GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Logan Taplett homered, drove in three runs, and scored three times to headline a 14-hit attack that carried Furman to a 13-4 victory over Northern Kentucky in Saturday afternoon baseball action at Latham Stadium.

The win earned Furman (4-3) its second consecutive home series victory of the 2020 campaign heading into Sunday's 1:00 p.m. finale, when redshirt junior left-hander John Michael Bertrand (1-0, 1.50 ERA) and the Paladins will go for the sweep.

Taplett, Furman's RBI leader a year ago who entered the game with just one hit and one RBI in his first 21 at bats, reached on an error and scored in the third inning, belted a two-run home run in the third, singled in the fifth, and drew a bases loaded walk in the sixth to complete his day at the plate.

Taplett's work offensively keyed Furman to a season high in runs (13) and hits (14), which backed up a solid starting pitching performance by Rob Hughes (1-0). The sophomore right-hander worked five innings, surrendering three hits and an unearned run.  He walked three and struck out one.

MJ Sasapan paced the Paladins with three hits in a 3-for-4, three-RBI, two-run performance, and Dax Roper had two hits, including a double, and scored two runs.  Trent Alley contributeD a pair of hits and two runs, and Jared Mihalik delivered his first RBIs of the season with a sacrifice fly and two-run double.

The Paladins grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second on Mihalik's sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Jordan Starkes.

Furman doubled its lead in the third after Dax Roper led off with a single and Taplett deposited a one-out pitch by Norse starting and losing pitcher Jared Flueck (0-1) over the left center field fence.

The Paladins used a five-run sixth, highlighted by Mihalik's two-run double, to blow the game open in taking a 9-1 lead.

Sasapan's two-run single to right field highlighted a three-run seventh that helped the Paladins go up 12-2.

Northern Kentucky managed just six hits against four Paladin pitchers.

Flueck was tagged for four runs, two earned, on eight hits over 4 2/3 innings.  All six Norse pitches yielded runs.