AIKEN, South Carolina - The Embry-Riddle baseball team finished off a 6-2 win over USC Aiken after the game was suspended from Friday night before dropping a 2-0 decision to the hosts in the day's second game. The Eagles moved to 8-5 overall, while the Pacers went to 9-3 witht the Saturday split.

The two teams wrap up their series with a true rubber match tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Game 1 • ERAU 6, USCA 2
In the day's first game, ERAU came away with a four-run lead, with all its offensive damage coming on Friday before rain forced the game to be suspended until Saturday. 

The game resumed in the bottom of the fourth with the Eagles leading 6-1, ERAU had scored four runs in the first inning without recording a hit, drawing six walks in the frame for a 4-0 lead.

USCA got one run back in the bottom of the first off of Eagle starter Tyler Stufano, but Josh Reynolds hit a massive two-run homer to left in the second for a 6-1 advantage.

When the game resumed on Saturday Gunnar Harrison was on the bump for the Blue and Gold, and the sophomore was great, pitching all six innings, allowing just one run on four hits with a pair of strikeouts. He set the tone right off the bat in the fourth, needing just seven pitches to retire all three batters he faced.

Harrison again faced the minimum in the fifth, but found himself in a bit of trouble in the sixth when the Pacers put two men on with one out. However, Harrison limited the damage to just one run, and had no issues in either the seventh or eighth innings.

USCA got a leadoff double and then two-out walk in the bottom of the ninth, but Harrison was up to the task again, getting a softly hit ground ball that resulted in the final out to preserve the 6-2 win.

Harrison (2-0) got the win, while he and Stufano combined to scatter just seven hits in the game.

Game 2 • USCA 2, ERAU 0
The Eagles were on the wrong side of a pitcher's duel in the day's second game. Connor Dunnam (1-3) once again was superb, but the Eagle offense could do nothing against a trio of Pacer pitchers, striking out 10 times in the loss.

The one and really only time the Blue and Gold threatened to scored was in the first when Timo Aracena walked and Jeremy Kennedy-Davis followed with a double, putting two runners in scoring position with one out for the heart of the ERAU order. However, Matt Garcia, the Pacer starter struck out the next Eagle batter and then got a line out off the bat of Josh Reynolds to escape the jam.

Dunnam returned the favor in the home-half of the inning, getting out of a two on, one out situation to send the game to the second inning unscathed.

The Eagles got their second and third hits of the game in the second, but those would prove to be their last. ERAU went scoreless in that inning and Dunnam was forced to try and match zeroes with Garcia, which he was able to do through the game's first four frames.

The only runs in the contest came in the bottom of the fifth when the Pacers put runners on the corners with two outs. A hard-hit ball to third resulted in a base hit, and the throw from Aracena to first sailed wide, allowing both runners on base, who reached via walks, score for a 2-0 lead.

Dunnam got out of a bases-loaded, no out situation in the sixth with a pair of Ks and a ground ball, but the Eagles couldn't care that momentum into the offensive half-inning, going 1-2-3.

The Eagles got one baserunner in the eighth, but couldn't do anything with him, and then went quietly in the ninth against USCA's closer.

Dunnam threw 7.0 innings, striking out six and walking six, allowing just three hits, while Knute Rockey pitched a scoreless eighth inning for the Eagles.