ATHENS, GA – Senior outfielder Tyler Kaiser (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) went 2-for-5 with three RBIs to lead the Rider University baseball team past host Georgia, 8-3, on Saturday afternoon at Foley Field. The Broncs (5-5) have won back-to-back games to open the series against the Bulldogs (6-9).

Rider scored all eight of its runs over the first three innings and junior lefty Nick Margevicius (Roylaton, OH/Saint Ignatius) was stellar on the mound as the Broncs won for the fifth time in the past six games. Margevicius worked seven innings and fanned three hitters, while scattering five hits and surrendering three earned runs to improve to 2-0 on the season.

The Broncs got off to a quick start once again versus Georgia, plating five runs on five hits in the first inning. During the opening frame Riley Mihalik (Churchville, PA/Chestnut Hill Academy) and Mike Volaski (Oxnard, CA/Ventura CC/Oxnard) both had RBI singles, while Kaiser added a double that plated two runs. Rider also added another run on a Bulldog error.

In the second, Rider added an insurance run thanks to a run-scoring single to right field by Kaiser. The Broncs capped their scoring on the day courtesy of an RBI double by freshman leadoff hitter Kyle Johnson (Jackson, NJ/Jackson Memorial) and another run came across on a Georgia error.

NOTES & QUOTES

“We got off to a good start again,” Rider Head Coach Barry Davis said. “We are swinging the bat well right now. Again, we got solid innings from our bullpen and we played good defense. Nick was solid on the mound for us and gave us seven strong innings.”

- Johnson led off the game with a hit for the third straight game and the fourth time this season. 

- Rider has scored 11 runs in the first inning in the series.

- In relief, Dylan Simcik worked a perfect eighth inning with a strikeout for Rider.

- Andrew Tumbelty closed it out for the Broncs, working a hitless ninth inning to go along with a strikeout. In 3.2 innings of work this season, Tumbelty has not allowed an earned run.

BRONCS BY THE NUMBERS

- Entering the series, Rider had been outscored, 9-3, in the first inning. Through two games they've plated 11 runs compared to zero for Georgia. 

- Volaski is 2-for-2 with 3 RBIs in the first inning of the last two games. Johnson is 3-for-4 with a triple, a double two runs scored and two RBIs in the first inning against Georgia this series. 

- Rider has recorded 10 or more hits in back-to-back games.

- Georgia committed eight errors on Saturday and has committed 10 errors in the series.

ON DECK

Rider and Georgia wrap up a three-game set on Sunday, March 12, with an afternoon matinee that is slated to get underway at 1:00 pm.