The Emory baseball team had a great start to their weekend series against Case Western Reserve, run-ruling the Spartans 18-8 in game one and winning 7-1 in game two to start the weekend 2-0.

Game 1: Emory 18, Case Western Reserve 8 (8 innings)

Senior starting pitcher Josh Zuckerman made quick work of the Spartans to start the game, holding them to four batters with one left on base before the Eagles went up to bat.

Junior outfielder Jonathan Lang got the day started for the Eagles, delivering an RBI single to bring Jake Lawson home to make it 1-0. Two at bats later, senior Zach Wasserlauf smoked a double down the left field line to score Dalton Needle and Lang to bring the score to 3-0 going into the second.

The second went scoreless before the Spartans found the board in their half of the third, putting up a single and scoring on a wild pitch to close in on the lead and make the score 3-2.

The Emory bats responded in the bottom of the third with a four-run frame as Corey Goldstick got it started with an RBI single, advancing to third off a fielding error to score Wasserlauf and Lang. Freshman infielder Connor Tam followed that with a single of his own through the left side to bring Goldstick home and make it 6-2 while Hanson reached on a fielder's choice to help Mitchell Smallwood score, giving the Eagles the 7-2 lead going into the fourth.

The Spartans would put up a pair of runs in the away half of the fourth to make it 7-4 before going scoreless until the Emory half of the sixth.

The Eagles delivered a seven-run frame off two hits and seven walks in the sixth to give the Eagles the 14-4 lead, with Lawson getting the scoring started as he came home on the wild pitch. The first bases-loaded walk of the inning came from Wasserlauf to score Hanson before a bases-loaded hit by pitch from Goldstick brought Lang home to make it 11-4. Smallwood also walked with bases loaded to score Needle before Lawson got one of his own to bring Wasserlauf home and bring the score to 12-4. The final runs of the inning came from a Hanson 2 RBI single that scored Smallwood and Goldstick to end the inning with a 14-4 lead.

In an attempt to avoid a run rule, the Spartans scored a pair of runs to bring the score to 14-6 going into the seventh.

The Eagles put up a single run in their half of the seventh to make it 15-6 as Tam singled up the middle to score Goldstick.

The away half of the eighth saw another pair of runs from the Spartans as they tried closing in on the lead, but the Eagles responded as a Lang double scored Hanson while a sac fly from Needle brought the score to 17-8. The game-deciding run came from a bases-loaded single RBI to bring the score to 18-8 as the Eagles run-ruled the Spartans.

Game 2: Emory 7, Case Western Reserve 1

The Eagles got the scoring started in the first inning of game two as Hanson tripled and came home on an error during Wasserlauf's at bat to make it 1-0.

The Spartans found the board in their half of the second thanks to a sac bunt to tie it at 1-1 before the game went scoreless until the Emory half of the third.

The lone run in the third inning for the Eagles came from a Hanson double that scored Lawson to make it 2-1 before two and a half scoreless innings.

In the Emory half of the sixth, grad student Mark Serdinak scored on an error by the third baseman to make it 3-1. Two at bats later, Tam singled to right center, scoring Nick Sullo and Mario Borges to bring the score to 5-1.

With the Spartans unable to respond in the seventh, the Eagles got another run on the board as Needle smoked a homer out to right field to extend the Eagles lead to 6-1.

The eighth saw another one-run inning from the Eagles as a Wasserlauf RBI single scored Hanson to make it 7-1 as the Spartans were unable to respond in the ninth, giving the Eagles their fifth conference win of the season.

Freshman pitcher Owen Stone earned his fourth win of the season for the Eagles, going for eight innings as he recorded one run on four hits with four strikeouts in his first starting assignment for Emory.

The Eagles will look to take the series tomorrow as they play a doubleheader against Case Western Reserve tomorrow due to inclement weather Sunday, with first pitch set for noon at Chappell Park.