YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. –  Zach Bricknell hit three home runs as Young Harris College concluded its 2013 season with a 21-2 decision over Toccoa Falls College Saturday (May 4) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The Mountain Lions ended the season with a three-game win streak to finish at 25-23 while the Eagles fell to 28-15.

Bricknell, a senior outfielder from Woodstock, Ga., finished on a flourish as he stroked seven home runs over the final two days (three games) of the season. Bricknell finished the season with 22, surpassing Nick Markakis' total of 21 in 2003 when the Mountain Lions were a junior college.  Both Bricknell and Markakis went to the same high school – Woodstock High School.

Bricknell, who leads the Peach Belt Conference in home runs, is now tied for seventh-most long balls in a season in the PBC. He is one of just two players in the Peach Belt ever to hit three home runs in two different games in a season and in their career. Bricknell also hit three homers in a 9-4 win over Francis Marion University Friday (May 3).

Bricknell, who is the lone senior for the Mountain Lions, had an eventful day. He started by picking up his bachelor's degree in business and public policy during the College's commencement exercises in the morning before he hit solo home runs in the second and third innings. He capped off the day by adding three-run inside-the-park homer off the top of the center field fence in the fourth.

Young Harris greeted six different Eagle pitchers with 18 hits, 11 going for extra bases. The Mountain Lions had five homers, a triple and five doubles as they scored in every inning but the fifth. Bricknell and Bowen Klosinski, who closed out the game with a grand slam, led the Mountain Lions with three hits and 5 RBI. Trey Rogers, Jack Morrow, David Atwood and Tom Valichka each had two hits. Valichka, who had a triple and a home run, also drove in four runs.

Oliver Pratt (2-0) earned the win for the Mountain Lions with four scoreless innings of two-hit relief.