After scoring 35 runs in Saturday's doubleheader sweep, nationally 20th-ranked Mount Olive was limited to a pair of runs Sunday as the Trojans fell to national vote-getter Belmont Abbey 5-2 in the final game of a three-game Conference Carolinas baseball series at Scarborough Field. Jermaine Berry hit the game's only home run Sunday after the two teams combined for 14 homers in Saturday's twinbill.

Mount Olive (7-5, 2-1 Conference Carolinas) cut a 2-0 deficit in half when Berry lined a 3-2 pitch over the left field fence with two outs in the bottom of the second for the Trojans first hit of the game. Berry had two of the Trojans' six hits.

Belmont Abbey (12-6, 4-2) extended its lead to 3-1 in the top of the fourth when Joey Frabisile singled and eventually scored on Ian Vazquez's two-out single.  Mount Olive answered with a run in the bottom of the fourth on Jacob Rogers' line drive to the warning track, which would have been a three-run homer with Saturday's winds but was a 360-foot sacrifice fly in Sunday's game.

Mount Olive had runners on first and second with one out in the bottom of the fifth after a walk to Antonio Callaway and a single by leadoff batter Matt Patrone. Belmont Abbey reliever Nate Cudney (2-0) took over for starter Gabe Wallmeyer and retired the next two batters on short fly balls to right. Cudney allowed only two baserunners over the final four innings and got a double play ball in the seventh.

Belmont Abbey, the 38th-highest vote-getter in this week's Collegiate Baseball Top 30 Poll, took a lead it would never relinquish with two runs in the second inning. Emilio Pagan, who had three hits, scored from third on a double steal for the game's first run. John Cuchiarella added a run-scoring single. The Crusaders scored single runs in the eighth and ninth innings.

Trojan starter Zach Smith (1-2) recorded four strikeouts and allowed three runs in four innings. Skyler Sopotnick tossed two scoreless innings before giving way to Josh Frederick in the top of the seventh with none out and a runner on first. Frederick got a first-pitch double play ball and a strikeout to end the inning. Matt Dillon pitched the final 1 2/3 innings.

Mount Olive is off for spring break until this weekend when the Trojans travel to Wilson, N.C., to take on Barton in a three-game Conference Carolinas series. The two teams play a single game Friday at 2 p.m. and complete the series with a doubleheader Saturday at noon.