ROME, Ga. – Berry College needed one win on Sunday to advance to next weekend's championship series, but Rhodes College captured two games from BC to upset the Vikingss' plans. Game scores were 7-5 and 12-2.

Berry dropped to 29-15 for the season. RC improved to 32-13 and will play an SAA three-game series at Birmingham-Southern this weekend.

In game one, the teams combined for 27 hits (15 by the Lynx), but no team scored more than two runs in any inning.  RC tallied the eventual decisive runs in the seventh inning before Berry plated the game's last two scores in the bottom half.

Zach Farmer went 2-2 with a double, two runs, two walks and two RBI. Alex McGill, Doug Heath, Sam Joyce and Grant Perkins all collected two hits for the home team.

RC hurler Daniel Morris (7-4) started and earned the win. He scattered 11 hits and gave up five runs (four earned). Blake Glauben closed the game in the ninth and earned his third save of the season.

TJ Montgomery (4-5) started for the Vikings and took the loss.  Zach Dutton pitched one inning and Braxton Teal the final 2 2/3 to end the game for BC.

The Vikings left seven runners on base and Rhodes turned three double plays in the contest to squelch several Viking rallies.

The second game was suspended when the score was 3-1 in the third inning due to thunderstorms. After a four hour delay, Rhodes returned with especially hot bats. They pushed the lead to 12-1 after tallying three in the fourth and then six in the fifth frame.

Rhodes knocked 17 hits in the contest to Berry's eight. The Vikes committed a season-high five errors and allowed six unearned runs.

The highlight of the game for the Vikings was the play Stephen Gaylor (4-4, 2 runs, 4 stolen bases). A Berry benchmark occurred in the first inning when Gaylor singled and stole second base--earning his 86^thcareer stolen base. He broke Cory Pitts' previous mark of 85. The senior then stole third base and--after the catcher's errant throw--trotted him with Berry's first run.

Gaylor, however, wasn't done on the base paths. He singled and took second base (his 87^th steal) in the sixth inning. The centerfielder then later scored after Dusty Tyson's base hit. Gaylor nabbed number 89 in the eighth inning.

In the top of the ninth inning seniors Gaylor, TC Boyd and Doug Heath were all replaced from the lineup and received recognition in their last game at William R. Bowdoin Field.