Lynchburg, Va. -- The University of Lynchburg baseball team swept Wittenberg in two, seven-inning games on Tuesday. Lynchburg won the first game 6-3 and scored in all six half innings during a 13-10 win in Game 2. 

The Tigers owned the first lead of the day in Game 1 getting two across against the Lynchburg starter Colin McGuire. He went two innings and was relieved by Domenic Rowlands for 2 1/3 frames. Rowlands earned the win as Lynchburg took the lead during his outing in the third. It was a four-run inning fueled by a three-run shot to left from Eric Hiett and a solo slam to right from Benton Jones in back-to-back at-bats. Jones was 1-1 in the contest with a sacrifice fly in the sixth and two walks. 

Mason McDowell earned the final five outs of the game for his second save of the season. He struck out one, only allowed one hit, and stranded three. 

Lynchburg used seven pitchers in a back-and-forth affair in Game 2 that featured 23 runs, 24 hits, and two grand slams. Riley O'Donovan hit Lynchburg's four-run shot in the third after previously homering in the second. It was his first-career two-homer game. 

Jones walked three more times in Game 2 and swiped two bags. Hiett continued his hot day with three more RBI, Gavin Collins went 3-4, and O'Donovan drove in seven runs. O'Donovan had the go-ahead hit in the fifth inning with a two-RBI single, scoring Logan Webster and Collins. His sixth and seventh RBI put Lynchburg in the lead for good, 12-10. The next inning, Collins gave Lynchburg another insurance run scoring pinch-runner Isaiah Street with a single to right. 

The Hornets (7-4) dropped to No. 12 in the d3baseball.com poll announced earlier in the day Tuesday. They open Old Dominion Athletic Conference play on Saturday, March 9 on the road against Bridgewater for a double-header. 

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