Box Score

ELON, N.C. -- Tyler McVicar homered in back-to-back at bats and the Elon Phoenix scored in every inning as the maroon and gold picked up a 17-9 non-league baseball victory over the visiting Towson Tigers on Friday night.

The 17 runs were the most scored by an Elon team this season and McVicar became the first Elon player to hit homers in back-to-back at bats since Neal Pritchard did so against High Point in May of 2009.  Garrett Koster added four hits, including his team-leading eighth home run of the season, as the Phoenix improved to 20-16 on the season. 

Eight of Elon's nine starters had at least one hit and seven players posted multi-hit nights.  Along with Koster (4-for-5, two runs, two RBI) and McVicar (2-for-6, two runs, two RBI), Sebastian Gomez (2-for-5, four runs), Alex Swim (2-for-4, two runs, three RBI), Ryan Kinsella (2-for-3, two runs, two RBI), Jake Luce (2-for-4, three RBI) and Chris Bresnahan (3-for-5, two runs, one RBI) all posted multiple hits.

Towson (17-17) actually got on the board first, scoring two runs on a Kurtis Voytell double in its first at bat.

Trailing 2-1 in the last of the second, Elon sent nine men to the plate and scored four runs.  McVicar led it off by driving a 1-1 pitch over the wall in right to knot the game at two.  After Gomez reached and went to second on an error, Swim put the Phoenix in front for good with a single up the middle.  A Luce single drove in the final two of the inning.

McVicar led off the third with his second bomb, this one hit off the scoreboard in left-center.  Elon would score one more that inning to make it a 7-2 game.

Elon took an 11-3 lead into the sixth before Towson rallied for four runs, including two on a homer by Ben Winter.

The Phoenix came right back with two in the bottom half to add to its cushion.  With the score 13-7, Koster drilled a 3-2 pitch deep over the fence in left-center.

Towson scored single runs in the eighth and the ninth while Elon plated three in the eighth to provide the final 17-9 score.

Dylan Clark won for the seventh time this year, upping his record to 7-2.  He went 5.2 innings and allowed four runs.  John Antonelli threw the final 3.1 innings to garner his second save of the season.

Sean Bertrand fell to 0-1 as he allowed 10 runs (seven earned) on 11 hits in just 4.1 innings.

Elon and Towson will play game two of this three-game series at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday night.