YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Young Harris College and Flagler College split a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday (March 12) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.
 
Young Harris, which won the weekend series with the Saints, scored twice in the bottom of the ninth to take game one 11-10 while Flagler collected 19 hits in game two en route to a 16-9 decision.
 
The Mountain Lions improved to 8-13 overall and to 3-9 in the Peach Belt while the Saints fell to 9-11 and 4-8. Young Harris returns home Tuesday (March 15) to host Mars Hill University in a 3 p.m. non-conference tilt.
 
After Flagler scored four times in the top of the ninth to take a 10-9 lead in game one, Casey Selfe and Jimmy Pinakidis started the rally with back-to-back one-out singles to put runners on the corners. A ground out from Chris McGinnis tied the game at 1. Nick Sexton was intentionally walked by Flagler reliever Jeremy Graf (1-2) and Zach Wall was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Luke Miller followed with the game-winning walk to score Pinakidis.
 
The teams combined for 30 hits – 18 by the Mountain Lions – in the opener that only saw two innings where neither team scored. Every starter for the Mountain Lions collected at least one hit. Brett Westmoreland and Selfe had three hits apiece while Sexton, Wall, Miller and Zach Beggs had two each. Beggs drove in four runs while Wall knocked in two more. McGinnis, Sexton, Miller, Westmoreland and Selfe also drove in a run apiece.
 
Young Harris jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first inning as Mountain Lions scored five unearned runs. Wall drove in two with a homer down the left field line and Beggs smacked a three-run shot to right-center field for his fifth homer.
 
Sexton also added a solo home run in the seventh to right-center field for the Mountain Lions. It was his fourth of the season.
 
Dylan Gibeau (1-1) earned the win with one scoreless inning of relief.
 
The Mountain Lions jumped out to a big first inning lead in game two. Young Harris took a 4-0 lead as they had five hits and took advantage of two Flagler errors. Young Harris got RBI singles from Miller and Westmoreland. However, the Saints got back into the game as Jason Moore hit a three-run homer in the second off YHC starter Michael Livingston (2-3).
 
Flagler broke the game open with a five-run fourth to take an 8-4 lead. Young Harris closed to within two runs as Wall connected the first of two long balls in game two – a two-run shot to left field; however, Flagler scored two runs in the seventh and four more times in the eighth to take a 14-6 lead.
 
Young Harris added three runs in the eighth, including a two-run homer to right field by Wall, who has hit five home runs in 2016.
 
Michael Maiocco (3-1) earned the win for the Saints with seven strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings of relief.
 
The teams combined for 31 hits in game two, including 12 by Young Harris. Wall led the Mountain Lions with three hits in game two while Odom, Selfe and Pinakidis had two each. Wall drove in four runs in the nightcap while Miller and Westmoreland drove in the others.