YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth as the Mountain Lions opened their Peach Belt Conference baseball series against Georgia Regents University Augusta with a 9-8 victory Saturday (March 7) at Zell B. Miller Field.

Young Harris improved to 7-11 overall and to 4-6 in the conference while the Jaguars fell to 5-9 and 1-3. The two teams will face off in a 1 p.m. doubleheader Sunday (March 8).

After GRU Augusta scored four times in the top of the ninth to take an 8-7 advantage, the Mountain Lions mounted their rally against reliever Tristan Jones (0-3). Nick Sexton started it with a single up the middle and was sacrificed to second by Zach Odom. Brett Westmoreland added a single to put runners on the corner before Zach Wall singled through the left side to tie the game at 8.

After a failed pickoff attempt moved the runners into scoring position, Jones intentionally walked Logan Bell to load the bases before Troy Kizer's singled through the left side of a drawn in infield to give Young Harris the win.

Young Harris batted around in the first inning scoring five times on six hits. Wall hit the first of his two homers – a two-run shot to left field - on the day. Blake Suggs, Westmoreland and Spencer Thomas each collected RBI hits in the first.

Bell drove in a run in the second on a double to left-center field while Wall stroked his fifth homer – a solo blast to left in the seventh – of the season.

William Leatherwood (1-0) earned the win in relief.

Wall led Young Harris with four hits while Sexton, Westmoreland, Kizer and Thomas each had two apiece as Young Harris collected 15 hits in the win.