AUGUSTA, Ga. – Flagler College scored two early runs, but after that it was all Augusta University as it pulled away to win 17-6 in a Peach Belt Conference baseball game Friday afternoon at Jaguar Field. The game was delayed in the bottom of the sixth inning for 2.5 hours due to lightning.
Augusta extended its winning streak to five games and improved to 13-10 overall and 4-9 in the Peach Belt. The Jaguars have won 6-of-the-last-8 games in the all-time series. Flagler suffered its third loss in a row and dropped to 13-13 overall and 7-6 in conference play.
Dillon Reed opened the game with a home run to right field and
Ja'Kobi Dasher's single in the second plated
Sean Lawlor to give the Saints a 2-0 lead.
The Jaguars rallied in the third after Trent Maddox hit a lead-off triple down the right field line. He scored on Beau Hanna's infield single to get Augusta on the board. Patrick Watson followed by reaching on a fielding error by Dasher, which should have been the final out of the inning, but another run scored to tie the game. Skylor Murphy hit a single up the middle to score Hanna with the go-ahead run.
The Jaguars added five more runs in the fourth. Maddox hit a solo home run, Hanna added a two-run double, and then Watson belted a two-run home run to push Augusta's lead to 8-2.
Hanna hit a grand slam in a six-run fifth inning.
Flagler scored three unearned runs in the ninth.
Kenneth Gordon hit an RBI single to right and scored on
Franco Camacho's single.
Charlie Cochran (3-2) allowed three runs on six hits with eight strikeouts for the Jaguars. Alex Colon tossed the final three innings to record the save. He scattered four hits and allowed three unearned runs.
Hanna went 4-for-6 with two doubles, the grand slam, he scored three runs, and collected eight runs batted in. Watson finished 3-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI. Maddox was a double shy of the cycle with three hits, three runs scored, and one RBI.
Derick Garcia (3-3) took the loss on the hill for the Saints. He surrendered 14 hits and 11 earned runs. Garcia walked four batters.
Luke Cooksey,
Chris Altopiedi, and
Aaron Simple saw time in relief.
Jason Moore went 2-for-3 with a solo home run in the sixth inning. He moved into fourth place in career home runs at Flagler with 25.
The same two teams will meet tomorrow at 1 p.m.
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