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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team cruised to a 12-2 victory over the Calvin Knights in the first game of a three-game series on Friday night.

Rose-Hulman opened the scoring in the first as Kade Kline ripped his third triple of the season into left field and scored on a safety squeeze from Jackson Summers.

The Fightin' Engineers added three in the second with an RBI double from Michael Stenger and RBIs from both Summers and Colter Couillard-Rodak.

A Mark Serdinak sacrifice fly in the third and three more runs in the fourth extended the lead to 8-0 after four innings of play.

The Knights would cut into the lead with a two-run, two-out double in the fifth, but Rose-Hulman would get the runs back in the bottom of the inning on a pair of Calvin mistakes with an error on the third baseman and a passed ball allowing two runs to cross the plate.

Rose-Hulman would walk it off in the eighth with a two-run single from Connor O'Connell to win the game 12-2.

Kade Kline finished with his second five hit game in just three games. He is just the second player in school history to record multiple five-hit games in their career joining Mike Krueger in 1997 and 1999.

Kline also scored four runs for the second time in three games for the most on the team. He is 12-17 with 10 runs scored in his last three games of action.

Couillard-Rodak, Stenger, and O'Connell all added two hits and two RBIs with Stenger adding two runs scored and O'Connell and Couillard-Rodak adding one run scored.

Michael Yager dominated on the mound with six innings pitched and just five hits and two runs allowed. He struck out three batters with just one walk on his way to the win.

Evan Chung came in and pitched two scoreless innings of relief with two strikeouts and just one hit and one walk allowed.

Rose-Hulman improves to 6-4 on the season with their third consecutive win. They will return to action on Saturday for a doubleheader against Calvin at 11 AM and 2 PM.