Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

DAVIDSON, N.C. -- The Elon Phoenix baseball team split a Saturday afternoon doubleheader at Davidson, cruising to a 10-2 victory in game one before dropping a heart-wrenching 12-11 decision in 11 innings in game two.  The split leaves Elon's record at 12-7 overall and 6-2 in Southern Conference play.  The Wildcats are now 6-10, 1-4.

GAME ONE

Elon offense got of to a great start and the Phoenix rode the left arm of Dylan Clark to claim a 10-2 victory.

Clark threw up seven zeros to run his scoreless innings streak to 13 as he improved to 5-1 on the year.  He struck out four and gave up just two hits on the day.

The Phoenix offense got things going with a one-out double by Jake Luce in the first.  After an error put runners on the corners, Ryan Kinsella connected on the first pitch he saw and sent it just inside the foul pole down the left field line to give Elon a 3-0 lead.

Joey Tomko and Chris Bresnahan started the Elon second with back-to-back hits to put runners on the corners.  Tomko raced home on Eric Serra's ground out to make it 4-0 before Bresnahan scored on a Niko Fraser single.  Fraser would later score the sixth Phoenix run on a Luce double as the maroon and gold built a 6-0 lead.

Elon tacked on two more in the fourth on a Luce single and Kinsella sacrifice fly before scoring once more in the sixth on an Alex Swim single.  The Phoenix plated its final marker in the eighth when Garrett Koster drew a bases-loaded walk.

Davidson managed to score a single run in both the eighth and ninth off of the Elon bullpen to provide the final margin.

Luce finished game one 4-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.  He became the first Elon player to double three times in a game since Cory Harrilchak did so against Appalachian State on Feb. 27, 2009.

Davidson's Brian Russell (1-2) took the loss after giving up nine runs on 10 hits in six innings.

GAME TWO

Davidson jumped on top early, scoring four runs in the first, and then had to rally from an 11-9 deficit in the bottom of the 11th to defeat the Phoenix in game two.

After the Phoenix had rallied to take its only lead of the game in the top of the 11th on a Koster two-RBI triple, the Wildcats drew back-to-back walks to start the bottom half.  Pinch-hitter Daniel Gerow then doubled to right-center to even the score at 11.  After a strike out and ground out, Drew Gadaire lined a single to right to drive home the winning run.  It marks the first extra-inning loss in four games for the Phoenix this year.

The Wildcats managed just two hits in its four-run first, but used two hit batters, two walks, a catcher's interference call and another Elon error to take the lead.

Elon came back with three runs in the second.  Kinsella got things started with his second home run of the day.  With two outs, Tomko reached on an error, Bresnahan singled and Serra walked to load the bases.  Sebastian Gomez ripped a double to center to score two to pull the maroon and gold within one.

After Davidson added two to its total to take a 6-3 lead after two innings, the Phoenix rallied for another three runs to tie the game in the third.  Koster followed singles from Swim and Kinsella with a double to drive home one.  With one out, Tomko singled home the second run.  Later, Serra's infield single plated the tying marker.

The Wildcats went back in front with two in the fourth and added one in the sixth to take a 9-6 lead before Elon posted its third three-run inning of the game in the eighth.  A Serra single with one out put runners on the corners for Gomez who singled to right-center to score the first run.  Luce's single up the middle drove home the second and the final run came in on Swim's single.

Nate Young (2-1) suffered the loss for Elon as he gave up three runs on two hits in 1.1 innings.  David Whitehead's performance out of the bullpen kept the Phoenix in the game.  Whitehead came on in the fifth and tossed 5.1 innings.  He gave up one run on three hits and struck out six.

Clark Beeker (2-1) was the winner out of the pen for Davidson.  He allowed three runs on six hits in 3.2 innings.

Swim had hits in both ends of the doubleheader to extend his hitting streak to a career-best 12 games.

Elon will look to claim the series win when the two teams meet at 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.