In game two of the series against Mercer, Auburn baseball won 4-1 with Keegan Thompson improving to 3-0 on the mound.
Thompson threw seven shutout innings on 77 pitches and only allowed two hits on the day.
Auburn's first two runs came in the bottom of the fourth.
Ryan Tella reached first base on an error and then Dan Glevenyak singled to advance Tella to second. The second error of the inning for Mercer, a throwing error on Jordan Ebert's grounder, brought Tella home for Auburn's first run. Daniel Robert then hit an RBI on a groundout, which scored Glevenyak to make it 2-0.
Auburn's third and fourth runs came two innings later in the bottom of the sixth.
With two outs Auburn had the bases-loaded because of a throwing error and two walks. Then Anfernee Grier drove in Glevenyak and Blake Logan with a single to right field to take the 4-0 lead.
Trey Cochran-Gill replaced Thompson in the eighth inning and delivered with a 1-2-3 inning.
Terrance Dedrick came on to close the game out in the ninth but allowed three singles to the first three batters that he faced.
A groundout for the first out of the inning brought Mercer's first run home on a call at the plate that head coach Sunny Golloway argued and was thrown out of the game for. A passed ball then occurred in the next at-bat but Blake Austin was able to get the ball fast enough and throw it to Dedrick to tag the second out at home plate. Dedrick got the last out of the inning on a groundout back to him to end the game.
Auburn looks to go for the sweep tomorrow in game three of the series at 1 p.m. at Plainsman Park.
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