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ELON, N.C. -- Ken Ferrer struck out five over seven scoreless innings while Grant McCoury connected on his fourth home run of the season to lead the Elon Phoenix to a 10-0 Southern Conference victory over the visiting Davidson Wildcats on Friday night. 

Ferrer (5-3) moved into a tie for second in career victories in program history with the win with 27, equaling the mark of C.V. "Lefty" Briggs (1927-30).  The shutout was also the second in a row for the Phoenix (28-17, 16-6 SoCon), a first since blanking Wofford 8-0 and 10-0 on April 8-9, 2006.

Davidson dropped to 18-23, 8-16.

After Niko Fraser reached on a fielder's choice in the bottom of the first for Elon, Sebastian Gomez and Neal Pritchard rapped back-to-back singles to score the first run of the game.  With runners on the corners, Pritchard broke for second and got hung up long enough to allow Gomez to score to make it a 2-0 game.

Following a lead-off walk to Garrett Koster in the last of the second, McCoury crushed a 1-1 pitch over the scoreboard in left-center for his fourth home run of the season as the Phoenix built a 4-0 advantage.  With one away, Jake Luce laced a double just inside the left field line and moved to third on a ground out.  Luce scored the third Elon run when Gomez lined single into center field.  Gomez would swipe second and head to third as the throw went into center.  Pritchard picked up his second RBI of the night by driving home Gomez with a single into left-center.

Gomez began the Elon seventh with a walk, advanced to second on a ground out and to third when Alex Swim reached on an error.  A wild pitch allowed Gomez to score and Swim to race all the way to third.  Cyle Rasmus then made it an 8-0 game by lacing a double down the left field line.  Koster drew his third walk of the night to put two aboard for McCoury who lined a single to left that should have loaded the bases, but the ball skipped under the glove of the fielder and rolled to the wall allowing both Rasmus and Koster to score and McCoury to take second as the Phoenix lead stretched to 10-0.

Elon roughed up Wildcat starter Chris Lamb (1-6) for six runs (five earned) on nine hits in just five innings.

Offensively, Gomez extended his hitting streak to six games, the last four of which have all been multi-hit outings, by going 3-for-4 with three runs scored and one RBI.  McCoury finished the night 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI.  Pritchard also had a two-hit night, going 2-for-3 with two RBI.

Seth Freeman recorded two of Davidson's four hits.

Elon and Davidson will square off again at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday in game two of this three-game set.