UNG blasts four homers in win over Anderson

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DAHLONEGA – The University of North Georgia baseball team used a quartet of homers to blow past Anderson Tuesday night, 13-5.

The Nighthawks got the scoring started in the second when Crews Taylor was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to walk in the first run of the game. Four pitches later, Tim Conway hit a grand slam that just cleared the wall in left center to push the lead out to 5-0. After a bases loaded walk and a wild pitch in the bottom of the third pushed the lead to 7-0, Taylor got in on the homer party with a two run moonshot to right that landed on the softball field and gave UNG a 9-0 lead.

Anderson got their first run in the top of the sixth on a RBI single, but the Nighthawks got it right back in the bottom of the inning with a Jake Arnold solo bomb that made the score 10-1. The Trojans scored a run in the seventh on a RBI double and three in the eighth off two sacrifice flies and a RBI single to cut the lead down to 10-5 before Jorge Arispuro finished off the day with a three run shot to left.

NOTES

– Eddie Galatas (3-0) earned the win, scattering three hits and a pair of walks.

– UNG is now 9-0 this season in games where they score in double figures. The Nighthawks are 14-3 in games where they hold their opponents to five runs or less.

– Riley Frost went 3-for-5 at the plate to lead all hitters.

NEXT UP

North Georgia will start a four-game road trip tomorrow afternoon at West Georgia. First pitch is set for 5 p.m.