MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. | Young Harris College collected 31 hits, but it wasn't enough as No. 22 Georgia College took a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday (Feb. 24) at John Kuetz Field.

The Bobcats rallied for 10 runs in their final three at-bats to take a 12-5 win in the opener. The four hour, 18 minute nightcap was a slugfest - each team collected 20 hits - as Georgia College held on for a 19-15 win.

The Bobcats improved to 9-4 overall and to 6-0 in the Peach Belt, while the Mountain Lions fell to 6-8 and 2-4. Young Harris will return to action Tuesday (Feb. 27) with a 2 p.m. non-conference contest against Truett-McConnell College.

Georgia College took a 2-0 lead in the first inning in the opener on a Matthew Miller homer and a RBI double by Nate Schmal. YHC scored a run in the second and four more in the third to open up a 5-2 lead. Brett Graczyk had a sacrifice fly in the second while Jackson Jones smashed a two-run homer to right in the third.  Corley Reynolds and Zavier Lushington had RBI hits in the third.

It would stay that way until the bottom of the sixth when Georgia College tied the game at 5 with three runs (two unearned). The Bobcats took the lead 7-5 in the seventh on a wild pitch and a single through the right side by Garrett Green off YHC reliever Daniel McKee (1-1). Georgia College added five insurance runs in the eighth.

Bradly Cammack (3-0) earned the win with 6.1 scoreless innings of relief.

Jones, Rudy Gaona, Reynolds and Lushington had two hits each for the Mountain Lions. Gaona and Lushington each had a double in the game.

In the nightcap, at least one team scored in every inning but the fourth as the teams combined for 40 hits. The game was tied at 9 through five innings before the Bobcats scored five runs in the sixth and four more in the seventh to take a 18-9 lead.

Leading the hit parade was freshman Skylor Murphy, who went 6-for-6 with three RBI. The six hits set a new YHC record (NCAA era) for a game, surpassing the previous record of five. It also tied a PBC record for hits in a conference game, which has been just five times in the 26-year history of the league. Murphy doubled in the first and collected five singles. His single up the middle scored two runs in the eighth inning, while he drove in another run with a ninth-inning single to right field.

Gaona went 2-for-4 and drove in a team-best five runs. He smacked a three-run homer - his second of the year - to left-center field in the second and added a two-run single in the ninth. Jones, Cory Ewald, and Royce Woolfolk had two hits apiece, while Jones drove in two runs. Lushington connected on a three-run homer to left-center field in the first, while Reynolds added a solo home run in the third inning. It was the first homer of the season for both Lushington and Reynolds.

Logan Howard (1-0) earned the win in relief, while McLain Harris (0-3) absorbed the loss.