DAHLONEGA - Three homers flew out of Bob Stein Stadium at Cottrell Park Saturday as the No. 30 University of North Georgia baseball team snapped a four-game losing skid with an 11-1 beating of Georgia Southwestern.

The floodgates opened in the third inning as Crews Taylor got things going with a solo bomb that was followed shortly by a Jake Arnold RBI double that plated two more, giving UNG a 3-0 lead. The Nighthawks kept it going in the frame with a Nik Levensteins sacrifice fly, a Jake Howard RBI single and a William Mapes RBI double, pushing the lead up to 6-0.

North Georgia scored again in the fourth on another Levensteins sacrifice fly before the Nighthawks got a pair of two-run blasts from Howard and Bill LeRoy in the fifth that gave North Georgia an 11-0 lead. The Hurricanes pushed a run across in the eighth on a RBI groundout, but that was all GSW could muster.

NOTES
- Steven Bower (4-2) earned the win, going six innings and giving up just six hits while striking out seven. Jay Pendley earned his first save of the year, going the final three innings and allowing just one run off two hits.

- North Georgia struck out just once in the game.

- Four Nighthawks had multi-hit games, led by Howard's 2-for-3 performance, scoring twice while batting in three.

NEXT UP
The rubber game will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.