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Lander LANDER 8-4
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Winner North Georgia UNG 11-2
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North Georgia UNG
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lander LANDER 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 1
North Georgia UNG 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 X 5 10 1

W: M. Heard (4-0) L: Larson, Jake (2-1)

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Nicholas Winegard

Game Recap: Baseball | | Turner Kirby - Director of Athletic Communications

No. 19 Lander Drops Series Opener to No. 9 North Georgia

DAHLONEGA, Ga. – The 19th-ranked Lander baseball team trimmed an early three-run deficit to one, but ninth-ranked North Georgia used a pair of late insurance runs to pull away for a 5-2 victory in the Peach Belt Conference series opener Friday evening at Bob Stein Stadium.

North Georgia (11-2, 4-0 PBC) broke through in the third inning after both teams were held scoreless through two. The Nighthawks capitalized on a Lander error to plate a pair of unearned runs during a three-run frame and take a 3-0 lead.

Jake Larson settled in following the third, finishing with 6.1 innings of work while scattering nine hits. Four of those hits came in the decisive third inning.

Lander (8-4, 2-2 PBC) answered in the fourth when Lowndes Still lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to score Pip Smalley and cut the deficit to 3-1. Brody Winter pulled the Bearcats within one in the sixth, launching his third home run of the season over the left-field wall.

That was all the offense Lander could muster against North Georgia starter Matthew Heard, who went the distance and allowed just two runs over nine innings.

The Nighthawks added a run in the seventh and another in the eighth to create separation and secure the opener.

The two teams continue the series Saturday at 3 p.m. at Bob Stein Stadium.
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play LANDER UNG
UNG BOT 3rd B. Hamacher singled up the middle, RBI; J. Coleman advanced to second; J. Streeter scored. 0 1
UNG BOT 3rd C. Hodge flied out to rf, SAC, RBI; B. Hamacher advanced to third; J. Coleman scored, unearned. 0 2
UNG BOT 3rd K. Robitzsch singled to right field, RBI; B. Hamacher scored. 0 3
LANDER TOP 4th Lo. Still flied out to lf, SAC, RBI; P. Smalley scored. 1 3
LANDER TOP 6th B. Winter homered to left field, RBI. 2 3
UNG BOT 7th C. Hodge singled to right field, RBI; B. Hamacher scored. 2 4
UNG BOT 8th J. Coleman advanced to second; Z. Aschoff advanced to third; B. Yeomans scored on a balk. 2 5

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