DAVIDSON, S.C. - The baseball team scored six runs in the six inning to turn a 5-1 deficit into a 10-7 win over Davidson and a 2-1 start to the 2008 season. The Purple Eagles had double-digit runs and hits and each starter recorded one hit for the third time in three tries this season.

Senior Tim Alberts (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) went 5-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs scored. The left fielder started the day off with a solo home run, and followed with a pair of doubles and two singles, including a three-run double in the pivotal sixth inning. As Alberts stepped to the plate in the ninth inning, looking for a 6-for-6 afternoon, the senior was hit by a pitch.

Frank Kurnik (Reno, Nev.), Chris Leendertse (Ancaster, Ont.), Harrison Harber (Kanata, Ont.) and Jonathan Smith (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) each had a multiple-hit day, as Kurnik has three hits, including a sixth-inning double.

Sophomore Marcus Spaulding (Copenhagen, N.Y.) pitched sixth solid innings, and overcame a five-run fifth inning to earn the win, his first of the season. Mark Sikorski (Buffalo, N.Y.) pitched the final 2.1 innings to earn the save.

"Marcus did a solid job overcoming the fifth inning to give us six solid innings on the mound," head coach Chris Chernisky said. "Our offense did a great job to make their pitchers earn everything."

The Purple Eagles ripped four doubles and totaled six hits in the sixth inning. Alberts' double down the left-field line while the bases were loaded cleared the bases and gave Niagara a lead it would not relinquish.

The Purple Eagles will play a twinbill at Coppin State on the way back to Monteagle Ridge on Monday. First pitch of game one is slated for 1 p.m.