DAHLONEGA - The University of North Georgia baseball team hit eight long balls Sunday in the doubleheader to finish off the season sweep of Francis Marion, winning 8-4 and 16-7 Sunday in Peach Belt Conference action.
GAME ONE - UNG 8, FMU 4
Francis Marion scratched the first run across in the fourth inning when they scored on a Nighthawk error, but the run advantage was quickly erased as
Andres Perez hit a bomb on the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the frame to tie the game at 1-1.
Brady Eeles gave UNG the lead for good in the fifth with a two RBI double in the fifth.
The Patriots cut the lead to 3-2 on a wild pitch in the sixth, but again UNG answered right away, using a
Nik Levensteins solo homer to stretch the lead back out to a two run cushion. Moments later,
Tim Conway doubled down the left field line to score another run, making the score 5-2.
The Nighthawks pushed three more runs across in the seventh before FMU hit a two run homer to bring the game to its final.
Cade Heil (2-0) earned the win with
Maddex Richardson (1) collecting the three inning save.
GAME TWO - UNG 16, FMU 7
The Patriots wasted little time taking their first multi-run lead of the series, blasting a three run homer in the first inning. North Georgia answered in the bottom of the inning with solo homers from
Crews Taylor and Perez to cut the lead to 3-2.
FMU pushed the lead back out to a 7-2 advantage in the fourth after loading the bases early in the inning. The Patriots used a RBI single, a UNG error and two walks to get their runs.
From there, it was all North Georgia as the Nighthawks scored 14 unanswered runs across the final five frames. Conway and Perez homered in the fifth inning with the former hitting his second of the night in the sixth. Taylor homered for the second time in the game in the seventh inning, bringing the total number of homers to six in the game.
Tyler Courtney (1-0) earned the win in relief, throwing 2.1 innings of two hit baseball.
NOTES
- The six homers in a game is tied for the second most all-time. It is the fourth time that UNG has hit exactly six homers in a contest with the most recent being May 9, 2009, against Armstrong Atlantic.
- Perez, Conway and Taylor's multi-homer games were the 49th, 50th and 51st time that a UNG player has hit exactly two homers in a single game.
- Perez finished the day 3-for-7 at the plate with all three hits being homers.
Brady Eeles kept his hot bat going, finishing the day 5-for-10.
NEXT UP
North Georgia will travel to Georgia College next weekend for a three-game set.
