The Ellis baseball team moved back to 500 with a pair of lopsided wins at Minneola Friday. The Railers used a big seventh inning to win the first game 20-5 then cruised to a 14-0, five inning win in game two as they improve to 8-8 on the year.

The Railers scored 11 runs in the top of the seventh to blow open game one. They score the 20 runs on 16 hits, overcoming four errors. Easton Smith picks up the complete game victory, allowing two earned runs on eight hits while striking out 11. Scott Pfeifer and Devin LaBarge both had three hits with Pfeifer driving in three and LaBarge two.

In the second game, Brandon Bollig pitched a three-hit shutout, striking out 12 and walking just one. He also had three hits in the game. Scott Pfeifer and Dalton Hensley both drove in three. Ellis scored four in the first, three in the third, five in the fourth and two in the fifth.