EMERSON, Ga.—Cumberland bats in mid-season form with five homers on opening day to blow out St. Andrews, 18-5. 

Cumberland (1-0) posted 18 runs on 13 hits on eight extra-base hits. 

Santrel Farmer went 3-for-3 reaching base six times with a homer, a triple, four stolen bases, and three runs scored. Cole Turney went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBI. Juan Moreno and Reid Bass both posted two hits and two RBI. 

First pitch of the season, Boxer hit a rope over the fence and Cumberland never looked back. The Phoenix would tack on five runs in the first inning as the St. Andrews starter struggled with command, walking in a run, one run scoring on a passed ball, and then Reid Bass roped a two-RBI single to push it to 5-0 after the first. 

In the second, Hughes jacked his first home run of the season.

Cumberland tacked on another run in the third as Drew Dalton hit a one-out doubled and scored on a Turney single. 

In the bottom half, Muzzi lost his command, walking in two runs on five walks in the inning. 

The Phoenix would get one of those runs back in the fourth as Farmer was drilled by a pitch, swiped second and third before scoring on a wild pitch.

Kaleb Vaughn took the mound in the fourth for Muzzi after he walked the leadoff hitter. Back-to-back singles and then a walk gave the St. Andrews another run drawing it to 8-3 after four. 

Farmer led the sixth off with a solo homer and the Knights answered with two runs in the bottom half to cut it to 9-5, but that would be the final two runs for the Knights as Cumberland would score nine unanswered runs from that point on. 

Second baseman Juan Moreno drew a bases loaded walk for a run and Dee Triplett scored on a wild pitch in the seventh. 

In the eighth, Turney blasted a moon-shot to center for a two run bomb and in the ninth CU would put up five more runs highlighted by a three run homer from Triplett for the 18-5 final.