Brett Wright hit two home runs in Auburn's victory over Northeastern.

AUBURN, Ala. – After hitting six home runs in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, Auburn’s baseball team couldn’t solve Northeastern pitcher Sean Mellen in the nightcap.

Mellen took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, and Northeastern ended No. 15 Auburn’s 15-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory at Plainsman Park.

The Tigers won 14-8 in the opener, but it was clear from the start it wouldn’t be so easy against Mellen, a 6-foot-4, left-hander who entered the game with a 3-0 record and 1.42 earned run average.

Auburn coach Butch Thompson said the difference in the two games was clear for all to see.

“The guys swung, swung, swung (in the first game),” Thompson said. “I thought he we had a great approach. I thought we worked hard. Even in the second game, I thought we worked hard. That was just a quality pitcher we saw. It would have taken an arm his us to stop us.”

The Tigers finally got to him for a run in the eighth when Eduardo Julien doubled home Brett Wright, who had walked. But they would get no more. Reliever Andrew Misiaszek took over in the ninth and stranded the tying run at second base.

Northeastern shortstop Max Burt made game-saving plays in the eighth and ninth innings.

With two outs and Julien on second, Will Holland grounded the ball hard into the hole between shortstop and third. It seemed surely headed for left field, but Burt made a spectacular diving stop, got off the ground and threw Julien out trying to score.

With one out and one on in the ninth, he fielded Brendan Venter’s grounder deep in the hole and threw him out by less than half a step.

Conor Davis grounded out to second, and it was over.

Freshman Tanner Burns took the loss on the mound, giving up two runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings. Cody Greenhill was dominant in relief, giving up just one hit in 4 2/3 innings.

In the first game, Wright launched two homers over the left field fence. Steven Williams, Venter, Josh Anthony and Julien also hit homers in the Tigers’ biggest power surge since they hit seven homers against Mississippi State in 2010.

The Tigers, 6-0 winners Friday night on Casey Mize’s no-hitter, clinched the series and improved to 15-0 on the season, two shy of the program record set by the 1997 College World Series team.

Venter started the onslaught with a solo homer with two outs in the first. Wright closed out a four-run inning with two-run shot. With two outs in the second, Williams hit a two-run shot over the bullpen in right field.

Things got really serious in the fifth.

Anthony and Wright went back-to-back, both to left field, to start the inning. After Jay Estes struck out, Julien went deep over the centerfield fence to make the score 11-1. Auburn coach Butch Thompson began to substitute, but the Tigers still managed to get three more in the eighth.

Calvin Coker got the win in relief of starter Davis Daniels, giving up three hits in 4 2/3 scoreless innings. Daniel gave up one run on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings, but he was in trouble in every inning.

Peyton Glavine got the chance to pitch against his uncle’s team in the top of the ninth with Auburn up 14-1. He gave up six runs on five hits without retiring a batter. Blake Schilleci took over and gave up a three-run homer on his first pitch. Finally, Corey Herndon came in and got the final two outs to end it.

Williams had three of Auburn’s 14 hits. Venter, Anthony and Wright each had two.