TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Mar. 16) – The FAMU Baseball team took the first two games of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Southern Division series against Savannah State at Moore-Kittles Field Saturday.

@ FAMU (8-14, 3-2 MEAC South) completed Friday's suspended Game One Saturday afternoon, winning 8-6.

Resuming play in the bottom of the seventh with the Rattlers leading, 6-5, the visiting Tigers (2-9, 0-2 MEAC South)scored a run in the top of the eighth to tie the game, 6-6.

FAMU scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the lead at 8-6, on Malachi Mitchell's RBI single scoring Octavien Moyer, and Tucker Rayburn scoring from third on a passed ball.

FAMU closer Jeremiah McCollum came on to a pitch a scoreless ninth to slam the door on the Tigers for his fourth save of the year. Reliever Morgan Mendez (1-2) got the victory for the Rattlers.

The Rattlers finished Game One with 14 hits, paced by Brett Maxwell with three hits and an RBI, Willie McDaniel with two hits and two RBI, along with Seyjuan Lawrence and Octavien Moyer rapping out two hits.

@ In Game Two, FAMU starter Josh Hancock (3-2) went seven full innings, fanning five, while allowing two runs on just three hits. McCollum came on to pick up his fifth save, striking out one in the ninth, after spelling Pedro de los Rios, who allowed one run on two hits in one-and-two-thirds innings.

FAMU broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run fifth for a 3-1 lead, then pulled away with a three-run sixth for a 6-1 edge.

Octavien Moyer had two hits and an RBI to pace the Rattlers, which also a hit and an RBI from Lawrence, Tucker Rayburn, Kaycee Reese, and Ryan Coscarella.

WHAT'S ONE DECK: FAMU will close their three-game weekend series against Savannah State Sunday at 12:30 p.m.