JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Georgia Southern's baseball team staved off a two-out rally in the ninth inning to pick up a 7-6 victory over the Jacksonville Dolphins on Wednesday night at Sessions Stadium.
    GSU senior Eric Phillips produced his 300th career hit in the process and helped the Eagles extend their winning streak to seven games with an RBI in the fifth inning.
    Phillips entered the game three hits shy of becoming the fifth Eagle to tally 300 career hits. He picked up the three he needed with three singles. Phillips singled in his first two at-bats in the first and third innings before using his 300th hit to drive in a two-out run in the fifth inning. The senior co-captain joined Alan Balcomb, Greg Dowling, Tod Greene and Scott Henley in the Eagles' 300-hit club.
    GSU (20-15) rallied from an early two-run deficit to tie the game at 3 on Stryker Brown's leadoff home run in the sixth inning. A throwing error by JU third baseman Chris Moye allowed GSU's Tyler Avera to reach base two batters later and extend the inning for Scooter Williams' two-out homer. The second homer of the junior's career plated Avera and Hunter Thomas, who reached on fielder's choice for the second out of the inning, to put the Eagles up, 6-3.
    Jacksonville (12-22) made things interesting in the ninth inning after scoring three two-out runs on a double, triple and homer. GSU's Jarret Leverett started the inning with a four-run lead and got two quick outs with a strikeout and a ground ball to second base before Zachary Houck started the rally with a double. Jonathan Murphy tripled in the first run of the inning and scored on a homer by Dan Gulbransen. With the Dolphins trailing by just one run, Kyle Rowe (S, 4) took over for Leverett on the mound and got out of the jam with a strikeout of Matt Frank.
    The second save this week by Rowe gave Taylor Burke (1-0) his first career victory in his second year in the program. Burke faced just one batter in Gulbransen and coaxed a fly-out to end the fifth inning. JU's Wes Torrez (0-2) took the loss after giving up four runs — one earned — in the sixth inning.
    Jacksonville held a lead until the sixth inning and opened the game with a pair of runs in the first inning. Houck drew a leadoff walk and quickly moved into scoring position with a stolen base. Murphy followed with a double to right field to plate the runner from second base, and scored the second run of the game on an errant throw during his stolen-base attempt of third base.
    The teams traded a run in the third inning and the Dolphins remained ahead, 3-1, on an RBI ground out by Murphy. Houck reached base for a second straight at-bat to lead off the inning, this time with a bunt double down the third base line, and moved to third on a passed ball before Murphy grounded out to shortstop.
    GSU got its first run in a similar fashion in the top half of the third inning. Williams opened the frame with a double and scored from third on Chase Griffin's ground out to shortstop.
    Griffin moved the Eagles ahead by four runs and scored the winning run in the seventh. The freshman catcher connected on a long fly ball that bounced off the top of the center-field wall for a solo homer, his ninth this season and fourth in his last 10 games.
    GSU will play Appalachian State, the Southern Conference's top team, this weekend at J.I. Clements Stadium. The series starts at 6 p.m. Friday.