweep of the host Eagles.
Andrew Schorr made his first start for Embry-Riddle, moving quickly through the first before struggling in the second as four TBC runs scored.
Nick Dearing relieved Schorr in the middle of the inning and was able to minimize the damage.
ERAU got right back into it with two runs in the third as Camp scored
Tobias Moreno on a single and Velasquez came home on a wild pitch, trimming the TBC lead to 4-2.
Dearing left two runners on the bases in the home-half of the third inning, but ERAU was unable to find anything offensively in the fourth.
The Eagles found some offense in a big way in the fifth as Camp tied things up with his first home run of the year, an opposite field shot to right that scored himself and Velasquez. ERAU wasn't done there as
Logan Malphurs singld in Zirbes later in the inning and scored himself on an error as ERAU took a 6-4 lead.
Dearing got a bug shutdown inning in the last of the fifth and his team gave him a seventh run in the next inning when a throwing error pushed Camp across the plate.
Dearing struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the sixth and the visitors put the game out of reach with four runs in the seventh thanks to four hits, one each from Moreno, Garcia, Camp and Goodall.
Dearing got two out in the seventh before
Joey Gerber was called upon to get the last out, and he did just that, striking out the final TBC batter to end the game, 11-4.
Dearing (2-0) got the win in 5.1 innings of relief, while both Camp and Goodall collected three hits. Camp finished with four RBIs and scored three runs.
ERAU will travel to Winter Park next weekend for a three-game series against Rollins. First pitch Friday is slated for 6 p.m. while Saturday's doubleheader will begin at 12 p.m.