Box Score

ELON, N.C. -- Thomas Girdwood struck out a career-high 10 hitters during a personal-best eight innings to help the Elon Phoenix claim an 8-2 victory over the Davidson Wildcats in game two of a three-game Southern Conference baseball series on Saturday evening.  The 10 Ks were the most by an Elon pitcher this season.

Davidson (18-24, 8-17 SoCon) snapped Elon's 19-inning streak of not allowing a run in the second inning when Michael Zeblo's single through the right side plated James Cerbie who had walked and stolen second with two outs.

Elon (29-17, 17-6) evened the score in the bottom half when Garrett Koster ripped a double to right-center on the ninth pitch of an at bat to score Ryan Kinsella who was on first after a fielder's choice.

Harry Austin began the last of the third with an infield single, moved to second on a sac bunt and to third on a fly out.  Austin then scored the second Elon run of the night when Sebastian Gomez doubled off the third base bag.  The Phoenix took a 3-1 lead as Neal Pritchard lined a 1-1 pitch into center which scored Gomez.

The Elon fifth started with a single from Niko Fraser.  A failed pickoff attempt allowed Fraser to race all the way to third before Gomez rapped his second double of the night to make it a 4-1 game.  Two batters later, Alex Swim lined a single into center to drive home Gomez to stretch the Phoenix lead to 5-1.

With two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Austin reached on his second infield single of the night and then swiped both second and third.  After Eric Serra walked and stole second, Fraser bounced a single back up the middle to plate both Austin and Serra as Elon built a 7-1 advantage.  Gomez picked up his third RBI when his infield single scored Fraser from second.

Davidson tacked on a run in the ninth when pinch-hitter J.P Craven's sacrifice fly brought home Sam Payne.

Gidwood improved to 3-4 on the season with the win.  Over his eight innings, the senior walked four and scattered three hits while allowing just one run.

Ian Horkley took the loss, falling to 4-4.  He surrendered five runs on eight hits in just 4.1 innings.

Gomez ran his hitting streak to seven games, including five consecutive multi-hit outings, by going 3-for-5 with two runs scored and career-high three RBI.  Fraser and Austin both posted 2-for-4 nights and each scored twice.  Fraser also drove in two.

For Davidson, Zeblo was 1-for-3 with a RBI while Cerbie went 1-for-2 with a run scored.

The Phoenix will look to complete the sweep of the Wildcats during Sunday's 1:30 p.m. game.