DAHLONEGA - Despite scoring first, the No. 17 University of North Georgia baseball team couldn't score late as Lander pushed away to win Saturday, 7-5.

The Nighthawks pushed a run across in the first inning, using a Bearcat throwing error to score Chase Sudduth and put UNG up, 1-0. Lander answered in the second with a solo shot from Roury Glanton and a Zach Moore RBI double to take a 2-1 lead. North Georgia retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning on a two-run blast by Conner Corbitt.

The Bearcats tied the game in the third on a Kyle Jenkins solo shot and took the lead in the fourth with a two-run blast from Carson Jones. North Georgia retied the game in the bottom of the fourth on a Jake Arnold RBI single, scoring Corbitt and William Mapes, but Lander got a Carson Yeager solo homer in the fifth to take the lead for good. LU got an insurance run from Jones on a solo homer in the ninth.

NOTES
- With his second inning homer, Corbitt became the career leader in homers at UNG, hitting 35 homers in his four years as a Nighthawk.

- The Bearcat bullpen combined for four innings of no-hit baseball, allowing just one walk over the final innings of the game.

NEXT UP
The two teams will play in the rubber game tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. with Senior Day festivities taking place prior to first pitch.