WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The USCB baseball team stunned top-seeded Southeastern on Thursday, 10-6, to open the Sun Conference Tournament at FITTEAM Ballpark in West Palm Beach.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Brian Meyer - 3-for-4, solo home run, three runs

Marino Sorbara - 2-for-3, two singles, two runs

Kyran Russ - 1-for-3, two RBIs, one run

Clint Sellers - 2-for-5, double, one RBI, one run

Leandy Castro - 2-for-6, two singles, one RBI

Nick Milhan and Daniel Searles - one single and one RBI each

Donavan Huneck - 2.1 innings, win, no hits, no runs, one strikeout

Payton MacPherson - one inning, no runs, no hits, no walks

Tucker Perry - one inning, no runs, no hits, no walks, one strikeout

HOW IT HAPPENED

Southeastern opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with a solo run, and the Fire doubled their lead in the home half of the second with a lone run.

The Sand Sharks answered with a three-run third inning to take the 3-2 lead. Tavaris Terrell walked to lead off the inning, and Sorbara and Sellers connected with back-to-back hits to make it a 2-1 game. Castro cracked a RBI groundout to tie the game, and Russ poked a RBI sacrifice fly to take the one-run lead.

One inning later, Sorbara started a two-out rally with a walk. Sellers reached on a fielding error to put two Sand Sharks on base. Castro connected with an infield single, which forced the bases loaded. Russ smacked another infield single, which made the contest 4-2. 

To end its five unanswered run stretch, Searles tallied a RBI single to push the lead to three, 5-2.

In the home half of the fifth, SEU plated four runs off four hits to take the one-run lead, 6-5. 

To answer, the Sand Sharks put up a crooked number of their own - four runs - to pull ahead by three, 9-6. Russ walked, and after an out, Meyer connected a single to right to put a runner in scoring position. Milhan jumped in on the action with a run-scoring single, and Searles forced the bases loaded with a five-pitch walk. After a pitching change, Terrell poked a sacrifice fly, and to end the four-run frame, Sorbara smacked an infield single to score two of his teammate - Wesley Ambrose and Milhan. The runs made the contest 9-6. 

Southeastern put a runner on base in both the sixth and seventh innings, but USCB kept both Fire players from touching home. 

To lead off the eighth frame, Meyer smacked a solo blast into the Sand Shark bullpen to make it a four-run game, 10-6. The solo blast was his fourth of the 2021 campaign. 

Huneck was stellar in his 2.1 innings of work, as he didn't allow a hit. MacPherson came on to pitch the eighth, and he worked quickly through the SEU lineup, as he only faced four batters.

After a lightning delay that suspended play in the top of the ninth, USCB and SEU went into a four-plus hour delay with four outs remaining in the game.

After the delay and being held scoreless in the top of the ninth, Perry came out of the bullpen to close out the game. He did just that by facing four Fire players and without allowing a hit. The scoreless inning lifted USCB to victory, 10-6, to knock off top-seeded Southeastern and advanced the Sand Sharks in the postseason tournament. 

TEAM RECORD UPDATES

No. 6 USCB - 29-19 overall

No. 1 Southeastern - 42-7 overall

WHAT'S NEXT?

USCB advances into the winner's bracket and will next play on Friday, May 7, and it will face the winner of game three - Webber and Keiser. First pitch of USCB's game is set for 4 p.m. in West Palm Beach.