YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Mountain Lions rallied for a 9-3 non-conference baseball victory over Brevard College Tuesday (March 25) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The Mountain Lions extended their win streak to five games as they improved to 17-15 while the Tornados fell to 12-19. Young Harris returns to action Friday (March 28) when they travel to Augusta, Ga., for a 6:30 p.m. Peach Belt Conference contest against Georgia Regents University Augusta.

Brevard, which only had three hits, took a 3-0 lead with a run in the second  and two more in the third as they took advantage off three walks and a couple of Mountain Lion errors.

Young Harris got two runs back in the sixth as Adam Moore and Dom Wyshinski added two-out RBI singles with the bases loaded.

The Mountain Lions took advantage of wildness by Brevard reliever Dustin Haithcox (2-1) in the eighth inning. Tom Valichka and Moore started the one-out rally with back-to-back walks and loaded the bases on pinch hitter Zach Wall's single to deep short.  Bowen Klosinski tied the game at 3 on his infield single back up the middle.  A bases-loaded walk to Zach Odom gave the Mountain Lions, who have scored 16 runs in the eighth inning in their past two games, the lead for good at 4-3. David Atwood added a RBI single while Josh Rudnik's double down the right-field line scored two more runs. Jack Morrow closed out the scoring with an RBI double down the right-field line.

Rudnik led the Mountain Lions with three hits while Moore, Klosinski, and Atwood each collected two apiece.

Taylor Topping (3-3) earned his second win in as many games as he pitched four scoreless innings of one-hit relief for the Mountain Lions.