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DAHLONEGA – The University of North Georgia baseball team fell in the final game of a midweek series to West Florida Wednesday afternoon, 8-6.

The Nighthawks jumped out in front in the first inning on a Jorge Arispuro sacrifice before a RBI single from Justin Bailey in the second doubled the lead. West Florida answered by tying the game up in the third inning on a two run homer. Neither team could scratch the scoreboard until the sixth when the Argonauts used a RBI single to take a 3-2 lead.

North Georgia tied it up in the bottom of the sixth when Will Hardigree hit a double to center field that plated the tying run. UWF retook the lead in the seventh inning on a bases loaded walk, but again the Nighthawks tied it up in the eighth on a Hardigree sacrifice fly. The Argos took control in the ninth, scoring four runs in the inning, but UNG had some fight left as Crews Taylor hit a two run homer to cut the lead down to 8-6. The Nighthawks got the tying run aboard, but West Florida got out of the inning to earn a split.

NOTES
– Bailey finished the day 3-for-3 at the plate, while Hardigree was 2-for-3 in the batter’s box.

– The split was the second in a row in the all-time series, matching the 2019 schedule which was the last time the two teams met.

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North Georgia will open a three game series at Augusta Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.

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DAHLONEGA, Ga. — The University of North Georgia baseball team needed a run in the 10th to extend the game before walking it off in the 11th as they took down West Florida Tuesday night, 7-6.

North Georgia got on the board first with a two run homer from Crews Taylor that sailed over the netting in right field. UNG kept it going in the third with a Josh Sosa RBI double down the line in left that extended the lead to 3-0. After West Florida scored five in the fourth to take a 5-3 lead, Sosa kept his hot bat going in the bottom of the fifth, hitting his first collegiate homer over the wall in left center to tie the game at 5-5.

Neither team could find a run in the rest of the regulation innings, forcing extra frames. West Florida found a run in the 10th inning, using small ball to move a runner around and home on a RBI single, but the Nighthawks answered in the bottom of the inning, moving Jake Arnold around after he reached on an error to tie the game. UNG loaded up the bases in the 11th, setting up Tim Conway for his second walkoff in five days, a single into left field to end the game.

NOTES
– Caleb Mitchell (3-0) got the win in relief, getting the Nighthawks out of the inning in the 11th unscathed.

– Sosa went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI and a run scored. Conway, Jorge Arispuro and Will Hardigree each had two hits on the day as well.

– North Georgia has now won six straight extra inning games. UWF falls to 4-3 in extra frames this season.

NEXT UP
North Georgia and the Argos will wrap up the midweek series tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.

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