YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Tom Valichka's game-winning single through the right side in the bottom of the ninth gave Young Harris College a 5-4 come-from-behind victory in the nightcap as the Mountain Lions swept a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader from Armstrong Atlantic State University Saturday (March 22) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The Mountain Lions, who won the opener 9-5, improved to 15-15 overall and to 5-9 in the Peach Belt while the Pirates slipped to 15-10 and 7-7. The teams will wrap up their weekend series with a 1 p.m. game Sunday (March 23). 

The Pirates took a 4-1 lead in game two after Clayton Mille, who went 2-for-4, had a RBI triple to center and later scored on R.J. Dennard's sacrifice fly. The Mountain Lions got two runs back in their half of the fifth on Jack Morrow's two-run single to center.

It would stay that way until the ninth when David Atwood started the winning rally with a one-out single to left and moved to second on a walk to Josh Rudnik. Spencer Thomas, who went 4-for-4, tied the game at 4 with his single to center. After Morrow, who went 3-for-4, reached on an infield single to load the bases, Valichka singled through a drawn-in infield to give the Mountain Lions their second ninth-inning rally over a PBC opponent in as many weekends.

Rudnik (2-0) earned the win with two innings of relief while Ryan Good (3-2) took the loss. YHC starter Cody Beck and Armstrong starter Ethan Bader didn't figure in the decision but each had seven strikeouts.

Young Harris jumped out to a 9-0 lead through six innings in the opener. Morrow led Young Harris with three hits, including his sixth homer – a two-run blast off the left field fair pole in the sixth inning. Rudnik, who had triple and a double, and Dom Wyshinski each had two hits. Adam Moore added a two-run single in the first inning.

Justin Cooper (3-3) had a career-high 11 strikeouts – tops for any Mountain Lion pitcher in 2014 – in seven innings as he earned the win. Tyler Allen (1-3) took the loss for the Pirates.