Box Score PRESCOTT, ARIZ. – The Embry-Riddle baseball team returned home and gave its fans a show on Friday, scoring nine runs in the first inning and running away with the game from there. The Eagles shut down Providence Christian, and Mitchell Mussler held them to just two hits in a 15-0 victory.
Mussler shut down the Sea Beggars all afternoon long, striking out 12 and did not walk a batter. He did not allow a hit until the sixth inning, and allowed just four baserunners in the game, all after the fourth inning.
After Travis Strickler failed to reach to lead off the Eagles half of the first, the next nine batters reached for ERAU. They scored all nine runs in that stretch, with Strickler redeeming himself later in the inning with a three-run home run.
The Eagles continued its offense in the second, scoring a pair when Calvin Solie tripled home Josh Beattie, then scored on Blake Moore's single. The Eagles scored three more times in the fourth, highlighted by Owen Cain's two-RBI double, and added one more run in the sixth.
The Eagles had 21 hits, and seven different players had multi-hit games. Carson Ramocinski, Calvin Solie, Moore and Strickler each had three hits, while Cain, Jepsen and Roberto Garza-Nunez each had a pair.
Strickler and Moore also had three RBI each, while Ramocinski, Cain, Jepsen and Solie each drove in two. Both of Cain's hits were doubles, and Solie had a triple in the second.
Embry-Riddle will wrap up its series with Providence Christian on Saturday in a doubleheader in Prescott. First pitch from the ERAU Baseball Field is scheduled for 11 a.m.