GREENVILLE, S.C. --  Sky Overton stroked a one-out single to center field in bottom of the 10th inning to score Jake Jones from third base and give Furman a 10-9 victory over East Tennessee State in Southern Conference baseball action Saturday afternoon at Latham Stadium.

With the win, Furman (22-24, 9-8 SoCon), which clinched its third consecutive league series win, will go for the series sweep against ETSU (17-29, 5-12 SoCon) in Sunday's 1:00 p.m. finale.

Overton, a sophomore outfielder who delivered a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the fifth inning and belted a game-tying home run in the sixth, came to the plate in the 10th after Jones tripled into the right-center field gap with one out.  Facing a drawn-in infield, he lined the first pitch he saw from Buccaneer reliever Logan Gentry into center field for the game winner, completing a 2-for-3, three-RBI performance that included his first career home run.

Overton's heroics highlighted the comeback win for Furman, which trailed 8-2 in the fifth inning before rallying on the strength of a five-run fifth. His two-out long ball in the sixth tied it at 8-8.

East Tennessee blunted Furman's surge with a run in the eighth on a Trey York RBI triple that scored Chris Cook to give the Bucs a 9-8 lead.  ETSU appeared ready to close out the Paladins, but a fielding error in the ninth inning put runners at first and third, leading to a Cameron Whitehead game tying sacrifice that drove home Kyle Simmons to force extra innings.

Elliott Warford (4-2), who entered the game with one out and a runner on base in the 10th, yielded a single to Kevin Phillips, but he bounced back to strike out York and get Taylor Owenby to ground into an inning ending fielder's choice.  He was credited with the win.

The loss was charged to Gentry (0-2), who came on in relief in the 10th, only to yield Jones' triple and Overton's game winning single in the only two batters he faced.

ETSU grabbed a 2-0 lead in its first at bat, but Chris Ohmstede quickly tied it in the bottom of the first with a two-run home run, his fourth in consecutive games, 12th of the season, and 42nd long ball of his career.

The Buccaneers then scored six unanswered runs, plating two runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings to go up, 8-2.

Furman got off the deck in the fifth, scoring five times and chasing ETSU starting pitcher Jimmy Nesselt.  Jones' two-run double into the left field corner and two-run single by Blake Chisolm headlined the big inning that also included Overton's pinch-hit sacrifice fly, but the Paladins' bid for an even bigger rally was short-circuited by Bucs' reliever Josh Jacques, who struck out Ryan Morse and Sims Griffith with the bases loaded to end the inning.

In the sixth Overton's two-out home run off Jaques cleared the fence in left field to draw the Paladins even at 8-8.

Jones, who had three hits and drove in three runs in the Paladins' series opening 8-4 victory on Friday, went 3-for-6 with two doubles, three RBI, and scored three times to pace Furman's 13-hit attack.  Morse notched a 3-for-5 performance, and Chisolm went 2-for-4 with two RBI to notch his team leading 22nd multi-hit game.

ETSU, which banged out 14 hits in the contest, was led offensively by Jordan Sanford's 4-for-5, two-RBI display.  Phillips went 3-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored, and York also had three hits, including a triple, and scored a pair of runs.

Buccaneer reliever Chris Cook pitched effectively, working 3 1/3 innings but was the victim of the costly error in the bottom of the ninth that led to Furman's game tying run.

Furman's final three relievers of Ryan Griffith, Will Dvorak, and Warford combined to surrender just one run on three hits over the game's final six innings.

Hunter Reid, Furman Sports Information