ASHLAND, Va. - The EMU baseball team hasn't played a game in more than 10 days. But that didn't stop their bats from staying hot as they split a doubleheader at Randolph-Macon on Saturday. 

The Royals poured it on in game one, beating the Yellow Jackets 17-8 before falling in game two, 16-8. EMU now stands at 10-20, 6-11 ODAC. 

Highlights - Game One

• RMC used back-to-back homeruns to take a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first off EMU starter Hunter West. The Royals responded, tying the game at three with an Ethan Spraker two-run homerun in the second and a Natty Solomon RBI single in the third. An RBI double by Randolph-Macon gave them the lead back in the bottom of the third. 
• The Royals blew the game open across the middle innings. In the fourth, Brett Lindsay plated a run with a single, Ray Tricarico followed that up with an RBI single of his own and Robert Guenther, Spraker and Logan Mason all picked up RBIs as well, giving EMU a 9-4 lead after four. A Guenther two-RBI single in the fifth and a Jaylon Lee RBI single in the sixth gave EMU an eight-run cushion. 
• Brendon Barrett, who replaced West on the mound in the fourth, got in a jam in the sixth and gave up four runs before Jon Sawyers came in and got a strikeout to end the frame. 
• The Royals added five more in their half of the ninth with Guenther, Spraker, Mason and Jordan Jones all driving in runs. Sawyers worked around a ninth inning single and walk to pick up the win, his third of the season. Tricarico finished with four hits to go along with an RBI and three runs. Guenther and Spraker each had three hits and drove in four runs. Guenther and Lindsay scored three times each for the Royals. 

Highlights - Game Two

• This time it was the Royals who got the scoring started as Solomon drove in Tricarico and Lee with a single up the middle, giving EMU a 2-0 lead. RMC responded with four of their own in the first off EMU starter Alec Riles. 
• A Tricarico sac fly in the top of the third cut the Royals deficit to a run, 4-3, but the Yellow Jackets were able to break the game open in their half of the third, sending 10 guys to the plate and scoring seven runs. Like EMU did in the first game, they added more in the middle innings, eventually taking a 16-3 lead.
• Mason, Alex Gulisano, Cole Bashinski and Logan Jones all drove in runs but it wasn't enough as Randolph-Macon was able to pick up the win. 
• Riles took the loss for EMU, giving up nine earned runs in 2.1 innings. The back half of the Royals bullpen, Gage Riddick, Daniel Hupart and Adrian Abad, held RMC to just one run over the final three innings. 
• At the plate, Lee and Lindsay each had a pair of hits while Solomon and Gulisano had two RBI each. 

What's Next

EMU will be back on the road Tuesday when they head to Winchester for a matchup with Shenandoah. First pitch for that game is scheduled for 4 pm. 

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