YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | The 26th-ranked Young Harris College baseball team opened their 2022 campaign with a 7-0 victory over Union (Tenn.) University Friday (Feb. 4) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The Mountain Lions improved to 1-0, while the Bulldogs fell to 0-1. The two teams wrap up their three-game series with a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday (Feb. 5).

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

• The tandem of Chad Brown and Cole Edwards combined a two-hit shutout. Brown struck out five and allowed one hit in 4.2 innings, while  Edwards (1-0), who picked the victory in relief, strick out four and allowed one hit. They only allowed three Union batters to reach second base.
• The Mountain Lions got all the offense they would need in the fifth off Union starter Walker Adkisson (0-1). Ethan Underwood led off with a double to left-center field and would score on Rome Wallace's two-base sacrifice fly to warning track in left-center.
• YHC added three runs in the sixth. Kyle Ayers, who started the inning with a walk, scored on a wild pitch. Noah Fitzgerald added a two-run homer to left field. Jackson Jones scored on the play after reaching on a double to left.
• Mark Castle walked and Logan Worley singled to center in the seventh inning before Jones smacked a three-run homer to right field to give the Mountain Lions a 7-0 lead. 
• The Mountain Lions tallied nine hits, including two each from Jones, Fitzgerald and Underwood.

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