AUGUSTA, Ga. | Michael Livingston twirled a three-hit complete-game shutout in a 4-0 Peach Belt Conference baseball victory over Augusta University Friday (March 9) evening at Lake Olmstead Stadium.
The Mountain Lions improved to 9-10 overall and to 5-5 in the Peach Belt, while the Jaguars slipped to 6-15 and 4-9. The two teams wrap up their three-game series with a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday (March 10).
Livingston, a senior right-handed pitcher from Suwanee, Georgia, recorded his third double-digit strikeout effort of the year as he sat down 12. Livingston (2-1) only allowed three singles - one each in the second, eighth and ninth innings - and worked around three YHC errors as he recorded his first complete game of the season. Livingston was dominate as he allowed one two runners to reach second base the entire night. Livingston is currently second in the Peach Belt with 56 strikeouts.
The Mountain Lions got two runs each in the fifth and ninth innings.Â
Cory Ewald led off the fifth with a home run to give YHC a 1-0 lead. It was Ewald's second long ball of the season.
Corley Reynolds added a double double the left field line in the inning and came around to score on
Brett Graczyk's two-out single to right field.
Jackson Jones started the ninth with a walk and then stole second base. Ewald reached on an infield single to put runners on the corner, before pinch hitter
Bailey Campbell gave the Mountain Lions a 3-0 lead on his single throgh the left side that scored Jones. Ewald later scored on Reynolds' double to left.
Jones, Ewald and Reynolds had two hits apiece for the Mountain Lions.Â
Matt Meeks (1-3) took the loss for the Jaguars as he surrendered five hits and struck out 11.
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