Travis Crump drove in three runs, including his league-leading fourth home run of the season, as the Deltaville Deltas surged early past the Tappahannock Tides, 9-5, on Saturday night.

The win pushed Deltaville to an 11-2 mark in Richmond NABA play, and guaranteed the Deltas top seed in the East Division for the league tournament, which begins Tuesday. The Tides fell to 8-5, tied for second in the division with the Richmond River Dogs.

The season’s regular season finale will be this weekend, as the Deltas take on a pair of competitive games to finish out the regular season. On Friday, the River Dogs will visit Deltaville to make up an earlier rainout. On Saturday, the Deltas will host the Prince George Blue Sox, leader of the Virginia Commonwealth Baseball League. The Blue Sox are on a bye week before their postseason tournament, which they enter after having lost just one game during the regular season. Both games start at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday against the Tides, Deltaville got to Tappahannock ace Bowe Rogers early in the first inning. Rogers had blanked Deltaville’s offense for four innings in a preseason exhibition in May, but on Saturday the Deltas offense came out firing. Travis Crump, Spencer Crittenden and Alexander Crittenden led the game off with back-to-back-to-back hits, and Scott Crump followed with a line drive that scored Deltaville’s opening run. By the end of the first, Deltaville had plated five runs, with Holden Sandridge capping the rally with a two-run hit off the right field wall.

Deltaville scored again in the second inning with a sacrifice fly from A. Crittenden to score Brandt Brophy. In the fourth, T. Crump blasted a 1-1 pitch over the right field wall, scoring three more runs.

Tappahannock, up against the ropes, fired back in the sixth with three runs, and in the seventh, took advantage of a pair of Deltaville fielding errors to score twice more. But pitchers Gabriel Espiritu and Timmy Gillen closed the door in relief of starting pitcher Bryan Bierlien, preserving the win.

Gillen joined T. Crump with a multi-hit game to help lead the offense. Bierlien picked up his third win in four starts for Deltaville, striking out four over six innings of work.