YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Logan Worley hit the game-winning double to give the Young Harris College baseball team a 10-9 Peach Belt Conference senior day victory over Lander University Sunday (April 24) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.
The Mountain Lions improved to 32-14 overall and 16-8 in the Peach Belt, while the Bearcats fell to 20-25 and 9-14. Young Harris returns to action Friday (April 29) with a 6 p.m. PBC contest against Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
- Young Harris recognized its 11 seniors: Worley, Ryan Inches, Kyle Ayers, Noah Fitzgerald, Tucker Daniel, Jackson Jones McLain Harris, Chad Brown, Chris Cuppini, Michael Caldwell, and Zac Bright prior to the game.
- Lander scored the first run of the game in the third and had a 1-0 lead through the seventh.
- Harris pitched seven innings holding the Bearcats to only three runs and struck out six.
- Lander added two in the eighth to take a 3-0 lead, but YHC rallied for six runs in the bottom of the inning to go ahead 6-3.
- Fitzgerald led off the electric eighth with a single through the left side and came around to score on Jones' no-doubter over the center field fence - his 14th of the season. Mark Castle roped a two-out single up the middle and Aaron Copeland hit a two-run home run to left - his third of the year - to give YHC a 4-3 advantage. Ayers followed with a walk and Worley hit the third home run of the inning - his fourth of the season - to left field to give YHC a 6-3 lead.
- Lander answered with six runs in the top of the ninth to take back the lead again 9-6.
- The Young Harris offense sparked after Jones drew a walk. Rome Wallace and Steven Spell hit back-to-back singles to bring up Castle who was hit by a pitch and gave YHC its first run of the inning. Copeland added an RBI off a single to the outfield and brought up Worley who hit the walk-off double and gave the Mountain Lions a 10-9 win.
- YHC has walked off three of its last four games.
- Young Harris totaled 17 hits. Spell led YHC with four, Copeland and Worley each had three, and Jones and Wallace drove two, while Fitzgerald, Castle, and Ayers connected on one apiece.
- Brown (2-2) earned the win for Young Harris.
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