Box Score Greenville, TN | In the last midweek game of the regular season, the Mountain Lions defeated the Pioneers of Tusculum University with a final score of 12-5 (Apr 23^rd). Big innings at the plate continue to be the story for the Young Harris offense, who had back-to-back four-run innings this afternoon. In what seems to be a bullpen game for YH, each of the six pitchers who took the mound all recorded at least one strikeout.
 
The Mountain Lions advance to 34-12 overall and remain 6-3 in Conference Carolinas. The Pioneers fall to 17-29 overall and have a 10-17 record in the South Atlantic Conference. 
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:

• Each squad had an impressive double-digit hit game, yet the Mountain Lions capitalized with 12 runs to the Pioneers' five. 
• Ty Smith put the first Pioneer run on the board after his sacrifice fly to left field in the first. 
• Kyle Chatham (3-for-5) knocked one through the left side in the top of the second inning, scoring Kade Smallwood (2-for-3) to tie the game at one. 
• With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Ryan Ortega put the bat on the ball for two RBI with a single to right field. YH trailed 1-3.
• The fifth and sixth innings were game-changing for the Mountain Lions, who tallied a collective eight runs in this span. In the fifth, Luke Hatcher (2-for-6) had an RBI double followed up by Kade Smallwood's RBI single through the right side. To deepen the wound, Jonny Smith (2-for-5) launched a two-run home run to left.
• Jeremy Begora and Luke Hatcher continue to contribute from the top of the lineup, while each picked up RBI in the sixth. This at-bat was Hatcher's second double of the game.
• For the third time of the game the YH bats executed with two outs, Jeremy Begora reached on a fielder's choice to third base, scoring Kyle Chatham in the seventh. 
• The Pioneers tacked on two in the bottom of the eighth inning and gave up two runs in the ninth due to a fielding error and wild pitch mishaps.
• Tusculum had a whopping five errors through nine innings this afternoon, while Young Harris was flawless in the field.
• YH had five in the lineup record multi-hit performances (Bray, Hatcher, Smallwood, Smith, and Chatham)

 
UP NEXT: The Mountain Lions will head to Franklin Springs, Ga for the last three-game series of the regular season this weekend (Apr 25^th-26^th). Young Harris will take on Emmanuel at a 6PM first pitch on Friday (Apr 25^th) and a 1/4PM double-header on Saturday (Apr 26^th). 
 
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