AUGUSTA, Ga. – The 2014 Jaguar Baseball team dropped the season-opening doubleheader 6-1, 4-3 to the Carson-Newman Eagles Saturday afternoon in non-conference action at Lake Olmstead Stadium.

GRU (0-2) senior-lefty Kip Custer earned the start for opening day, coasting through four innings before the Eagles' Evan Jurjevic doubled to left center and scored on a sacrifice fly from Bryan Everhart for a 1-0 lead in the fifth.

Freshman-righty Tyler Brown relieved Custer in the top of the sixth to walk two and give up a single to load the bases. Two GRU shortstop errors and a single put the Eagles ahead 5-0. GRU got one back in the bottom of the sixth when Ross Miles scored on a passed ball after he lead off the inning with a single.

Jags freshman Trey McAvoy pitched 1.0 innings to give up a lone homer for a final 6-1 Carson-Newman (2-0) victory in game one. Custer took the loss in 5.1 innings of work. The senior struck out three with no walks while allowing five hits for one earned run. Brown tossed 2.2 innings to give up five hits for four unearned runs.

Seniors Jeff Rice (1-for-4) and Ross Miles (1-for-3) had the only two hits for GRU in game one, with Miles scoring the only run. Cody Fox and Joe Tipton paced the Eagles bats with 2-for-5 days, while Gooch Greer went 2-for-4.

Quinton Yocum earned the win for C-N in 5.1 innings of work where he struck out three and gave up two hits for one run.

In game two, GRU's David Bermudez gave up two runs in the first inning off a Cody Fox double that scored Bo Ausmus. Fox scored on a wild pitch for a 2-0 early lead. The Jags got on the board with Jeff Rice's double to deep center that scored Tyler Roberts in the third. Rice scored from second on an Eagles error to tie the game at 2-all, but Brett Hagenow's RBI triple in the fourth kept C-N ahead 3-2.

Hagenow got another RBI with a single in the fourth to plate Fox. Ross Miles walked to lead off the Jags' seventh and a Tyler Roberts single and JD Sabo bunt for base hit loaded the bases. Jeff Rice got a run back with a sacrifice fly, but a pop-fly to first base gave the Eagles the doubleheader sweep.

Bermudez got the loss for GRU in 4.0 innings, giving up four hits for three runs and walking one with a lone strikeout. Will Robertson came in to toss 3.0 innings, allowing two hits for a run while striking out one. C-N's Vince Apicella took the win in five innings of work, giving up six hits for two runs and dealing three strikeouts.

Rice, Ryan Khan, and Miles all went 2-for-3 for GRU, with Rice scoring a run with an RBI.

The Jaguars wrap up the series with the Eagles tomorrow, Feb. 2 for a 1:00 p.m. single game at LOS. The Jags will also celebrate "Terry Childers Appreciation Day", to honor former Augusta College coach Terry Childers in a pre-game ceremony. The Jags will wear "TC" patches on their jerseys for all home games and a presentation will take place prior to the first pitch of Sunday's game.