Nighthawks fall in second half of doubleheader

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GREENWOOD, S.C. – After jumping out to an early lead, the No. 25 University of North Georgia baseball team saw the advantage disappear as Lander won the second game of the series, 8-6, Saturday.

North Georgia loaded up the bases in the second inning and scored three runs in the frame. After scoring one on a double play, Connor Frost doubled and Justin Bailey singled to score two more and take a 3-0 lead. Lander answered by plating single runs in the second and third to take a 3-2 lead.

The Nighthawks would score again in the fourth on a Frost single to take a 4-2 lead, but the Bearcats responded in a big way, scoring two runs on both a double and a single to take a 6-4 lead. Kaleb Freeman got UNG back on the board in the fifth to trim the lead to one, but Lander would extend their lead out to 8-5 on a pair of Nighthawk errors in the sixth. Garrett Hollenbeck plated a run in the eighth on a single to center, but that was all they could muster.

NOTES
– Four Nighthawks combined for eight of UNG’s 11 hits.

– UNG had three doubles, one each from Freeman, Frost and Crews Taylor.

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The rubber match is set for 1 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.
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