Wesley Wade's three-run homer broke a 9-9 tie and gave the Vikings the lead for good as Berry defeated the University of the South in game one of a baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon, 18-12, in Sewanee, Tenn. In the second game, Sewanee earned a 5-4 victory.

Game One: Berry 18, Sewanee 12
The Vikings scored two in the first, but Sewanee answered back with five to take the lead. After Sewanee scored a run in the second to make it 6-2, Berry came back with seven in the fifth to take the lead. The first seven batters in the inning reached for Berry, with RBI hits from Garrett Lang, Nick Brunswick, John D'Amelio, and Wade and a two-RBI single by Wesley Maxey. With two out, Zachary Hardee would deliver the final RBI single of the inning to give Berry a 9-6 lead.

After Sewanee tied the game in the bottom of the inning, the Vikings finally took the lead for good in the sixth. With two men on and one out, Wade drilled a three-run blast over the fence in right-center to give the Vikings a 12-9 lead. Sewanee would get a run across in the bottom of the inning, but would get no closer. In the eighth, Berry scored six to seal the deal. With two men in scoring position, Maxey closed his four-RBI game with a single to center to make it 13-10. Joey Garcia's sacrifice fly one batter later stretched the lead to four, and then with two out, the Vikings took full advantage of a Tigers error. A throwing error scored Maxey and allowed the inning to continue. Hardee tripled home a run to make it 16-10, then RBI singles by Lang and John Poist made it 18-10.

Tyler Cassidy would pick up the rare four-inning save, allowing two runs on four hits to earn his third save of the year. Patrick O'Rourke improved to 4-1 on the year with five innings of work on the mound in the start for Berry.

Game Two: Sewanee 5, Berry 4
The Tigers would earn their third win in 27 meetings all-time against the Vikings with the victory in the seven-inning game of the doublehehader.

Berry (10-16, 5-6 SAA) matched the first inning of game one with two runs in the visiting half of the first. D'Amelio's groundout scored Poist with the first run, while Wade's double plated Brunswick for a 2-0 advantage.

Sewanee (13-13-1, 1-10 SAA) used a double steal on a strikeout to score its first run of the game in the second. In the third, the Tigers pieced together a four-run frame to take a 5-2 lead over BC.

The Vikings rallied back in the fourth as Lang's two-run single scored Hardee and Maxey to cut the lead to one. Berry could get no closer, though, as a double play erased a threat in the sixth and Berry went in order in the seventh.

The two teams will wrap up the series Sunday in Sewanee, Tenn.