ATLANTA – Will Arnold provided the go-ahead RBI and run with a solo homer in the seventh inning, and Oglethorpe's baseball team topped Piedmont 5-3 Thursday night at Hermance Stadium. Oglethorpe overcame a 2-0 first-inning deficit to avenge a 5-3 loss to Piedmont earlier this season and even the season series at a game apiece.

Arnold's go-ahead blast was his second of the season and came on a 3-2 pitch with one out. The score was tied at 3-3 after the Stormy Petrels also rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the fifth inning. In fact, Oglethorpe plated runs in every inning beginning in the fourth to come away with the win.

Mason Pearcy scored Carson Weir on a groundout in the fourth; Connor Ledet hit a solo home run in the fifth; Weir scored again on an error in the sixth; Arnold homered in the seventh; and Pearcy scored on a wild pitch in the eighth.

Oglethorpe also escaped a jam in the top of the ninth as the Lions, trailing 5-3, put the first two runners on and bunted them over for a second-and-third, one-out situation. That's when Will Marconi struck out two of the next three hitters to end the game with the tying run on second and go-ahead run on first.

The save was Marconi's first of the season while Grant Guinther, who pitched two scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh, picked up the win to improve to 3-1.

Noah Cole made the start on the hill and went four innings with only two runs scored, coincidentally two of the first three batters he faced. After that, Cole settled in to strike out three in three-plus scoreless innings.

At the plate, Arnold and Weir both tallied multiple hits. Arnold went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run. Weir went 2-for-3 with two runs.

Oglethorpe next faces nearby Emory Saturday and Sunday in a three-game nonconference set. The teams will play two on Saturday at Emory before wrapping up the series with a single game Sunday back here at Hermance Stadium.