WINTER PARK, Fla. | Young Harris College swept a non-conference baseball doubleheader from Rollins College Sunday (Feb. 7) afternoon at Alfond Stadium.
 
The Mountain Lions won Saturday's (Feb. 6) suspended game 9-8 before taking a 4-2 decision over the Tars in the regularly-scheduled game.
 
Young Harris improved to 2-1 while the Tars slipped to 2-4. The Mountain Lions will open their home schedule at Zell B. Miller Field with a 3 p.m. contest against the University of West Georgia, which is ranked No. 27 in the latest Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division II Top 40 poll.
 
Daniel McKee (1-0) scattered seven hits allowed just two runs in 7 1/3 innings in the second game. McKee faced 29 batters and recorded 13 ground ball outs.
 
Rollins took a 1-0 lead on a first inning ground out before the Mountain Lions scored twice in the third on a Brett Westmoreland single through the left side of the field. Young Harris took a 3-1 lead in the fifth as Nick Sexton led off the inning with a blast to right-center field off Rollins starter Brian Auerbach (1-1). The Mountain Lions added an insurance run in the eighth on a Chris McGinnis single to left field.
 
The Tars got a run back on a fielder's choice in the eighth, but reliever Jackson Winskie shut Rollins out to record the final five outs and earn his first save of 2016.
 
Luke Miller led the 12-hit attack for the Mountain Lions with three hits while Sexton, Zach Odom, and Zach Wall collected two apiece.
 
The Mountain Lions picked up where they left off Saturday (Feb. 6) in the completion of the suspended game. Young Harris led 5-2 in the third inning Saturday (Feb. 6) before the rains came. Young Harris led 9-3 after six innings as Zach Beggs added a two-run double down the right field line in the fourth and Miller posted a two-run ground-rule double in the sixth.
 
Rollins added single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to pull within 9-5. The Tars scored three times in the bottom of the ninth to close within a run at 9-8 and had nobody out. However, reliever Daniel McKee earned his first save of 2016 as he got an infield fly and a game-ending double play to preserve the win for the Mountain Lions.
 
Michael Livingston (1-0) came into start for the Mountain Lions in the bottom of the third inning when the game was resumed and he scattered seven hits and seven strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings of relief.
 
Odom paced the Mountain Lions with four hits while Westmoreland had two. Sexton and McGinnis also drove in runs for the Mountain Lions.