The Emory baseball team split with Middlebury College in a home doubleheader Saturday afternoon, falling to the Panthers 7-4 in game one but bouncing back to take game two with a 16-15 extra-inning win with junior Mitchell Smallwood hitting the walk off to secure the victory.

Game 1: Middlebury 7, Emory 4

With the top of the first going scoreless, the Eagles saw the opportunity to get on the board early as junior Jonathan Lang hit a bases loaded RBI to bring Jake Lawson home. Later in the inning, grad transfer Mark Serdinak delivered a sac fly that gave junior Zach Hanson an unearned run to make it 2-0.

With Middlebury putting up four runs in the top of the third, the Eagles found their third run of the game in an Adrien Armstrong sac fly that brought rookie Connor Tam home, bringing the score to 4-3 going into the eighth.

Despite putting three Eagles on base in the eighth and a Dalton Needle sac fly in the ninth to give Emory their fourth run, the Eagles couldn't battle back from Middlebury's three-run inning in the top of the ninth, with the Panthers taking the 7-4 win.

Game 2: Emory 16, Middlebury 15 (11 Innings)

The high-scoring second game of the doubleheader saw no runs from the Eagles in the first three innings while the Panthers earned a pair of runs in the second and another in the third to start the game 3-0.

The Eagles found their first run of the day in a bases-loaded walk from Lang to earn his first of three RBIs to make it 3-1 going into the fourth.

Extending their lead into the fourth, Middlebury secured four runs off the Eagles defense to bring the score to 7-1, but the Eagles got hot in their half of the fourth, putting up seven runs to take the 8-7 lead.

Despite a pair of runs from the Panthers in the top of the fifth, the Eagles maintained their rhythm as Tam scored on a wild pitch to tie the game 9-9 heading into the sixth.

It was a cat and mouse game for the remainder of regulation as Middlebury put up three runs in their half of the sixth to take the 12-9 lead, but the Eagles responded to tie the game at 12-12 thanks to a pair of runs from Needle and freshman Mario Borges.

Middlebury would lose their momentum in the top of the seventh while the Eagles took back the lead with a monster single from Tam to bring home three Eagles, bringing the score to 15-12 heading into the eighth.

The Panthers responded to the Emory hot streak with a home run in their part of the eighth and a pair of runs in the ninth to tie it at 15-15, but the Eagles were unable to get it done in regulation as the game headed into extra innings.

The tenth went scoreless on both sides, but junior Mitchell Smallwood drove in the walk-off single that brought senior Zach Wasserlauf home to give the Eagles the 16-15 win after 20 innings of baseball on the day.

The Eagles and Panthers will conclude their weekend series Sunday morning with the finale set to get underway at 9:30 am at Chappell Park.