DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle baseball team used great pitching, timely hitting and solid defense to dispatch Palm Beach Atlantic on Friday night at Sliwa Stadium, 7-1. The Eagles (5-7, 1-3 SSC) got their first conference win of the year thanks to great pitching from Daniel Agramont, Samuel Brunnig and Joey Gerber, and a first-inning homer from Zach Howard would be all the offense the Eagles would need as the pitching trio shut down the Salifish (6-9, 1-3 SSC) offense, striking out 13 and stranding 10.

Agramont set the tone in the first inning, wriggling out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam thanks to a foul out and back-to-back strikeouts, sending the Eagles into the dugout with some momentum. Howard launched a no-doubter to left off of PBA starter Mitchell Carroll, driving in three runs after Kyle Guttveg and Luis Olivier reached via a walk and single earlier in the frame. Howard's homer was his 50th extra-base hit as an Eagle and his 20th home run at Sliwa Stadium.

The only run the visitors would get came in the second when Brandon Smith led off the inning with a solo shot to left, but Agramont wasn't fazed, setting down the next three batters he saw to keep ERAU in front, 3-1.

After that the pitching for both teams took over, inducing strikeout after strikeout and stranding runners from both squads on the bases.

Agramont worked around a two-on, no-out situation in the fourth thanks to a double play and strikeout, but Carroll got his own DP to end the Eagle fourth, keeping the score 3-1.

Olivier gunned down his 10th would-be base stealer in the fifth and Agramont did the rest, fanning two more PBA batters.

Brunnig was called on to get out of a jam in the sixth after the first two Sailfish batters reached, and the sophomore did, striking out back-to-back PBA batters before getting a weak ground ball for the final out of the inning.

Embry-Riddle put the game out of reach in the seventh, getting three doubles from Guttveg, Olivier and Kirk Sidwell, going up 6-1 before Howard drove in the final run with a sac fly and a 7-1 cushion.

Joey Gerber pitched the final 1.1 innings for the Eagles, not allowing a baserunner and securing the win.

Agramont (2-1) got the win in 5.0 innings, while Brunnig was dominant in his 2.2 innings of relief. The pair combined for 13 strikeouts.

Howard finished with four RBIs, while Olivier went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, and Sidwell had two hits, an RBI and a run.

ERAU snapped a four-game losing skid to PBA and will look to make it a winning streak of its own as the two teams square off in a doubleheader tomorrow at 1 p.m.