WISE - - Visiting Lenoir-Rhyne hit seven homers en route to a 12-5 South Atlantic Conference baseball victory over UVA Wise at Stallard Field Saturday. Cole Stanford and Wade Cuda hit two home runs each to pace the offensive attack for the Bears.

LR (27-8, 10-3 SAC) got on the board first when a UVA Wise (13-21, 3-10 SAC) miscue allowed Mason Maxwell to scamper home in the top of the second.

Brandon Costa's team tied the game in the home half of the inning when Hunter Meador delivered his fifth roundtriper of the season, a solo shot.

The score remain unchanged until the fifth when the Bears went back on top with a run-scoring double off the bat of Blake Bean.

Again, the Cavaliers countered in the bottom portion of the inning. This time, DJ Dickson tied the game with a RBI single that plated Nick Badgett. Later in the inning, Dickson came home with the go-ahead run when D'Sean Prinkleton lifted a sacrifice fly to right field.

The first of Stanford's two homers tied the game in the sixth inning before LR went ahead for good in the seventh.

Cuda put the Bears on top with a solo shot before Zach Evans lifted a two-run dinger over the center field wall to put the visitors in front 6-3.

The nation's RBI leader Cole Harness cut the deficit to one in the seventh when his two-run single plated Prinkleton and Dickson. Harness now has 53 RBI on the season, 11 shy of Brad Robbins' single-season record of 64 set in 2009.

While the Cavs would get within one, it would be a missed opportunity for the team. Matt Frye would follow Harness' hit with a base hit to put two on with nobody out. The momentum would be cut as Mike Allen would retire Meador and then get Justin Reed to bounce into an inning ending double play to end the threat.

It would be one of many missed opportunities for UVA Wise. The Cavs stranded nine in the game and at least one in each of the game's first eight innings.

LR would use the long ball to put the game out of reach over the game's final two innings.

Stanford, Cuda and Bean would hit solo shots while Cameron Nelson had a two-run homer as the team's late offense allowed the Bears to claim the 12-5 win.

Bean, Stanford and Cuda had three hits each to lead a 15-hit effort for LR while Badgett and Dickson had two hits each in defeat.

Josh Lanham earned the mound win (5-2) by tossing five innings, allowing three runs (two earned), striking out five and allowing four hits over his 95-pitch performance.

Clayton Lanser was a tough luck loser (0-4). Lanser had the longest start by a Cavalier hurler this spring by going six innings, allowing three earned runs, striking out a hitter and walking a man.

The series concludes tomorrow with a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.