MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. --- Aaron Guinn finished 4-for-5 and Alexi Colon hit two home runs as No. 2 Tusculum College defeated No. 6 Francis Marion University 7-2 in an NCAA Division II Southeast Regional game at Scarborough Field early Saturday morning.

The start time of the game was pushed back over 4 1/2 hours due to schedule changes brought about by Thursday's rain. First pitch came at 11:40 p.m. Friday night and the final out was recorded at 2:15 a.m. local time.

With the win, the second-seeded Pioneers (48-8) are the lone unbeaten team in the six-team regional. Tusculum will play Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. against the winner of the 1:00 game between Lander and Francis Marion (38-17), with a berth in the region championship game awaiting.

Taylor Rakes (10-1) went the distance and struck out a career-high 10 batters for the Pioneers. He scattered 10 hits and allowed just one earned run while throwing 135 pitches.

Guinn, who delivered the game-winning single in the eighth inning of the Pioneers' 4-3 win over Catawba 12 hours earlier, drove in a pair of runs for the Pioneers in his fourth four-hit game of the season. Colon hit solo home runs in the fifth and ninth innings and Cody Coffman was 3-for-5 with a seventh-inning solo home run as part of a 14-hit attack.

With his two home runs, Colon has 33 career roundtrippers in just two seasons at Tusculum, two shy of the program record of 35 set by Sean Cotten (2008-11). His 21 home runs this season are tied for the second-most in a single season in school history with Guy O'Connell (2003), behind the 23 blasts hit by Jared Richmond in 2010. It was Colon's fifth two-homer game of the season and seventh of his career.

The Pioneers opened the game with three straight singles against Patriots starter Matt Broderick, but were unable to get on the scoreboard as Lukas Graves was thrown out at the plate attempting to score on a hit by Guinn.

"Our approach at the plate was good tonight," said Tusculum head coach Doug Jones. "We executed throughout the game, especially in the first couple innings and I felt that set the tone for us. We gained confidence at the plate as the game went on and Guinn's effort was outstanding. Alexi Colon came through with a pair of big homers for us tonight, while Nate Reid continued to shine for us as his hard work during our three-week layoff at the end of the season is providing divedends."

Tusculum got on the board with two runs in the top of the second, as back-to-back singles by Heath Comerford and Nate Reid were followed by a walk to Tripper Crisson to load the bases with one out. Graves hit into a force out to plate Comerford with the first run, and Guinn singled home Reid to push the Pioneers on top 2-0.

In the third, the Pioneers added a run against reliever Jarrott Hooks to take a 3-0 lead. Colon walked, moved to third on a single by Coffman and scored on a forceout by Carlos Santana.

The Patriots scored twice in the fourth with two outs, on an RBI single by Tyler Boyd and an error, but the Pioneers got the run right back in the fifth on a leadoff home run by Colon, his 20th of the season, to take a 4-2 lead.

Tusculum tacked on another run in the sixth as Guinn came through with his fourth hit of the game, an RBI single with two outs that brought home Graves for a 5-2 Pioneer lead.

Coffman hit his eighth home run of the season with one out in the seventh to extend the Tusculum lead to 6-2, and Colon connected for his second of the game with one out in the ninth off reliever Justin Turbeville to close out the scoring.

"I thought Taylor competed well tonight," Jones added. "He battled through his first three innings where he had some control issues. But I felt as the game progressed, he got better and gave us a solid performance on the mound."

Jarrod Reed and Jacob Golliday had two hits apiece for the Patriots, who had opened the tournament with an 11-2 victory over Armstrong Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.

Broderick (8-3) worked two innings for the Patriots, giving up six hits and two earned runs. Hooks was touched for seven hits and four runs in five innings of relief, while Turbeville allowed just the solo homer to Colon in his two innings of work.