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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Elon Phoenix baseball team battled back from an early deficit to claim a 5-4 victory over the North Carolina A&T Aggies at War Memorial Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.  The win gave Elon (11-6) a sweep of the season series with A&T (6-12).

Trailing 3-2 in the top of the sixth inning, Elon rallied for three runs to take a 5-2 lead that it would never relinquish.  Joey Tomko got things started with a single to left before Sebastian Gomez delivered a one-out, pinch-hit double to put two aboard.  After Niko Fraser was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Alex Swim hit a two-out grounder to short that was bobbled allowing Tomko to score to make it 3-3.  Garrett Koster followed with a walk on the eighth pitch of his at bat to force home Gomez with the go-ahead run.  A wild pitch would then allow Fraser to race in with the final Phoenix marker.

The Phoenix fell behind 2-0 in the bottom of the first inning when Marquis Riley doubled home Andre McKoy and then scored on a Luke Tendler ground out.

Elon answered in the top of the second with two runs of its own.  Koster led off with a walk and went to second on a Ryan Kinsella single.  After Koster swiped third with one out, Tomko rapped the first of his three hits on the day to drive home Koster.  Jake Luce's bunt single loaded the bases ahead of a walk to Chris Bresnahan that forced home Kinsella with the tying run.

A&T moved back in front, 3-2, in the last of the second on when Riley drew a bases-loaded walk.

The Aggies made it a 5-4 game in the seventh on a Riley ground out.

Andrew MacDonald (2-0) earned the win with 3.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen.  He struck out three and gave up just one hit.  He was followed by Jordan Darnell, Ryan Pennell, Michael Elefante and Nate Young.  That quartet combined to give up one unearned run on four hits in four innings.  Young picked up his second save of the campaign.

Tyler Boone (2-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up three unearned runs on four hits in three frames of relief work.

Tomko (3-for-5, one run, one RBI) and Koster (2-for-2, one run, one RBI, two stolen bases) both had multi-hit outings for the Phoenix.  Swim picked up a hit in his final at bat of the day to run his hitting streak to 10 games.

Elon will return to Southern Conference play this weekend as the Phoenix visits Davidson.  The three-game series gets underway at 7 p.m. on Friday evening.