GREENWOOD - It had been ten years since the Lander baseball team had won a Peach Bely Regular Season Championship, and it may have taken extra innings, but Gary Garrett's walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the Bearcats a 5-4 win over defending champion Georgia Southwestern to clinch their second title in program history. 

Like in game one, the Hurricanes jumped out to an early 3-0 lead over Lander. In the bottom of the fifth, an RBI single by Chandler Moeller and a run-scoring single by Garrett cut the deficit to one run. Garrett tied the game up in the bottom of the seventh with another single that scored Connor Droze. 

Georgia Southwestern responded in the top of the eighth with a run to make it 4-3. Down to their last at-bat, Droze led off with a walk and was pinch-ran for by Jackson Hoshour. Chris Manriquez singled to put runner at first and second, and a fly out by Moeller allowed Hoshour to move up to third. Garrett tied the game up with a sacrifice fly, his third-straight RBI, to send the game into extra innings. Neither team could score in the tenth inning, and Lander held the Hurricanes scoreless in the top of the 11th. Bennet Nooe and Moeller led off the inning with walks to put the winning run at second base. Kael Snethen then pinch-ran for Nooe, and the first pitch he saw, Garrett lined into right field to score Snethen and give Lander the win and the championship. 

Garrett continued his hot streak at the plate, going 3-4 with four runs driven in to lead the Bearcats. Ross McCurley was also 3-5 on the day, and Ethan Wilder was 2-4 with a double and run scored. 

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