XENIA, Ohio - The Grand Valley State baseball team rolled to a 14-1 victory at the GLIAC Tournament on Friday (May 9) afternoon at Grady's Field inside the Athletes in Action Sports Complex, including a record-tying home run from Giancarlo Brugnoni, to remain in the winner's bracket.

The victory moves the Lakers to 35-11 overall on the year, while Tiffin ends its season at 17-33 overall as the contest was an elimination game for the Dragons.

GVSU will be back on the field at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday (May 10) to take on Lake Erie in a winner's bracket game. The Lakers and Storm are the only two teams remaining in the tournament without a loss so far.

The Lakers continued their offensive outburst that they experienced in their first game, scoring nine runs in the first three innings to take control early against Tiffin.

In the bottom of the first, Mike Nadratowski led off with a single, then moved to third when Kevin Zak singled with one out. To the plate came Brugnoni, who nearly put the record-tying home run over the center field fence, lifting a double off the wall that scored Nadratowski and moved Zak to third. Leading 1-0, Aaron Overbeck extended the lead to 2-0 by scoring Zak with an RBI groundout.

GVSU extended the lead in a big way in the bottom of the second, beginning with a one-out single from Taylor Banks and a walk from Eric Hess to put two on. A Nadratowski double brought Banks in to make it 3-0 and put two on in scoring position for Jamie Potts, who singled through the left side to make it 4-0 and put runners on the corners.

After Potts was caught stealing second, Zak walked to replace him at first with runners on the corners and two out for Brugnoni. On a 1-0 pitch, Brugnoni crushed the ball over the left-center field fence for the 46th home run of his career, tying the career GLIAC record held by current GVSU head coach Jamie Detillion. It was a three-run shot for Brugnoni, his 14th home run of the season, and gave the Lakers a 7-0 lead in the game.

The lead moved to 9-0 when Hess, making only his fifth start of the season, belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the third.

Tiffin got on the board in the top of the seventh with a run on a sacrifice fly, but the Lakers got that run back and a lot more in the bottom of the seventh with another five-spot on the scoreboard. An RBI single by Stuart Eisler, sacrifice fly from Banks, RBI double from Nadratowski and a two-RBI double from Potts pushed the lead out to 14-1, which is how the game ended.

Throughout the offensive onslaught, senior Aaron Jensen (6-3) was stellar on the mound, going seven innings, allowing six hits. He tied a season-high with five strikeouts in the game. Jordan Drake threw two shutout innings in relief with one strikeout.

The offense had a lot of crooked numbers as eight of the nine GVSU starters had at least one hit and eight of the nine starters also scored at least once.

Brugnoni finished the game 2-for-5 with a run scored and four RBI, collecting his 14th home run of the season and 12th double of the season. Potts went 2-for-5 with three RBI, including his 12th double of the year, as well. Nadratowski had a season-high four hits, going 4-for-5 with three runs and two RBI, including two doubles.

Eisler and Banks each had two hits and drove in a run, with Eisler scoring once and Banks twice. Hess had another extremely efficient game, going 1-for-2 with three runs, two RBI, a walk and his first career home run as a Laker.