Mountain Lions complete series sweep with 5-1 win over Augusta

Photo by Steve Miller / YHC Athletics

The Young Harris College baseball team completed the weekend sweep of Augusta University with a 5-1 decision Sunday (Feb. 19) afternoon at Zell B. Miller Field.

The 30th-ranked Mountain Lions improved to 9-2 overall and to 3-0 in the Peach Belt Conference, while the Jaguars fell to 1-7 and 0-3. YHC returns to action Tuesday (Feb. 21) with a 2 p.m. encounter against Tusculum University in Greeneville, Tennessee.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

• Brady Caloway (2-0) earned the win in relief for the Mountain Lions. Caloway allowed just two hits and struck out two over five innings of shutout baseball.

• Marco Colina led off the bottom of the first with a double to right field. After Ethan Stamps and Drew Bray walked to load the bases. Ethan Underwood drove in a run on a ground out and Bray scored as part of a double steal.

• Colina started a rally in the third inning with a leadoff single and then stole second. After a wild pitch moved him to third, Colina scored on a Bray ground out.

• Bray led off the sixth with a triple to right-center and scored on Jarrett Ford's sacrifice fly to right.

• The Mountain Lions scored their final run in the eighth on a RBI single by Underwood.

• Colin and Bray each had two hits as the Mountain Lions had eight in the game.