Baseball continued its strong play as it won two out of three games against Central Michigan this weekend.

The Huskies (11-18, 6-3 MAC) suffered a 6-3 loss on Friday, but bounced back to defeat the Chippewas (12-18, 3-6 MAC) 7-2 on Saturday and 5-3 on Sunday, to claim the first series win at Central Michigan since 2009.

In the Huskies’ loss, the Chippewas jumped out to a five-run lead, scoring three runs in the second and two more in the third inning.

Central Michigan sophomore Nick Regnier came up with the big hit in the second inning, singling one down the right field to drive in two runs.

The Huskies attempted to rally in the seventh inning when they scored three runs of their own, but that was as close as they would get as the Chippewas held on for the victory.

In the Huskies’ 7-2 victory on Saturday, it was once again the Eli Anderson show. Anderson threw his third consecutive complete game, striking out six batters, giving up two earned runs on seven hits and three walks.

Anderson won his fourth game of the season and has pitched the most complete games in a season since Trevor Feeney threw three in 2008.

“Eli is throwing strikes,” said coach Ed Mathey. “He’s throwing strikes early in the count, he’s commanding the zone, he’s making them swing the bats and our defense has been up to the challenge behind him.”

The Huskies gave Anderson his run support in the fifth inning when they scored four runs on four hits.

The Huskies rallied late to win game three on Sunday. With the Chippewas leading 3-1 after the seventh inning, the Huskies scored two runs in the eighth inning.

With two outs, junior Jeff Zimmerman doubled to right center. Junior Landon Tenhagen followed that up with a two-run blast over the left field wall to tie the game, 3-3.

The Chippewas were held scoreless in the bottom of the eighth by junior Anthony Andres and the Huskies added two runs in the ninth inning to take the lead 5-3.

Andres held strong in the ninth inning and shut down the Chippewas to clinch the weekend series for the Huskies.

“Their pitcher just gave us opportunities and we took advantage of them,” Mathey said. “And I think we scored two runs without any hits. [There was] a fielding miscue by them, some walks, a hit batter and we were able to hold them off in the next inning and finish it up.”