GREENEVILLE, Tenn. | Dante Key hit a home run as Tusculum College defeated Young Harris College 5-2 in a non-conference baseball contest Tuesday (March 8) afternoon at Pioneer Park.
 
The Pioneers improved to 13-6 while the Mountain Lions slipped to 6-12. Young Harris returns to action Friday (March 11) when they host Peach Belt Conference-foe Flagler College in a 6 p.m. contest at Zell B. Miller Field.
 
Tusculum took a 3-0 lead in the first inning off Young Harris starter Johnny Spring (0-1). Kevin Victoriano drove in the first run on an RBI double while Key followed with a two-run homer – his second of the season – to right field.
 
The Mountain Lions got a run back in the third on a Casey Selfe single to right field that scored Jared Campbell, who started the rally with a walk. Zach Odom moved Campbell on his double to left field.
 
The Pioneers added run on a double play in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead. Young Harris pushed across a run in the eighth inning. Selfe started the two-out rally with a single and came around to score on Nick Sexton's RBI double to left field, but that was as close as Young Harris would get.
 
Selfe and Luke Miller led Young Harris with two hits apiece.
 
Zach Slagle (2-1) earned the win for the Pioneers as he struck out five in six innings, while Devan Watts earned his second save of 2016.