FRANKLIN, Ind. — The numbers are starting the add up for the Earlham College baseball team.

Earlham split a doubleheader on Saturday at Franklin College, which allowed the Quakers the claim series.

Franklin took the opener 5-2 before the Quakers bounced back with a 3-1 decision in the second game.

The victory puts the Quakers at 20-6 overall and they remain in first place in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference at 10-5.

With the win in the second contest, Earlham Head Coach Steve Sakosits is now at the top of the all-time list for victories with 81 as he passed Tom Parkevich.

The total victories for the Quakers mark the fifth 20-win season in school history. With 13 games remaining in the regular season, the Quakers ensured that they will have a second straight winning year, which hasn't been done since 1970-71.

The highest win total was in 1970 when the Quakers were 26-7. The 1971 team was 24-12-1, while in 1969 the Quakers were 21-10. Last year, Earlham was 21-18.

Earlham starting pitcher Matt Brankle (3-3) went the distance to lead the Quakers in the second game. He surrendered eight hits and allowed a run in the ninth to go with nine strikeouts. Earlham's all-time leader in strikeouts, Brankle has 221 in his career.  

Devin Spurgon knocked in the first run for the Quakers with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning.

In the sixth, Josh Parr put the Quakers in front 3-0 with a two-run single. Parr led the Quakers with two hits.

Game One

The Grizzlies led 1-0 after a run in the fourth, but Earlham's Cody Krumlauf answered as he blasted his first collegiate home run in the fifth to tie the game at 1-1.

Franklin scored twice in the sixth and added two more in the seventh to take the lead for good.

A RBI single by Nate Lynch finished the scoring for Earlham in the eighth.

Nate Hube (2-2) got the loss for the Quakers after leaving the game with two outs in the seventh. Garrett York followed with an inning and Matt Mathies recorded the final out.

Earlham returns to action on Tuesday against Mount St. Joseph University at 6 p.m. Due to a previous schedule change with the Lions, this HCAC game was moved to Midland Field in Ameila, Ohio.