AUGUSTA, Ga. | Young Harris College scored an unearned run in the eighth inning as the Mountain Lions picked up their first Peach Belt Conference victory with a 6-5 win over Augusta University Saturday (March 5) afternoon at Lake Olmstead Stadium.
 
The Mountain Lions improved to 6-10 overall and to 1-7 in the Peach Belt, while the league leading Jaguars fell to 12-6 and 4-1. The rubber game of the three-game weekend series will be played at 1 p.m. Sunday (March 6).
 
With the game tied at 5, Zach Odom led off the eighth with a double to left and moved to third base on Nick Sexton's fly out. Odom scored the game-winning run when he scored on Zach Wall's grounder that was misplayed.
 
Young Harris took a 1-0 lead in the first on a Zach Wall sacrifice fly. After the Jaguars tied the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning, the Mountain Lions scored four times in the second. Triston Smith stroked an RBI double while Luke Miller coaxed a bases-loaded walk for another run. Sexton closed out the scoring with a two-run single to left field.
 
Augusta pushed across single runs in the second, third, fourth and sixth innings to tie the game at 5.
 
Donald Frew (1-3) scattered 11 hits and struck out three in 7 1/3 innings. Michael Livingston earned his first save of 2016 as he wiggled out a one-out bases loaded situation in the eighth inning. Livingston struck out two as he pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
 
Sexton had four of the nine hits for the Mountain Lions while Chris McGinnis collected two more.