PEMBROKE – Ben Schmucker's RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh helped the UNC Pembroke baseball team stake claim to a late 7-5 lead, but ninth-ranked Erskine sent its entire order to the plate in a 4-run eighth en route to 10-5 win over the Braves on Tuesday afternoon at Sammy Cox Field.

Wiley Jackson (3-for-4) singled three times on four trips to the plate to pace the Braves (17-7), while Schmucker finished his day with a 2-for-4 hitting line. Drew Cole singled in a pair of runs and scored once on a 1-for-4 outing for the hosts as well.

Brandon Overstreet homered, drove in four runs and scored three times on a 3-for-6 day for the Flying Fleet (22-2) who have now won 11 of their last 12 outings. Joey Wilson (3-for-5, 2B) and Alex Garland (3-for-4, R) both registered 3-hit days for the visitors as well.

Reliever Daniel Batts (1-1) allowed five hits and four earned runs in a short relief stint in the seventh to take the loss for the Braves. Erskine utilized six pitchers in the outing, with reliever Joe Johnson (2-0) grabbing the victory despite registering just the final out in the seventh.

Cole's two-run single in the bottom of the second put the Braves out in front 2-0, but Erskine used an ill-timed wild pitch to plate the tying run in the fifth, and then tacked up two more runs in the sixth to take a 4-2 advantage. Collins Cuthrell, Zade Denton and Schmucker all had RBI knocks in the seventh to help the Braves retake the lead.

UNCP will step back into Peach Belt Conference play this weekend when it makes the long trip to Americus, Ga., to take on Georgia Southwestern (7-17, 2-13 PBC) in a three-game series at Hurricane Stadium. The squads will open up the weekend with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday and close out the set with a 1 p.m. single game on Sunday.