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COLUMBUS – Clinching a series victory, the Columbus State University baseball team rolled past Lynn with a 14-4 win on Saturday. The nonconference game was played at Burger King Stadium at Ragsdale Field.
 
Perez Knowles (1-0) tallied his first victory of the season, going seven innings with a career-high 12 strikeouts.
 
"We're playing good baseball right now," head coach Greg Appleton said. "We've done a great job the last two days of answering back after they scored first and our pitchers have done well on the mound."
 
Lynn (5-4) scored in the opening inning for the second straight day, getting a two-run homer to start Saturday's contest.
 
Columbus State (6-1) found its answer in the second inning. With two on and two out, Drew Webb tripled off the right-centerfield wall to bring both runs home and tie the game up. Robert Brooks then followed with a two-run opposite field shot for his first collegiate home run.
 
The Cougars weren't done though, as Justin Evans went back-to-back with Brooks, crushing a long homer into the right-centerfield netting to make it a 5-2 game.
 
CSU pushed two more runs across on groundouts in the fourth as Knowles settled in on the mound. The senior tossed up three scoreless frames before allowing his final run of the day in the fifth.
 
The Cougars packed on the scoring in the bottom half of the fifth, getting RBI knocks from Grant Berry and Austin Pharr. Brooks added another RBI by wearing a pitch with the bases loaded and another came home on a double play ball.
 
Evans capped off his strong day with a RBI double in the seventh, and CSU wrapped up its scoring with two more runs in the eighth.
 
All nine Cougar starters picked up at least one hit on the day as the Cougars pounded out 13. Brooks drove in four runs out of the nine spot in the order.
 
Columbus State and Lynn will wrap up the series on Sunday with a 12:00 p.m. first pitch.