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Lander LANDER 16-12, 10-6 PBC
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Winner Columbus St. COLUMBUS 15-9, 9-4 PBC
Lander LANDER
16-12, 10-6 PBC
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Final
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Columbus St. COLUMBUS
15-9, 9-4 PBC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Lander LANDER 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 14 2
Columbus St. COLUMBUS 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 6 12 1

W: Dexter Benoit (2-0) L: Sanchez, Joshua (1-2)

CSU G1 Recap
Nick Winegard

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

Lander Drops Heartbreaker in 12 to Columbus State

COLUMBUS, Ga. - In a rematch of last season's Peach Belt Conference Championship series, the Lander baseball team got a two-run home run from Zach Cowart in the top of the ninth to tie the game at five and send it to extra innings, but an untimely error in the 12th inning allowed Columbus State to bring home the winning run on a sacrifice fly for a 6-5 victory Friday evening at Burger King Stadium at Ragsdale Field.

A sacrifice fly opened the scoring for the hosts in the bottom of the first, but an Oliver Zohn solo home run, his third of the season, and a Caden Crews RBI single put Lander in front 2-1 in the second inning.

Columbus State answered with a solo home run in the third to tie the game, but Jake Larson settled in and finished 6.1 innings without allowing another run.

Zohn gave the Bearcats the lead again in the sixth, driving in his second run of the day with an RBI double to center field to make it 3-2.

However, the Cougars broke through in the eighth against Lander reliever Evan Demurias, using a pair of RBI singles and a sacrifice fly to take a 5-3 lead into the ninth.

Down to its final three outs, Lander needed just two batters to tie the game. Ryan Hansen led off with a double before Cowart launched a 3-2 fastball over the scoreboard in right field to even the score at five.

Joshua Sanchez worked around two baserunners in the bottom of the ninth to strand both and send the game to extra innings.

Both teams were held scoreless through the first two extra frames before Columbus State found the breakthrough in the 12th. A walk and a bunt single put the first two runners on, and an error loaded the bases with no outs, setting up a sacrifice fly that brought home the winning run.

The series continues Saturday at 2 p.m.
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play LANDER COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS BOT 1st Cayden Evans flied out to lf, sacrifice fly, RBI (1-2 SBFF); Jax Yoxtheimer scored. 0 1
LANDER TOP 2nd Oliver Zohn homered to right field, RBI (3-2 BBKBF). 1 1
LANDER TOP 2nd Caden Crews singled up the middle, RBI (3-2 BBKBK); Cooper Backman scored. 2 1
COLUMBUS BOT 3rd Jax Yoxtheimer homered to left center, RBI (3-2 BKBBS). 2 2
LANDER TOP 6th Oliver Zohn doubled to center field, RBI (3-1 BBFB); Brody Winter scored. 3 2
COLUMBUS BOT 8th Luke Miller singled to left field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI (1-2 SBS); Michael Cruz advanced to third; Cole Eison scored. 3 3
COLUMBUS BOT 8th Jacob Smith singled to left field, RBI (3-1 BBBK); Luke Miller advanced to third; Michael Cruz scored. 3 4
COLUMBUS BOT 8th Corey Berry flied out to lf, sacrifice fly, RBI (2-0 BB); Luke Miller scored. 3 5
LANDER TOP 9th Zach Cowart homered to right field, 2 RBI (3-2 KBBKB); Ryan Hansen scored. 5 5
COLUMBUS BOT 12th Luke Miller flied out to lf, sacrifice fly, RBI (0-0); Bryce Knox scored. 5 6

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