YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. –
Donovan Garcia belted a two-run home run in the top of the 10
th inning as Flagler College stayed alive with an 8-6 win over Young Harris College in the second game of the best-of-three Peach Belt Conference Tournament quarterfinal series Sunday at Zell B. Miller Field. Young Harris won the "if necessary" game 16-3 in seven innings.
Flagler ends its season with a 25-28 overall record. Young Harris is now 35-17 and advances to the PBC Tournament double-elimination round next weekend at Columbus, Georgia.
In the opener, the Saints put up single tallies in the first and third innings and added two more in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead.
Mason Gray hit a two-run double to left field in the fourth.
Gray was at it again in the sixth when his single to left scored
Donovan Garcia to push Flagler's lead to 5-1.
The Mountain Lions scored three unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth and took the lead in the seventh on Rome Wallace's two-run single.
John Fiorenza's double to left-center scored Gray all the way from first base in the top of the ninth to knot the score at 6-all.
In the Flagler 10
th,
Matthew Burke singled up the middle, and two batters later, Garcia hit his home run.
Gabriel Partridge (5-5), working in his second inning of relief, retired the side in order to preserve the win and force a second game. Partridge struck out one batter in two scoreless innings of relief.
The top of the Flagler lineup had six of the team's 14 hits.
Trey Newland went 3-for-5 with a double and he scored two runs. Gray went 3-for-5 with a double, three runs batted in, and he scored two runs. Burke collected three singles and scored a pair of runs.
McLain Harris (8-4) took the loss in relief for the Mountain Lions. He allowed three runs on four hits.
Wallace hit two singles and drove in two runs for Young Harris. Noah Fitzgerald went 2-for-5 with a double and he scored three runs.
In the final game of the series, the Saints took a quick lead after Fiorenza hit a single back up the middle to score Gray who had just hit a double to right-center in the top of the first inning.
Young Harris answered with eight unanswered runs with three in the first and five more in the second.
Wallace hit a two-run home run in the first inning while Ethan Underwood got a rare two RBI on a sacrifice fly to deep left-center. Underwood finished going 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles, three RBI, and he scored three runs.
Jackson Jones hit a grand slam in the Mountain Lions' six-run sixth inning. Jones went 2-for-3 with six RBI and he scored two runs.
Harris (9-4), who got the loss in the first game, started and tossed five innings to get the win. He scattered seven hits and allowed two runs.
Partridge (5-6), who got the win in relief in the previous game, allowed six runs, five of which were earned, on five hits in one-plus innings. He was one of six pitchers used by the Saints.
Fiorenza went 2-for-3 with a double, a run scored, and two runs batted in.
Ashton Thomas hit a single and a double while
Jaiden Warde hit a pair of singles and knocked in a run.
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