DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The defending NCAA II champs won both games of a Saturday doubleheader in two very different ways against the Embry-Riddle baseball team, wrapping up the three-game sweep of the Eagles over the weekend. Nova Southeastern (28-15) pushed across two unearned runs and then held the Eagles (13-31) to just one run over the course of nine innings in the day's opener, claiming the series with a 2-1 win. In the finale, the Sharks pounded out 17 runs on 20 hits en route to a 17-4 blowout in which they scored in every inning except one.

ERAU hits the road for its final away contest of the season on Tuesday, taking on Armstrong State in Savannah, Georgia for a 3 p.m. first pitch. The Eagles return home on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. senior day game against Webber International.

Game 1 - NSU 2, ERAU 1
In one of the most well-pitched games of the year, Aidan Brady and Austin Lee combined to hold the potent Shark offense to just five hits, but three Eagle errors in the game led to a pair of NSU runs and the only Eagle tally of the contest came on Luis Olivier's fifth homer of the year in the bottom of the seventh.

Brady, starting for the seventh time in eight weekend games, allowed a single and walk with one out in the first, but after getting a fly out that put runners on the corners, a stolen base led to an errant Eagle throw, allowing the runner from third to score the go-ahead run for an early 1-0 lead for the visitors.

ERAU put men on first and second with no outs and then had runners on the corners with one out, but a double play ended the Eagle threat as Derek Beauprez got out of the jam with a 1-0 lead.

Brady and Beauprez worked scoreless innings in the second and third, and Lee took over for Brady to start the fourth, getting two quick outs with a runner at second before another ERAU error allowed the second Shark run to touch home as NSU doubled its lead, 2-0.

ERAU threatened in the fifth with two on and no outs, but a failed sac bunt was followed by another double play to keep the Sharks in front.

Olivier launched his fifth long ball of the season in the seventh with one out, a laser to left that cut the deficit in half, 2-1.

After keeping the Sharks off the scoreboard in his final five frames, Lee kept the Eagles in it and the Blue and Gold once again threatened in the last of the ninth, getting a single and walk from Zach Howard and Olivier with one out. However, the Sharks turned their third twin killing in the game to end the game with the one-run win.

Brady (2-3) took the loss in three innings, despite not allowing an earned run, while both he and Lee struck out five batters each. Olivier was 2-for-3 and scored the only Eagle run on his solo homer.

Game 2 - NSU 17, ERAU 4
The finale proved to be all Nova Southeastern as the Sharks reached the 20-hit plateau for the second time in the series, scoring in every inning except the sixth to secure the sweep. NSU hit four more home runs in the finale, bringing its total for the series to nine.
 
The Sharks got to Kenny Burkhead for 10 runs in the first four innings as the hosts could manage just single runs in the second and third on RBI singles from Kyle Guttveg and Olivier.

ERAU would add a run in the fifth when Logan Malphurs singled through the infield, and Malphurs accounted for the final Eagle run of the day with a double in the ninth, but the 17 Shark runs were too much for the Eagles to overcome.

Malphurs finished 3-for-4, while both Robbie Hanlon and Olivier each had a pair of hits for the Blue and Gold.