YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Young Harris College defeated Georgia College 8-6 in a Peach Belt baseball game Saturday (March 27) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The Mountain Lions completed the three-game sweep of Georgia College to improved to 14-7 overall and to 13-5 in the Peach Belt. It was the third consecutive PBC series sweep for the Mountain Lions (Flagler College and Claflin University) and was the 10th consecutive PBC win. The Bobcats fell to 11-9 and 10-8.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

• YHC took a 1-0 lead in the first on a Dahlton Cash sacrifice fly.
• The Bobcats took a 3-1 lead after single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings.
• The Mountain Lions reclaimed the lead at 5-3 after a four-run outburst in the fifth. Noah Fitzgerald started the rally with an RBI double down the right field line. Tucker Greer followed with a two-run homer to right center field for his team-leading eighth homer of 2021. Cash followed Greer with a homer to left-center field for his second blast of the season.
• After Georgia College got a run back in the top of the sixth, the Mountain Lions got it back in the bottom half on Cole Jackson's home run to straight away center field. It was Jackson's third homer of the year.
• The Bobcats pulled to within 5-4 in the top of the eight before Young Harris responded with Logan Worley's two-out, two-run double down the left fline lin in the bottom of the eighth to take an 8-5 lead.
• McLain Harris (3-2) started his first game on the mound this season. He went 7.2 innings and struck out four for the win.
• Brody Meeks tallied his second save after strking out two in 1.1 innings.
• Worley led the 13-hit attack with three hits, while Fitzgerald, Cash and Jackson had two hits each.