GREENWOOD, S.C. | Zach Odom hit a three-run homer and Michael Livingston twirled a complete game as Young Harris College took the Peach Belt Conference baseball series finale with Lander University by a score of 8-5 Sunday (April 2) afternoon at Dolny Stadium.

The Mountain Lions improved to 12-20 overall and to 5-10 in the Peach Belt, while the Bearcats fell to 17-17 and 10-8. Young Harris returns to Zell B. Miller Field Tuesday (April 4) for a 5 p.m. non-conference contest against Tusculum College.

Lander took a 2-0 lead in the opening inning against Livingston (5-2), who scattered 11 hits and struck out 11 in his second complete-game win, as Bailey Connell and Reed Gray collected RBI hits. Young Harris tied the game at 2 in the third. Nick Sexton drove in the first run with his double to left and Rudy Gaona added a RBI ground out. 

The Bearcats retook the lead one final time in the bottom half of the inning as Connell homered to left. However, the Mountain Lions struck for three runs in the fourth off pitcher J.D. Waite (1-3). Cory Ewald started the two-out rally with a double and Tyler Washington walked before Odom hit a three-run homer, his second of 2017, to give the Mountain Lions a 5-3 lead.

Young Harris added an unearned run in the eighth before Lander scored twice in its half on a Mason Dodd homer to close within 6-5.  YHC pushed across two insurance runs in the top of the ninth to take an 8-5 lead. The Mountain Lions got the first run when Odom scored a bases-loaded wild pitch and Gaona drove in the other on a ground out.

Odom led the Mountain Lions with three hits, while Sexton and Wall had two apiece.