ANDERSON, S.C. - The Anderson baseball team was unable to overcome five miscues on the afternoon, as Brevard rallied to defeat the Trojans, 11-5, in South Atlantic Conference action Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

Anderson slipped to 13-19 overall and 7-8 in the conference, but still claimed the series after sweeping Friday afternoon's doubleheader. Brevard improved the 12-22 overall and 3-12 in the league.

Sophomore Tyler Miller was 2-for4, with a pair of singles and a walk in the series finale, while senior catcher LJ Newman was 2-for-5 with a single and a home run. Fellow senior Kyle Bailey added a pair of singles.

Senior Mitchell Cooksey (3-2) absorbed the loss, while surrendering five runs in 2/3 innings of relief, as the Trojan defense committed four costly errors in the eighth inning. The right-handed hurler allowed four hits.

Brevard jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning, while Anderson countered with three runs in the bottom of the second frame to claim a brief 3-1 advantage. Back-to-back one-out singles by Michael Rochester and Garrett Bernardo got two runners aboard for Xavier Peralta, whose single to left-center plated Rochester with AU's first run of the afternoon. Stephen McKnight followed with a walk to load the bases, with Bernardo crossing the plate on Bailey's fielder's choice. Miller's two-out single to right field drove in McKnight to give AU a 3-1 lead.

The Tornados capitalized on four singles and plated two runs to knot the score at three apiece in the third inning, while Newman answered for the Trojans with his eighth home run of the season and second in as many games with a blast over the left-field fence.

Neither team scored in the middle three innings, while AU built its lead to 5-3 in the seventh inning when Bailey and Travis Smith sandwiched singles around a ground out. But the Tornados countered with eight unanswered runs over the final two innings to salvage the third game of the series.

Anderson opens a brief two-game road swing at North Georgia on Tuesday, with first-pitch set for 7 p.m. The nonconference contest is slated to be televised on ESPN3.