The Emory University baseball team won its fourth consecutive game Tuesday night after going on the road and defeating LaGrange College, 8-2, at Cleaveland Field.

The Eagles were led on the evening by strong pitching performances, highlighted by junior JT Rattigan who won his first game of the season. Rattigan allowed an unearned run in five innings of work while allowing three hits and two walks as he struck out four. Senior Paul Fine and graduate student Nic Roma combined to limit the Panthers to one run over the final four innings of relief with Roma securing the team's first save of the year with two scoreless frames to go along with four strikeouts.

Juniors Jake Lawson and Zach Hanson supplied the early run support in Emory's two-run third inning with Lawson plating Corey Goldstick with a single through the right side before freshman Connor Tam came around to score later on a Hanson fielder's choice.

The Eagles scored again in both the fifth and sixth innings and took a 4-2 lead into the ninth. In Emory's final turn at bat, the Eagles took advantage of ineffectiveness from the LC hurlers by scoring four times thanks to four walks and a hit-by-pitch.

Roma, who entered in the eighth, sent down the Panthers in order in the home half of the frame to seal the road win.

Emory will be back on the diamond Friday afternoon with a trip up Lookout Mountain to battle Covenant College in the first of three games this weekend. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 2:00 PM.