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DAHLONEGA – The University of North Georgia split a Saturday doubleheader with Georgia Southwestern, winning the nightcap in extra innings.

GAME 1 – GSW 8, UNG 1
The Hurricanes struck first in the third after a leadoff triple led to the game’s first run, but North Georgia answered with a Riley Frost RBI single that tied the game up through three complete, 1-1.

GSW scored the game’s final seven runs, scoring a pair in the sixth, a single run in the seventh, and four in the ninth to take the series opening win.

GAME 2 – UNG 1, GSW 0 (10 inn.)
Both North Georgia and Georgia Southwestern had opportunities to score throughout the first nine innings of the contest, but UNG’s Pierce Williams and GSW’s Nick McCollum threw gems, both going nine innings of shutout baseball and working out of jams.

After Jake Arnold sat down the ‘Canes in the top of the 10th, the Nighthawks pushed across the game’s only run in the bottom of the frame on a Tim Conway walkoff single.

NOTES
– Kaleb Freeman went 3-for-6 on the day, while Jorge Arispuro went 3-for-8.

– The extra innings win broke a streak of eight straight extra innings losses for North Georgia.

NEXT UP
The two teams will meet in a rubber game tomorrow at 1 p.m.

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