PENSACOLA, Florida - The Embry-Riddle baseball team secured its 10th and 11th wins in their last 12 contests on Saturday, and did so against the No. 21 ranked Argos of West Florida. The Eagles (12-12) got back to .500 on the season with a pair of one-run wins over a West Florida (13-9) team that had won three of its last four.

The Eagles will look to complete the three-game sweep tomorrow in the series finale at 1 p.m. (ET), 12 p.m. (CT) at Jim Spooner Field.

Game 1 - ERAU 7, UWF 6
In the day's opener, the Eagles earned their first win over a ranked team in 2022, leading for the majority of the contest before holding on in the ninth with a 7-6 win.

Garrett Goodall started for Embry-Riddle, and he was staked to an early 1-0 lead when Zach Coldsnow collected his third triple of the season to drive in Alex Britton in the top of the first inning. However, the Argos took their lone lead of the game with a two-run homer in the home-half of the inning.

Embry-Riddle immediately answered in the second with a pair of runs, starting when Nick Hoffman singled home Andrew Martinez before scoring on a Jeremy Kennedy-Davis single later in the inning, giving ERAU a 3-2 lead.

After the Argos were able to tie the game in the bottom of the second on a sacrifice fly, Embry-Riddle again had the answer, getting a massive two-out, two-run single from Max Law that pasted both Martinez and Garrett Bogart, pushing the Eagle lead to 5-3.

A solo homer to start the bottom of the fourth was the final run Goodall would allow before he gave way to Casey Keller with two on and two out in the fifth. Keller was able to get out of the jam and keep the Blue and Gold in front by a run, sending the game to the sixth with ERAU up 5-4.

Embry-Riddle added a run in both the sixth and seventh frames, the first on a throwing error by the Argo shortstop, bringing in Coldsnow after he had walked earlier in the inning. And then in the seventh, the Eagles got their final run of the game when Kennedy-Davis hit a sac fly to left, plating Law from third.

Keller breezed through the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, facing the minimum nine batters.

The Argos mounted a rally in the bottom of the ninth, forcing the Eagles to go to closer Joe Balsam with one out, a run in and a runner at third. Balsam got the second out of the frame with a ground out to short that brought in the sixth UWF run, and then registered the final out with a groundout to first, securing ERAU's 10th win in its last 11 games.

Kennedy-Davis and Martinez both finished with a pair of hits, with Kennedy-Davis collected two RBIs, and Martinez scoring twice. Law also recorded a pair of RBIs while Britton finished 1-for-3 with three walks. As a team, the Eagles walked 11 times in the game.

Keller (3-2) got the win in 3.2 innings of relief, while Balsam earned his fourth save of the campaign.

Game 2 - ERAU 3, UWF 2 (7 inn.)
Kelsey Ward was fantastic for the Blue and Gold in the day's final game, tossing 5.2 innings of three-hit baseball, surrendering just one unearned run. Tyler Stufano and Joe Balsam covered the final 1.1 innings, with Balsam closing the door in the seventh to grab his second consecutive save of the day, fifth of the year.

ERAU struck in the first inning again, going up 1-0 on a Robert Post single to left, bringing in Daniel Trillo from third. Ward then went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the frame.

Martinez's infield single in the third inning plated Post after he had reached on an Argo error to start the frame, and the Blue and Gold led 2-0.

Ward finally surrendered a hit in the home third, and an unearned run scored for the hosts, cutting the Eagle lead in half, 2-1.

The Eagles threatened in the fourth, but couldn't score, and the Argos really threatened Ward in the bottom of the inning, loading the bases with one out. However, the left-hander buckled down and struck out back-to-back Argonaut hitters to keep the Eagles up a run, and send the game to the fifth.

Ward worked a perfect fifth inning and got two outs quickly in the sixth before a double for UWF chased him from the game in favor of Stufano. Stufano got the Argo six-hole hitter to foul out to Josh Reynolds at first to end the inning and send the Eagles back to the plate.

Embry-Riddle scored an all-important insurance run in the top of the seventh as Coldsnow drove in Trillo with a two-out single to right, making it 3-1 Eagles.

The Argos made things interesting in their half of the seventh, scoring a run off of Balsam and putting the potential tying run in scoring position and potential winning run at first, but the Eagles' closer induced a harmless ground ball to end the game.

Embry-Riddle had three players with two hits in Trillo, Kennedy-Davis and Coldsnow.

Ward (1-4) got the win in 5.2 innings, striking out seven total Argonauts.