Bridgewater, Va. -- The No. 6-ranked University of Lynchburg baseball team wrapped up the top seed in the upcoming Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament Saturday with a doubleheader split at Bridgewater. BC took Game 1 by a 6-2 score before the Hornets dominated Game 2, 12-6.

The Eagles took the lead in the bottom of the first in Game 1 thanks to a Kevin Navedo RBI single and added another run in the second for a 2-0 lead. BC then added insurance in the fifth and sixth innings and led 5-0.

Lynchburg got some offense going in the seventh, sparked by a Carrson Atkins leadoff single. Logan Webster then singled Atkins home for the Hornets' first run, and an Avery Neaves RBI groundout later in the inning cut the deficit to 5-2. Bridgewater got a run back in the bottom half and squelched a pair of Lynchburg threats in the final two frames to clinch the series-opening victory.

The Hornets changed the tone early in Game 2. PJ Alvanos kicked off the Lynchburg rally in the top of the second with a leadoff single, and Riley O'Donovan, Atkins, Cameron Lane, and Garrett Jackson all delivered RBI knocks in the five-run frame. The Hornets added runs in the next two innings to take a 10-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth, but then the Bridgewater bats woke up. The Eagles scored thrice on Lynchburg starter Nick Mattfield to cut into the deficit and scored three times more in the sixth to make it a ballgame.

Grayson Thurman entered in relief with nobody out in the sixth and put out the fire, and the right-hander dominated the rest of the way for his Division III-leading 11th save of the season. Mattfield earned the win to move to 8-0 on the year.

Lynchburg didn't need the cushion, but Holden Fiedler provided it anyway with a two-run single in the eighth inning.

Lane was 2-for-5 with three RBI in the second ballgame, and Josh Gjormand was 2-for-3 and drove in a pair.

With the split, Lynchburg secured the top seed for the ODAC baseball tournament, which will begin next weekend with best-of-three series at home sites. Lynchburg is the top seed for the first time since the 2012 season; the Hornets won the tournament that year. The ODAC office will announce the full field and tournament schedule later this evening when all regular-season competition has concluded.

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