GREENWOOD – The No. 13-ranked Lander baseball team won its sixth straight game Tuesday evening when the Bearcats defeated Newberry, 13-1, in a non-conference game at Dolny Stadium.

Lander improves to 14-1 overall, while the Wolves dip to 9-7.

The Bearcat's Ryan Jones (3-0) earned the victory on the mound after striking out four, walking three and allowing one earned run on seven hits in 6.1 innings pitched.

Newberry's Will Robbins (1-2) was tagged with the loss with one strikeout, two walks and five earned runs on four hits in 1.2 innings of work.

Lander jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning when Weston Lawing doubled in Patrick Grady, and Graham Ramos drove in Lawing and Thomas Berry with an RBI single to center field.

The Bearcats made it 5-0 in the second on Grady's two-run homer over the left field wall, then added another run in the third on Berry's solo homer.

Newberry trimmed the lead to 6-1 in the fifth on Ryan Cranmer's RBI single that plated Alex Kirby.

Lander added two more runs in the fifth after Ramos doubled in Lawing, then Ramos stole third and scored on a throwing error.

After Aaron Poole's solo homer put Lander up 9-1 in the sixth, Lander added two more runs in the inning when Berry drove in Grady and Erik Lunde.

The Bearcats finalized the scoring when Thomas Bess' groundout sent Ramos across the plate in the seventh and Connor Lewis scored on Ramos' double in the eighth.

For Lander, Lawing batted 4-for-5, Ramos 3-for-4, Lunde 2-for-4, Grady 2-for-3, Berry 2-for-4 and Poole 2-for-4.

Newberry's Cranmer and D.J. Martinez each collected two hits.