DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle baseball team was able to force a true rubber match against Rollins with a 12-7 win in Saturday's opener, but the Tars took the three-game weekend series with a 13-3 win in the finale at Sliwa Stadium as the Eagles wrapped up the 2018 home slate. The Eagles (19-28, 8-19 SSC) used the long ball to jump out to a huge lead in the first game, holding off the Tars (18-28, 6-21 SSC) late, but it was the visitors who jumped out to a large lead in the finale, never looking back en route to claiming the series.

The Eagles will trek to Saint Leo next weekend to finish off the 2018 season with a three-game set against the Lions.

Game 1 - ERAU 12, RC 7
Embry-Riddle got three solo home runs in the first inning of the day's opener to run out to a 3-0 lead against RC starter Garrett Leonard as Kyle Guttveg, Kyle Marsh and Luis Olivier all took Leonard deep to left, the last two doing so back-to-back.

After Garrett Goodall held Rollins scoreless in the second, ERAU scored four more runs in the bottom of the inning, starting on a wild pitch that allowed Jordan Hicks to score. With runners at the corners, Marsh lined a ball to center field and when the Tar outfielder dove to try and make the catch, the ball rolled all the way to the fence as Marsh raced all the way around the bases for the fourth inside-the-park home run in Sliwa Stadium history.

Goodall faced little trouble against the Tar lineup, holding the 7-0 lead and then an 8-0 lead on another Marsh base hit in the fourth, scoring Guttveg, all the way into the sixth when the Rollins lineup finally touched the freshman up for five runs, trimming the deficit to 8-5.

The Tars again rallied in the seventh, scoring two more to make it 8-7 before Joey Gerber was able to get out of the inning by stranding the potential tying run at third base with a strikeout.

ERAU added some big insurance runs in the eighth on three hits and a big error as Marsh and Olivier picked up RBIs in the frame, pushing the Eagle lead to 12-7.

Aidan Brady finished things off in the ninth, preserving Goodall's win, improving him to 3-3 on the season. Marsh finished 4-for-5 with two homers, six RBIs and two runs, while Guttveg was a perfect 4-for-4 with four runs and an RBI.

Game 2 - RC 13, ERAU 3
In the final home game of 2018, the Eagles struggled on the mound, allowing 13 runs on 17 hits while issuing nine free passes.

J.C. Carrell minimized the damage in the second, holding Rollins to just one run, but couldn't get out of the third as an Eagle fielding error eventually led to four unearned runs before David Romanowski entered for the Eagles and ended the inning with a strikeout.

Olivier doubled home a pair of runs in the third, but the visitors got one back in the fourth and then put the game nearly out of reach in the fifth with three more runs to make it 10-2.

Olivier picked up his third RBI of the game with a sac fly in the bottom of the fifth, scoring Marsh after he had tripled with one out, but that's as close as ERAU would get and the Tars tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the ninth for good measure, accounting for the 13-3 final.