LEBANON, Tenn.--Cumberland baseball won two run-rule games 18-4 and 20-1 to trounce Shawnee State in the Mid-South Conference Opening Round. Cole Turney tied the single-season home run record by belting his 28th home run of the season. 

Cumberland (33-11-1) swung hot bats all day, blasting six home runs in the first game and adding one more in game two. Tyner Hughes picked up three home runs to reach 21 bombs on the season while Tim Holyk hit two in game one and Dee Triplett added a solo shot. 

Turney got the fireworks started for Cumberland in the bottom of the first with a solo shot to dead-center field. 

The Phoenix busted the game open in the second as CU brough 15 hitters to the plate before the Bears even recorded an out. Xavier Torres hit a bases-clearing double for three runs. Juan Moreno roped a single through the left side to add another. After an errant pickoff throw from the catcher Santrel Farmer trotted home. Ian Krump roped an RBI-double to right-center to plate a run. Hughes hit his first home run of the day with a line-shot to left. Three batters later, Holyk hit a three-run jack to left-center and Krump singled home Torres for the final run of the inning and 14-0 lead. 

Cumberland scored 13 runs on 13 hits in the inning. 

After a three-run homer by the Bears, Triplett hit a home run to right field and Holyk blasted his second of the game to right-center. Both were solo shots for a 16-3 lead. 

Hughes hit a solo shot in the fourth for the final run of the game for Cumberland. Shawnee State would pick up a run in the seventh for the 18-4 final. 

Mitch Rogers went six strong for the win on the mound. He allowed four hits, three runs and struck out seven. 

Cumberland started the scoring in the first in game two. Triplett hit a two-RBI double down the right field line. Holyk singled home a run and Farmer was drilled by a pitch with the bases juiced for a 4-0 lead after the first. 

After a scoreless second and third, Tyler Lund scored on a wild pitch for the Bears to make it 4-1. The Phoenix answered with seven runs in the bottom half of the inning. Turney drove in a run with a single to right, Hughes was hit by a pitch and Triplett drew a walk each to score a run. Holyk hit a two-RBI single to center, Farmer added an RBI-fielder's choice, and Moreno singled to right to score Holyk for an 11-1 score. 

In the fifth, Drew Dalton drilled a single to right to score courtesy runner Dylan Forbes for a 12-1 lead.

The Phoenix posted eight runs in the sixth all with two outs. Hughes belted his third home run of the day with a three-run, line drive homer to get it started. After the Phoenix loaded the bases, Torres singled home pinch-runner Jacob Dukart. Pinch-hitter Reid Bass hit an RBI-single to left, and pinch-hitter Dylan Forbes roped a bases-clearing triple to right-center for the 20-1 final. 

Trevor Muzzi moved to 6-0 after picking up the win on the hill. Muzzi went four innings giving five hits and one unearned run. Ethan Torres threw the final three frames of two-hit scoreless baseball. 

With the series win, Cumberland advances to the Mid-South Conference Championship double-elimination bracket in Bowling Green. The tournament is set to start on Thursday, May 4.