Jake Moser allowed only one earned run and four hits through seven innings and Mount Olive's offense built an 11-run lead as the nationally top-ranked Trojans posted a 13-8 victory over Wingate in game one of a non-conference baseball doubleheader Saturday at Wingate, N.C. Antonio Callaway, Geno Escalante and Mike Mercurio paced the Trojan offense with two runs batted in apiece.

The Trojans suffered their first loss of the season in the nightcap as a walk-off rbi-single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh gave Wingate a 6-5 victory. Nick Gaeta drove in three runs for the Trojans.

Mount Olive (4-1) used a five-run first inning and a four-run third inning to jump out to a 9-1 lead. Mercurio hit a two-run double in the third and was one of six Trojans to drive in at least one run in the first three innings.

Moser (2-0) struck out six and walked only one in his second start. A Trojan error to lead off the bottom of the second led to an unearned run for Wingate (5-1), which received votes in this week's Collegiate Baseball Top 30 Poll. Jason Hunter hit a solo home run in the fifth for the Bulldogs. Moser was aided by double plays in the second and third innings.

A pair of Wingate errors led to a run in the top of the eighth to extend Mount Olive's lead to 13-2. The Bulldogs rallied for six runs in the bottom of the ninth before Skyler Sopotnick came in with two on and two out and got a comebacker to the mound to end the game.

In the nightcap, Gaeta's three-run double in the top of the fifth broke a 2-2 tie and gave Mount Olive a 5-2 lead. Trojan starter Zach Smith held Wingate to two runs on just one hit in five innings, but also issued seven walks.

After Wingate scored a run in the bottom of the sixth to pull within 5-3, Trojan relief pitcher Talton Cherry (0-1) sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around a single and a walk to put Mount Olive an out away from the doubleheader sweep. Will Sapp's single pulled Wingate within a run and the Bulldogs tied the game on a Trojan infield throwing error. Sapp scored the winning run on Thomas Spitz's rbi-single through the right side.

The doubleheader turned into a marathon as both games went more than three hours.

The two teams conclude their three-game series Sunday at 1 p.m.