UNG’s Crews Taylor named Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year
Press Release May 17, 2022
AUGUSTA, Ga. – University of North Georgia baseball player Crews Taylor was tabbed as the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year, earning first team honors in the process, the league office announced Thursday. Additionally, Jacob Lassiat was named the Elite 16 Award Winner, while Pierce Williams and Jake Arnold earned second team accolades.
Taylor was an offensive machine for the Nighthawks. The senior outfielder from Lawrenceville, Georgia, led the Peach Belt in home runs, doubles, runs scored, slugging percentage and total hits and was in the league’s top 10 in batting average and RBI. His 23 home runs this season is tied for ninth-most in a single season in PBC history and tied for fourth-most in NCAA Division II this season. He is also ranked 12th in DII in runs and 33rd in slugging percentage. Taylor becomes the second Nighthawk to be named the PBC Player of the Year, joining Brian Lauderdale who won in 2006.
Lassiat becomes the second Nighthawk in a row to win the Elite 16 Award, given to the player with the highest cumulative grade point average who is competing in the Peach Belt Conference Tournament. The league’s award, presented by EAB, models the NCAA’s Elite 90 Award. Nik Levensteins won the award last year, becoming the first baseball player in program history to win the award.
Williams and Arnold each earned second team All-Conference honors as pitchers with Williams a starter and Arnold a reliever.
Arnold first-inning grand slam ignites UNG offense
Business February 23, 2020
Crews Taylor
FLORENCE, S.C. – Jumping out to a 7-0 lead, the University of North Georgia baseball team hit four long balls, including two by Crews Taylor, to beat Francis Marion, 12-5, Saturday afternoon.
The Nighthawks wasted no time getting on the scoreboard with a grand slam from Jake Arnold in the top half of the first. Taylor came around again in the second inning to hit a solo homer on the first pitch he saw to give UNG a 5-0 lead.
Two batters later, it was Bill LeRoy hitting a bomb to left field on a full count pitch, plating Tim Conway in the process to push the lead up to 7-0.
FMU scratched a run across in the fifth, but North Georgia answered with Taylor’s second homer of the day in the eighth inning. After the Patriots found two in the eighth, the Nighthawks book ended the game with another four-run inning, walking in two and using a Jake Howard RBI single to plate the other two.
Francis Marion got two in the final frame of the game to get to the final score.
NOTES
– The 1-5 hitters for UNG went 10-for-20 with 10 runs scored, nine RBI and six walks.
– Steven Bower (3-1) got the win with 7.1 innings of work, fanning eight along the way.
– North Georgia has now won five straight series against FMU.
NEXT UP
The series finale will be Sunday at 1 p.m. as UNG goes for the sweep.
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