ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle baseball team had the potential tying run cut down at home to end a 6-5 loss on Wednesday night at Flagler. The Eagles (10-23) led 5-4 heading to the seventh, but the Saints (28-12) tallied runs in the bottom of the seventh and bottom of the eighth before holding off the Eagles in the ninth to complete the home-and-home sweep of the Blue and Gold in 2018.

Kyle Guttveg singled through the right side of the infield with two outs in the ninth, sending pinch runner Jimmy Jones III, running for Joe Lucas after Lucas singled to keep the game alive, around second and to third, and trying to catch the Saints' defense napping, Jones was sent home where he was thrown on the relay throw from second to end the contest.

J.C. Carrell kept the Saints scoreless through three as the Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third on Cody Bogart's solo homer to left. ERAU doubled its lead to 2-0 in the fourth when Kyle Marsh brought in Cole Habig from third after Habig had tripled to start the inning, but the hosts finally got to Carrell in the last of the inning, chasing him for Nick Dearing as Flagler took a 4-2 lead.

Embry-Riddle immediately answered back in the fifth, starting with a Bogart double and Jake Malone single to score a run. A few batters later, with runners at first and second, Habig singled to tie the game before a wild pitch put the Eagles on top when Guttveg touched home for a 5-4 lead.

Dearing tossed scoreless frames in the fifth and sixth, exiting the game before the start of the seventh where the Saints tied things up on three hits.

ERAU came up empty in the eighth and a walk, sacrifice bunt and single to left gave Flagler a 6-5 lead against Aidan Brady before the Eagle right-hander got a double play to end the inning, setting up the near comeback in the ninth.

The Eagles return to Sunshine State Conference play this weekend in St. Petersburg when they play Eckerd in a DH on Friday, April 13 at 3 p.m. and a single game on Saturday, April 14 at 1 p.m.