YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Noah Fitzgerald hit the game-winning homer to give the Young Harris College baseball team a 7-5 victory over Carson-Newman University Wednesday (April 20) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.
The Mountain Lions improved to 29-14, while the Eagles fell to 25-21. Young Harris returns to action Friday (April 22) with 6 p.m. Peach Belt Conference home series against Lander University.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
- Carson Newman got off to a two-run lead in the first inning.
- Logan Worley led off the Mountain Lion first with a single to left center and advanced to third on a single from Ethan Underwood. Fitzgerald hit a sacrifice fly to give YHC its first run. Rome Wallace added an RBI single, and Mark Castle had the final RBI of the inning to give YHC a 3-2 lead.
- Worley made two diving catches in center field to hold the Eagle offense from having two big innings.
- The Eagles added a run in the second and fourth to take a one-run advantage, but the Mountain Lions tied it up at 4 in the fifth after Jackson Jones added an RBI off a sacrifice fly.
- The score remained at four until Jones got the YHC rally started in the eighth off a single and came around to score on a sacrifice flyout from Castle.
- Carson-Newman tied it up at 5 in the ninth, but Underwood was hit by a pitch to give YHC a base runner and Fitzgerald followed with a two-run walk-off homer to right-center field to give the Mountain Lions the victory.
- McLain Harris (6-3) earned the YHC win and is one win away from tying the career record of 17 wins held by former Mountain Lion Adam Moore (2011-14).
- YHC totaled 11 hits. Worley, Fitzgerald, Jones, and Wallace had two apiece, while Underwood, Steven Spell, and Kyle Ayers each connected on one.
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