BREVARD, N.C. – The No. 2-ranked Lander baseball team smacked five homers, including a grand slam by Jeff May, and scored a season-high 24 runs Tuesday afternoon en route to a 24-13 non-conference victory over Brevard College at Gil Coan Field.

Lander improves to 25-5 overall, while Brevard drops to 12-22.

The Bearcats' Jeremy Jansen (3-0) earned the victory on the mound after striking out three, walking two and allowing one earned run on two hits in 3.1 innings pitched.

Brevard's Bennett Hixon (1-2) took the loss, striking out one and allowing three earned runs on three hits in one inning of work.

Brevard took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Cody Queen's two-run homer to left field, then made it 4-0 on John Slade's homer to right centerfield in the second.

Lander cut the Tornado lead to 4-1 in third on Patrick Grady's solo homer to left field, then Weston Lawing added another run in the fourth when he walked, stole second, reached third on an error then went home on Jacob Tisdale's sacrifice fly.

Brevard stretched the lead to 9-2 in the fourth when Champ Stuart and Aaron Goforth scored on Queen's groundout, Eric Renegar's RBI double drove in Queen and Slade, and Matthew Proffitt singled in Kody Spencer.

Lander took a 10-9 lead in the fifth when the Bearcats exploded for eight runs highlighted by May's grand slam, a two-run homer by Ian Harvey to left field and Erik Lunde's solo shot to centerfield. Connor Lewis drove in Grady for the other run.

Brevard answered with three runs in the fifth on Queen's RBI single, Spencer's RBI groundout, then Queen scored on an error.

The Bearcats tied it at 12-all in the sixth after Grady scored on a wild pitch and Tisdale singled in Lewis.

The Tornados took the lead again at 13-12 in the sixth on Stuart's RBI single, but Lander came right back and went up 14-13 on Harvey's RBI single and Lewis' sacrifice fly.

Lander erupted for seven more runs in the eighth to take a 21-13 lead. Dunn doubled in Colby Painter, Graham Ramos drove in Dunn and May, Grady doubled in Harvey and Ramos, and Lewis doubled in Grady and Lundy.

The Bearcats scored their final three runs in the ninth on Lewis three-run homer to right field.

For Lander, Lewis batted 4-for-5, while Harvey, Grady, Tisdale, May and Ramos had two hits each.

For Brevard, Stuart, Slade and Queen tallied two hits each.