DAHLONEGA - The No. 21 University of North Georgia baseball team fell to Lander in the Peach Belt series opener Friday night, 16-6.
Lander got things started quickly putting up five runs in the first with each of the first five reaching base. North Georgia got one run back in the bottom half of the inning with back-to-back doubles from
Crews Taylor and
Tim Conway that cut the lead to 5-1. After a Bearcat run in the second,
Andres Perez cut the lead back to four with a solo homer off the scoreboard in right center.
The Bearcats came alive again in the fifth with six runs in the frame, highlighted by back-to-back-to-back RBI singles. UNG scored twice in the eighth on a RBI bunt single from
Justin Bailey and a
Jake Howard single to trim the lead to 12-4 before the Bearcats scored four in the top of the fifth. The Nighthawks pushed a pair of unearned runs across in the bottom of the ninth on a
Bill LeRoy RBI double and a
Nik Levensteins RBI single to get to the final score.
NOTES
- Marshall Thompson got the win for the Bearcats, fanning nine batters across his six innings of work.
- Howard and Conway were the lone Nighthawks with multi-hit games, each recording their fifth of the season.
NEXT UP
The Nighthawks and Bearcats will play a doubleheader tomorrow afternoon to wrap up the series starting at 1 p.m.
