FLORENCE, S.C. – The second-ranked University of North Georgia baseball team suffered an 8-5 set back to UNC Pembroke on the second day of the 2017 Peach Belt Conference Tournament on Thursday evening at Francis Marion's Sparrow Field. The Braves used a five-run fifth inning to take control of the game. 

The top-seeded Nighthawks will now face eighth-seeded Georgia Southwestern at 1:30 on Friday in an elimination game.

Thursday's contest, which spanned 4 hours and 14 minutes from first pitch to last out, ended at 1:45 a.m. on Friday morning.
 
Steven Tomlinson and Conner Corbitt both tallied 3-for-5 nights to lead the North Georgia offense.
 
Dylan Peppers (7-3) was saddled with the loss for the Nighthawks.
 
The Braves scratched the scoreboard first on a two-run single in the third, but the Nighthawks pushed runs across on the three-straight at-bats in the top of the fourth to steal back the momentum. North Georgia made it a 5-2 game in the fifth on a two-out RBI single by Tomlinson, coupled with a bases-loaded walk minutes later.
 
UNCP would retake the momentum in the home half of the fifth, however, scoring five times on four hits, two walks and a pair of costly errors by the Nighthawks.