HENDERSON, Tenn. - Eleven games into the season, the No. 22 Freed-Hardeman Lions found themselves in an unfamiliar position - trailing.

Entering the seventh inning of the second game of a double-header with No. 25 Judson (Ill.) University, FHU was down 4-0 and hadn't pushed a runner past second base since the second inning.

So all the Lions did was score five times to close out the sweep.

Justin Mackey's two-run single with two outs finished the rally, marking the second time this season that FHU has won in its final at-bat - the other time being in the season opener. Since then, the Lions had not trailed after the first inning until today.

Freed-Hardeman won the opener behind Dan Creighton's pitching, 5-2, before dramatically taking the nightcap, 5-4.

Of the 14 innings, the Lions (10-0-1) only scored in two of them. In game one, they scored five times in the first - more than enough for Creighton (3-0), who limited the Eagles to four hits and struck out eight.

Ryan Huber and Ryan Grigaitis both had RBI singles in the first. Grigaitis finished the game with a pair of hits.

Game two was scoreless until the top of the fifth when Cameron Balough's solo home run broke Chris Hatfield's shutout and was the first earned run allowed by the junior in 18 innings. Judson scored three more in the sixth to take a 4-0 lead.

The Eagles' Jordan Pemble entered in relief of Andrew Bergman in the seventh and retired the first batter before FHU started to rally. Grigaitis, Joe Mike and Jake Todd rapped consecutive singles and Kyle Dearing's two-run double brought the Lions within one.

Pemble struck out Huber before Mackey lined a rocket up the middle that deflected off of Pemble and brought in the winning runs.

Drew Suttles (1-0) picked up the win, working out of a jam in the sixth in relief of Hatfield and tossing a scoreless seventh.

Mike led the Lions at the plate in the second game with a pair of hits.

The series concludes tomorrow with a double-header beginning at noon.