Auburndale, Fla. – Clark University wrapped up its ten game stay in central Florida dropping the final two contests of the six day trip to Muskingum University on Friday morning at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex.

The Fighting Muskies (6-2) outslugged the Cougars (5-7) 16-11 in the opener and then grabbed the nightcap, 7-2 to extend their winning streak to five games.

In the first game, the Scarlet and White banged out a season-best 18 hits with six different players getting two hits or more, but Muskingum rallied for six runs in the bottom of the sixth to pull away.

Each team's offense was in high gear in the first two innings and after the Muskies tacked on a run in the third, they were ahead 9-7.

Clark scored twice in the fourth, however, and when Zach Richall (Tyngsboro, Mass.) singled to bring home Mike Eglow (Delmar, N.Y.), the score was knotted at 9-9.

The Cougars then took their first lead when a David Eschen (New York, N.Y.) single drove in Teddy Downing (Cambridge, Mass.) in the fifth.

Muskingum tied the game in the bottom of the frame when Dallas Allen scored on a passed ball with two outs.

Then in the top of the sixth, Clark surged back ahead when Eglow, Richall and Adam Chochrek (Foxboro, Mass.) had consecutive base hits with Chochrek's driving in Eglow for the go ahead run.

The Cougars' lead would be short-lived as the Muskies sent ten batters the plate in the six-run sixth, including Joe Shumar's two-run single.

Downing, Eschen, James Conway (Newburyport, Mass.) and Eglow all had three hits for Clark with Eschen driving in a career-best four runs.

Reliever Brett O'Keefe (Brighton, Mass.), who entered the game in the sixth and has two saves on the season, took the loss, allowing six runs.

In the nightcap, the Muskies went ahead in the first on a Shumar single and then added three more in the fourth when Shumar singled again and then Chris Leitenberger crushed a two-run homer.

Down 5-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth, Clark finally got on the board when Chochrek drove in a run with a bases loaded single and then Zach Kelley (Hadley, Mass.) drew a bases loaded walk.

Kyle Bonicki (Waterbury, Conn.) and Chochrek each had two hits for Clark in the nightcap.

The Cougars return back to Worcester to host city-area rival Anna Maria on Tuesday. First pitch in slated for 3:30 p.m.