The Emory University baseball team earned its first win of the University Athletic Association conference slate Friday afternoon with 9-1 victory over New York University at Naimoli Complex on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

The Eagles were led by senior Josh Zuckerman who fired his second complete game of the season while the offense backed him with nine runs on 10 hits. The game was called in the middle of the ninth inning due to darkness.

Zuckerman worked eight solid innings to improve to 2-2 on the season as he surrendered the solo earned run on three hits and two walks while striking out eight Violet hitters. Zuckerman retired 26 of the 29 batters he faced including the final nine NYU hitters to come to plate and only allowed three to reach base over the final five innings.

A pair of RBI groundouts from Adrien Armstrong and Jonathan Lang in the top of the first gave Zuckerman all the run support he would need in the outing. The Eagles would add to their lead in the third as Connor Tam and Jake Lawson worked back-to-back bases-loaded walks to make the score 4-0.

Lawson padded the Emory advantage to 5-1 in fifth before Armstrong came across thanks to an error in the sixth. The Eagles continued their scoring the following inning with a run-scoring double by Lawson prior to him coming home in the frame on a wild pitch. The final tally of Emory's UAA-opening win came in the top of the eighth with a solo home run off the bat of freshman Dalton Needle for his second of the rookie campaign.

The Eagles and Violets will continue their four-game series at FDU on Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 12:00 PM.