Western Kentucky's baseball team got seven innings of one-run relief from Kevin Elder, but an early deficit was too much to overcome as Florida Atlantic took the middle game of the weekend series, 5-3, on Saturday at Nick Denes Field.
WKU's Colie Currie and Wyatt Featherston hit their fifth home runs of the seasons, both solo shots, in the loss.
The Owls scored four runs in the first three innings on seven hits to take a 4-0 lead. Elder came in and held the visitors to five baserunners the rest of the way, with a solo home run in the seventh as the only damage on the scoreboard.