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PEMBROKE – Max Gagnon's two-run homer to the gap in right field keyed a 3-run fifth inning for the 16th-ranked UNC Pembroke baseball team that helped the Braves erase an early deficit and clinch the weekend series with Georgia Southwestern with a 10-4 win over the Hurricanes on a soggy Sunday afternoon at Sammy Cox Field.

The victory moved the Braves (20-6, 9-6 PBC) to 11-2 at home this season, while also giving UNCP its sixth series win of the campaign. The loss was the seventh setback in the last eight outings for Georgia Southwestern (5-18, 3-12).

Brett Huffman doubled and scored once on a 3-for-4 day at the plate to pace the Braves, while Daniel Fraga doubled and scored three times on a 2-for-4 hitting line. Gagnon plated a trio of runs on a 1-for-3 tally with a sac fly. Stephen Eldridge scored twice on a 3-for-5 plate performance to pace the Hurricanes.

Andy Sullivan (4-0) struck out four and allowed three runs (two earned) over 6-1/3 innings of effective pitching to grab the win and stay perfect on the season for the hosts, while Patrick McMahon picked up his second save of the campaign by allowing just one hit in 1-1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Lance Shelton (1-6) took the loss for the visitors after yielding four runs (three earned) on six hits and five walks in six innings from the hill.

Huffman singled in the first run of the game to give the Braves a 1-0 edge in the bottom of the second, but Georgia Southwestern struck for a pair of runs in the fourth, and then stretched its lead out to 3-1 on Evan Alderman's RBI single up the middle in the fifth. Victor Zecca reached on a bunt single to lead off the fifth and set the table for a towering game-tying bomb from Gagnon moments later. Fraga doubled and scored on a wild pitch later in the frame to give UNCP the lead for good.

Georgia Southwestern cut its deficit back to a single run, 5-4, in the top of the eighth, but the Braves put the game away with five runs in the bottom half of the inning.

UNCP will close out a three-game home stand on Tuesday when it suits up to battle St. Augustine's (9-18) in a 6 p.m. contest at Sammy Cox Field.