LEBANON, Tenn.--Cumberland baseball posted eight runs in the seventh inning to take a commanding lead before posting a 12-2 10-run rule victory in the eighth to take game one over Bethel. 

Reid Madariaga (5-1) tossed another gem to get the win going seven innings strong allowing just five hits and two runs. Madariaga struck out seven batters while walking just one. 

Cole Turney, Tyner Hughes, and Chewy Sanders each collected three hits to lead the offensive efforts. Turney went 3-for-3 with his nation's leading 18th home run. Sanders bopped his fourth homer of the season while going 3-for-4 with five RBI. Hughes went 3-for-5 with a triple in the second. 

Turney got the scoring started with a solo shot to dead centerfield in the first for an early 1-0 lead. 

Bethel fought back in the fourth inning when Aiden Morris singled to left field scoring pinch runner Zayden McCaslin and tying the game at 1-1. However, Cumberland answered in the bottom of the fourth inning when Sanders roped a two-out doubled off the left field wall scoring two and giving Cumberland a 3-1 lead.

Bethel tried to mount a comeback in the top of the seventh inning when Noah Hawkins doubled to right center, scoring JT Morgan, but on the same play a well-executed relay from Sanders to Juan Moreno to Trenton Duchsherer at the dish cut down the tying run keeping the game at 3-2. 

In the bottom half, Cumberland exploded for eight runs to take control of the game. The first run came in on a bases loaded hit by pitch to Turney. Dee Triplett then rifled a single to center field to add another run and end starter Tyler Proctor's outing. Hughes welcomed the new pitcher with an RBI single through the left side, extending Cumberland's lead to 6-2. The next batter, Tim Holyk then hit a double to right center, scoring two more before Sanders topped the inning with a three run opposite field homer to make it 11-2. 

The Phoenix added the game winning run in the eighth on an RBI single from Hughes for the 12-2 run rule win. 

Tyler Proctor was handed the loss for the Wildcats after throwing well until the seventh. Proctor gave up eight runs on nine hits through 6.1 innings of work.

Cumberland and Bethel will close out the series tomorrow with a doubleheader starting at 11:00 a.m. at Woody Hunt Stadium.