YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Young Harris College and Georgia Southwestern State University split a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday (March 11) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.
The Hurricanes took game one 6-4 in 10 innings, while the Mountain Lions took the nightcap 7-4. YHC improved 16-7 overall and to 8-4 in the Peach Belt, while Georgia Southwestern fell to 10-8 and 7-5. Young Harris returns home Wednesday (March 15) for a noon contest against Lane College.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
GAME 1
- Young Harris tied the game at 1 on Ethan Underwood's RBI single up the middle in the third inning.Â
- Steven Spell led off the fourth inning with a home run to right field to give YHC a 2-1 lead. It was his second of the season.
- The Mountain Lions regained the lead 4-3 after Jeremy Begora laced a two-run homer to right field in the sixth. It was Begora's fourth homer of 2023.
- The Hurricanes tied the game at 4 in the ninth before adding two more in the 10th.
- Dylan Beck (0-3) absorbed the loss in relief.
- YHC had 10 hits in game one with Underwood and James Basham having two apiece.
GAME 2
- Jackson Kemp singled home the first run for the Mountain Lions in the third.
- The Mountain Lions tied the game at 3 after Marco Colina stroked a two-run homer to left field in the fifth. It was Colina's fifth long ball of the season.
- Basham gave YHC a 4-3 lead after a bases-loaded walk in the sixth inning.
- Kemp's homer in the seventh gave the Mountain Lions the lead for good a 5-4. It was Kemp's third homer of the year.
- YHC pushed the lead to 7-4 with two runs in the eighth inning. Begora drove home one of those runs on a double to left-center field.
- The Mountain Lions had nine hits with Kemp collecting three and Colina adding two more.
- Brady Caloway (3-0) earned the win with five innings of relief allowing just one unearned run and scattering four his.
