AMERICUS, Ga. | Georgia Southwestern State University took two games from Young Harris College to claim the Peach Belt Conference Baseball Championship Series Saturday (May 13) afternoon at Hurricane Stadium.

The top-seeded Hurricanes rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to take a 5-4 win over the No. 2-seeded Mountain Lions before claiming a 9-2 win in game two.

The Hurricanes, who are ranked 27th in Collegiate Baseball improved to 34-17, while the Mountain Lions, who are ranked No. 30 in Collegiate Baseball and No. 20 in the NCBWA poll, fell to 38-17. The 38 wins is one off the program record of 39 set last season.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

GAME 1

• The Mountain Lions took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fifth on back-to-back home runs by All-PBC Tournament performers Rome Wallace and Drew Bray. Wallace's seventh shot of 2023 went to left center, while Bray's fourth long ball went to right-center field.
• Georgia Southwestern took a 3-2 lead after seven innings as they scored twice in its half of the fifth and added another run in the seventh.
• YHC took lead lead back at 4-3 as they scored twice on Marco Colina's single to center field.
• The Hurricanes won the game on Matthew Mamatas' two-run single down the left field line with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
• Reliever Dylan Beck (4-5) suffered the loss.
• YHC had 10 hits in the game with Jace Wilson and All-PBC Tournament selection James Basham collecting two each.

GAME 2

• Georgia Southwestern took a 3-0 lead in its first at-bat, before the Mountain Lions got two runs back in the second inning on a bases-loaded walk by Jackson Kemp, while Basham drove the other run in on a fielder's choice.
• The Hurricanes added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings and two runs each in the sixth and eighth to take a 9-2 lead.
• Starter Zach Murray (5-5) took the loss.
• The Mountain Lions only managed five hits with Bray posting two of them. 

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