Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ELON, N.C. -- The Elon baseball team erupted for 15 runs thanks in part to a career game from Ryan Kinsella to win the opener of a Southern Conference doubleheader with Wofford 15-5.  The Terriers then claimed the nightcap in an 11-5 contest.

Elon is now 21-20 overall and 13-7 in SoCon action while Wofford is 16-25, 7-13.

Game One

After Wofford grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Elon tied the game when Alex Swim singled home Kinsella.

The Phoenix then moved on top in the third thanks to a three-run homer to left-center off the bat of Kinsella.  Elon then increased its lead to 10-1 in the fourth after erupting for six runs.  It began with a one-out bunt single from Blaine Bower which was followed by a hit-and-run single up the middle from Quinn Bower that put runners on the corners.  After a walk loaded the bases, Kinsella drove in two more with a single through the right side.  A wild pitch scored Elon's third run of the frame ahead of a walk to Swim.  With two down, Joey Tomko drove home Kinsella with a single up the middle.  The two runners then raced home on a Chris King double that ended the scoring in the fourth.

With Elon leading 11-5 in the last of the seventh, Kinsella belted his second homer of the day.  He earned the first multi-homer game of his career with a two-run shot to left that also gave him a personal-best seven RBI in the game.

The maroon and gold would add one more run in the eighth.

Kinsella finished the game 4-for-6 with seven RBI and four runs scored.  His performance moved him into 10th place on Elon's all-time homer chart with 28.  Kinsella now has 15 homers on the year.  King went 2-for-3 with two RBI while both Blaine Bower and Sebastian Gomez  scored three runs for the Phoenix.  

Dylan Clark battled through six innings to improve to 5-3 on the year.  The lefty allowed just two hits and one run while striking out four.

The loss went to Tanner Hawley (0-2) who was charged with seven runs on six hits in 3.1 innings as the Terrier starter.

Game Two

The second game of the doubleheader began the same way as the first as Wofford grabbed a quick 1-0 lead when Seth Neely singled home Demetrius Jennings.

Elon answered with two runs of its own in the last of the first.  Quinn Bower scored the tying run on a Gomez double to left.  Swim then tripled home Gomez to make it 2-1.

It remained a 2-1 game until the fifth when Wofford managed to score seven runs.  The inning began with a single to left-center from Matthew Ramsay.  A hit batter put runners at first and second before Clark Wise beat out a bunt for a single.  On the play, the throw was wild at first and allowed Ramsay to score and leaver runners on the corners.  After an attempted squeeze eliminated the runner at third, the Terriers pulled off a double steal before Alec Paradowski delivered two runs with a single through the left side to make it a 4-2 contest.  An infield single from Josh Hyman drove in the fifth run of the game and left runners on first and second.  Neely picked up his second RBI of the game with a single to right that left runners on the corners.  Wofford, who entered the weekend leading the nation in stolen bases, then had another successful double steal, this time with Neely taking second and Hyman scoring.  The Terriers would add two more runs in the inning - the first on a double from James Plaisted and the second on a steal of home.

The Phoenix tried to get back in it and scored one in the lat of the fifth when King doubled home Kinsella.  In the sixth, Danny Lynch led off with a single and headed to third on a Casey Jones double.  After a one-out walk loaded the bases, Gomez worked a four-pitch walk to pick up a RBI as the maroon and gold's deficit became 8-4.  Wofford would escape further damage as Will Stillman got a strike out and pop out to end the inning as the Phoenix stranded three of the 14 runners it would leave on base in the game.

Wofford pushed across three more in the seventh and Elon plated one in the eight to provide the rest of the scoring.

The win went to Jesse Morris (6-3) who allowed four runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings.

Spencer Medick (5-3) suffered the loss after being charged with nine runs (eight earned) on 11 hits in six innings.  He fanned five and did not walk a batter.

Elon and Wofford will play the rubber match of the series at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.  Following the game, Elon players and coaches will shave their heads to raise funds for The Vs. Cancer Foundation's efforts to battle childhood cancers.