Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ST. AUGUSTINE – Flagler College and Georgia College split a Peach Belt Conference baseball doubleheader on Saturday at Drysdale Field. The Saints won the opener 13-12, in 10 innings, as they rallied from a 7-1 deficit. The Bobcats responded in game two with a 19-6 rout.

Flagler is now 8-7 on the season and is 1-4 in the Peach Belt. Georgia College moves to 7-4 overall and 1-1 in conference play.

In the opener, Nick Kranick hit a pinch hit two-run home run in the sixth inning to close the gap to 8-6 and then hit a bases loaded single in the bottom of the 10th to win the game for Flagler.

The Saints trailed the Bobcats 7-1 after three and one-half innings. Shaun Starnes woke up the bats with a two-run double in the bottom of the fourth and Flagler trailed 7-3.

Georgia College plated a run in the sixth to go ahead 8-3, but Flagler scored a run on a groundout and Kranick followed with his pinch hit home run to bring the Saints to within two runs.

Flagler completed the rally in the seventh. Brett Moreland led off with a single and Tyler Vanover followed with a double. Jay Laurienzo continued the hit parade off of Bobcat reliever Daniel Szathmary with a run-scoring single. That knocked Szathmary out of the game, with the Bobcats leading 8-7 with runners on the corners. Christian Bragg came on and got Chace Mitchell to ground out and Vanover scored to tie the game. After a single and walk loaded the bases, Starnes singled to center to score Laurienzo and Flagler took its first lead, 9-8.

Undaunted, Georgia College knotted the game 9-all in the top of the eighth after a Jeremy Donaldson RBI-double.

The Bobcats added two more in the top of the ninth to take an 11-9 lead. Jordan Brooks (0-1), the fourth Georgia College pitcher of the game, came in to finish the game. Jake Hanson greeted him with a one-out solo home run to cut the deficit to 11-10. Andrew Brodbeck walked, Starnes hit a single and Kranick singled to load the bases. Joe Post lined out to center field and pinch runner Jake Jacob scored the game-tying run.

Jake Sandlin hit a lead-off home run in the 10th, but that was all the offense the Bobcats could muster.

Vanover led off Flagler's half of the 10th by being hit by a pitch. He stole second and two batters later, Mitchell hit a double to left-center and Vanover scored the tying run. Hanson was intentionally walked after seeing three consecutive balls. Two batters later, Starnes got hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Kranick smashed the first pitch he saw deep into the left-center gap and pinch runner Justin Ratte scored the winning run.

Jake Brandenberger (3-0), the fifth pitcher used by the Saints, was credited with the win and did not have to throw a pitch in the game. He came on in relief in the 10th with a runner at first base. Brandenberger picked off the runner to end the inning.

Hanson finished 4-for-5 with a double, a home run and scored three runs. Starnes went 4-for-5 with a double and four runs batted in. Kranick went 3-for-4 with the home run and he drove in three runs. Laurienzo collected three singles, scored a run and drove in another. Vanover doubled twice and scored two runs.

Flagler pounded out a season-high 22 hits and scored a season-high 13 runs. The 22 hits by the Saints were the most by the club in a game since collecting 23 hits against Saint Xavier University on Mar. 5, 2010.

Brooks took the loss on the hill for the Bobcats. In one and two-thirds innings of relief, he allowed five hits and four runs.

Donaldson led Georgia College's offense with a 4-for-6 day. He doubled, homered, scored three runs and drove in three runs.

Flagler 13, Georgia College 12 (Feb 23, 2013 at St. Augustine, Fla.) (Game 1)
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Georgia College..... 040 301 012 1 - 12 14  0      (6-4, 0-1 PBC)
Flagler............. 010 203 302 2 - 13 22  4      (8-6, 1-3 PBC)
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Battery: Georgia College - Matt LaMothe; Daniel Szathmary(6); Christian Bragg(7);
Jordan Brooks(9) and Steve Hazel. Flagler - Danny Brown; Tyler Ward(5); Beau Beaudreau(9); Alex Leighton(9); Jake Brandenberger(10) and Chace Mitchell.
Win-Jake Brandenberger(3-0)  Loss-Jordan Brooks(0-1)  T-3:51  A-101
2B GC – Steve Hazel; Jeremy Donaldson.
2B FLG – Tyler Vanover 2; Chace Mitchell; Jake Hanson; Shaun Starnes.
HR GC - Jeremy Donaldson (1); Jake Sandlin (1).
HR FLG - Jake Hanson (1); Andrew Brodbeck (1); Nick Kranick (1).
Weather: 77; cloudy; w: 16 mph out lf
  

In the second game, Georgia College used back-to-back six run innings to blow open a 3-all tie and cruise to a 19-6 victory. The Bobcats sent nine men to the plate in both frames.

In the fourth, Ryan Sabalaskey hit a one-out double to score Daniel Bick to break the 3-all tie. After a single and a walk loaded the bases, Cody Maas ripped a double to the gap in right-center to score two more runs and two batters later, Taylor Hinshaw belted a three-run home run and the Bobcats held a 9-3 lead.

That would be all that John Clark (2-0) would need. He tossed eight innings, scattered 12 hits, allowed four earned runs and struck out four.

Mikee Moore collected four singles, scored three runs and knocked in two more. Hinshsaw went 3-for-4 with a double to go with the home run, and he scored three times and drove in five runs. Maas singled twice, doubled, scored three runs and drove in three runs. Bick singled three times, scored twice and knocked in a run.

Eight of the nine Bobcat starters had at least one hit in the game. Georgia College pounded out 19 hits altogether.

Ratte (1-2) tossed four innings, surrendered 10 hits and nine earned runs. Daniel Stewart, Flagler's fourth pitcher of the evening, pitched an effective two scoreless innings and struck out three batters. He retired all six batters he faced.

Mitch Okey went 3-for-4 with a double and scored two runs. 

The same two teams meet tomorrow (Feb. 24) at 1 p.m. at Drysdale Field.

Georgia College 19, Flagler 6 (Feb 23, 2013 at St. Augustine, Fla.) (Game 2)
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Georgia College..... 012 660 400  - 19 19  1      (7-4, 1-1 PBC)
Flagler............. 012 101 001  -  6 14  3      (8-7, 1-4 PBC)
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Battery: Georgia College - John Clark; Colin McGuire(9) and Cody Maas. Flagler - Justin Ratte; Steven Fleming(5); Taylor Nelson(6); Daniel Stewart(8) and Matt Morningstar.
Win-John Clark(2-0)  Loss-Justin Ratte(1-2)  T-2:50  A-0
2B GS – Ryan Sabalaskey; Cody Maas; Taylor Hinshaw.
2B FLG – Joe Post; Mitch Okey.
3B GC – Cody Maas.
HR GC - Taylor Hinshaw (1).
Weather: 80; ptly. cldy.; w: 9 mph lf