GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Harrison Travis went 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI to lead visiting Carson-Newman to a 9-6 win at Tusculum Monday afternoon at Pioneer Park in South Atlantic Conference baseball action.
The Eagles (24-17, 9-8 SAC) win the SAC weekend series 2-1 while also evening the season series with the Pioneers at 2-2.
Carson-Newman posted 15 hits in the victory, including multi-hit outings by Andrew Carpenter, Zach Boze, Matt Parkinson and Jordan Griffin.
Tusculum's Tyler Ranel led the Pioneers with his 3-for-4 performance which included his third homer of the season. TU also got two-hit performances from Ryan Dos Santos and Rudy Fernandez as the Pioneers accounted for 11 hits in the game.
The Eagles jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning sparked by Travis' first homer of the game, a three-run blast to left field. He would make it a 5-0 lead on his RBI triple in the second inning. Tusculum trimmed the deficit to 5-4 with four runs in the second including a RBI double by Luis Ezra and Ranel's two-run blast to center.
Carpenter homered in the top of the third with his solo shot, but Christian Ortega followed with a homer to trim the C-N lead to 6-5.
Travis answered top of the fourth inning with his second round-tripper of the afternoon with his towering shot down the led field line and a 7-5 advantage.
Tusculum got the run in the back in the bottom of the frame with Dos Santos' RBI single.
The Eagles added a run each in the sixth and seventh to cap the scoring.
C-N reliever Noah Pridmore earned the win to improve to 4-2, going 1.2 innings allowing two hits and a walk. Jake Wright recorded three strikeouts pitching in the final frame to record his fifth save.
TU starter Gunner Becker (1-4) was tagged with the loss. Gage Newsom pitched 2.2 shutout innings with two strikeouts for the Pioneers.
Tusculum (16-22, 5-13 SAC) returns to action on Tuesday for a 3 p.m. non-conference game at Mars Hill. TU won last week's game 13-4 in Greeneville.