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Adidas
Adidas
Dahlton Cash
S and S Pix
3
Claflin CLAF 1-18, 1-15 pbc
10
Winner Young Harris YHC 9-6, 9-5 pbc
Claflin CLAF
1-18, 1-15 pbc
3
Final
10
Young Harris YHC
9-6, 9-5 pbc
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Claflin CLAF 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 0
Young Harris YHC 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 X 10 10 2

W: Meeks, Brody (1-0) L: Charles Jackson (0-5)

4
Claflin CLAF 1-19, 1-18 PBC
14
Winner Young Harris YHC 10-6, 10-5 PBC
Claflin CLAF
1-19, 1-18 PBC
4
Final
14
Young Harris YHC
10-6, 10-5 PBC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Claflin CLAF 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 4 9 4
Young Harris YHC 2 4 2 0 3 3 X 14 11 2

W: Edwards, Cole (2-1) L: X'zavier Johnson (0-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Michael MacEachern
Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Communications

Mountain Lions take doubleheader to sweep series from Panthers

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Young Harris College swept a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader from Claflin University Sunday (March 21) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

YHC took the opener 10-3 before recording a 14-4 win in the nightcap in seven innings.

The Mountain Lions improved to 10-6 overall and to 10-5 in the Peach Belt, while Claflin fell to 1-19 and 1-18.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

Game 1
  • After Claflin took a 2-0 lead, Dahlton Cash tied the game at 2 with his two-run triple down the right field line in the first inning.
  • The Mountain Lions took the lead for good at 4-3 in the fourth inning. They scored on a wild pitch and a Logan Worley sacrifice fly.
  • YHC added two more runs in the fifth as Cash and Brett Hawkins had RBI doubles.
  • Young Harris closed out the scoring with a four-run eighth inning. Ethan Underwood contributed an RBI double, while Tucker Greer and Cash added run-scoring singles. Jackson Jones also drew a bases-loaded walk.
  • Brody Meeks (1-0) earned the win in relief. Meeks allowed just two hits and issued two walks in 5.1 innings, while striking out a career-high 11.
  • Cash and Hawkins each had three hits for the Mountsin Lions, while Underwood had two.
  • Cash also drove in four runs.
Game 2 
  • The Mountain Lions scored in every inning, but the fourth.
  • Young Harris took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Greer had an RBI triple ahead of Cash's run-scoring single.
  • YHC scored four times in the second. T.J. Byrd had a two-run homer to right and Cash had another RBI single. The Mountain Lions scored another run on a balk.
  • Rome Wallace led off the third with a homer to straight-away center field.
  • Noah Fitzgerald's two-run single highlighted a three-run fifth inning.
  • The Mountain Lions added three runs, with two of them coming on bases-loaded walks. Claflin pitchers walked nine.
  • Cole Edwards (2-1) earned the win as he struck out five in five innings.
  • Fitzgerald, Cash, Byrd and Worley paced the Mountain Lions with two hits each.
  • Fitzgerald and Greer drove in three runs, while Cash and Byrd had two RBI each.
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