GREENWOOD – Brooks Reames and Jordan Owens both homered Thursday night to lead the Lander baseball team to a 9-3 non-conference victory over Augusta State at Legion Field.

Lander improves to 24-20 overall, while the Jaguars slip to 15-29. Although both teams are members of the Peach Belt Conference, the game doesn’t count in the standings because it was played outside of the league schedule.

Lander’s Drew Elliott (1-2) earned the win as he struck out four and allowed five hits in 3.1 innings pitched.

ASU’s Zack Breaux (1-2) took the loss, striking out two, walking two and allowing six runs (three earned) on six hits in four innings of work.

The Jaguars took a 3-0 lead in the first inning on back-to-back home runs over the left field fence by Tristan Toorie and Tony Baker. Toorie had a two-run blast and Baker a solo.

The Bearcats cut the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the inning. With bases loaded, Robert Skinner went home when Bud Lanier was hit by a pitch, then Owens scored on Devin Ridlehoover’s sacrifice fly.

Lander’s Reames belted a solo homer in the second inning to tie the game at 3-3.

The Bearcats took a 6-3 lead in the fourth when Owens -- who broke the Lander single-season RBI record with 55 -- drove in Skinner, then, on the same play, Alan Abreu scored on a throwing error.  Owens then went home on Pete Hernandez’s sacrifice fly.

Lander put the game out of reach in the eighth on a two-run homer by Owens and another Hernandez sacrifice fly.

For Lander, Hernandez went 2-for-3 with one run and one RBI, while Owens batted 2-for-4 with three runs and two RBI.

For ASU, Toorie went 3-for-3 with one run and two RBI, while Kenny Smith was 2-for-3 and Alex Walker 2-for-5 with one run.