YOUNG HARRIS, Ga.  |  Royce Woolfolk hit his first home run of the season - a two-run shot off the light pole in left field - in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the game 7-5 for Young Harris College over Southern Wesleyan University Tuesday (April 17) evening at Zell B. Miller Field. 

The Mountain Lions improved to 23-20 on the season, while the Warriors fell to 17-29. Young Harris returns to action Wednesday (April 18) as they travel to Anderson, South Carolina, to take on Anderson (S.C.) University in a 6 p.m. non-conference contest. 

Jackson Jones started the scoring for the Mountain Lions in the first inning with a RBI double to center field that scored Tyler Washington. 

Washington led off the bottom of the seventh inning with his second home run of the season  that hit the light pole in center field. Rudy Gaona hit his team-leading 10th homer of the season over the fence in left center field. Bailey Campbell picked up a RBI after a single through the right side that scored Cory Ewald. Tristin Smith plated the fourth run of the inning with a single through the left side that scored Corley Reynolds. 

YHC starting pitcher Jake Lovvorn set down 12 straight Warriors from the fifth through eighth innings. 

Southern Wesleyan rallied in the top of the ninth inning for five runs on just one hit to even the score at 5. 

Woolfolk, who entered the game as a pinch runner in seventh, ended the game with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning with his two-run shot to left field. 

Jake Tomelevage (3-1) earned the win for the Mountain Lions as he had one strikeout in 0.2 innings pitched.

Woolfolk went 1-for-1 with two RBI and a run scored. Washington finished 3-for-4 with one RBI and two runs scored. Smith and Jones each collected two hits and one RBI. Gaona and Campbell tallied one hit and one RBI. 

Josh Core (1-8) earned the loss for the Warriors as he allowed two runs on two hits in 0.1 innings pitched.