MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Flagler College was held to four hits in a 7-1 loss to open a three-game Peach Belt Conference baseball series at Georgia College & State University, which started today at John Kurtz Field.
Flagler is now 11-15 overall and 5-5 in the Peach Belt Conference. Georgia College has won seven-of-its-last-eight games and improved to 16-11 overall as well as 7-3 in conference play. The same two teams meet in a doubleheader tomorrow at noon.
John Luke Glanton (4-3) tossed eight-plus innings and allowed one run on three hits. He only struck out two, but Glanton induced 15 ground outs and six more fly outs. He retired 15-of-the-first 16 batters he faced.
The Bobcats scored a run in the second inning and took a 2-0 lead with an unearned run in the third. Gabriel Wuerth led off with an infield single and then advanced to second on Matthew Mebane's single into the hole at shortstop.
Mason Gray made a great play to stop the ball in the hole, but his throw to first base was errant and allowed Wuerth to take third. Braeden Smith followed with a fielder's choice to score Wuerth.
Georgia College blew it open with a three-run fifth with all three runs scoring on an Evan Cowan double to center field. Cowan went 2-for-4 with that double and three runs batted in.
The Saints got a run in the top of the ninth on
Kevin RisCassi's RBI single.
Daniel Fischer (2-4) took the loss for Flagler. He allowed four earned runs on seven hits in five innings of work.
Taylor Clapp,
Griffin Garcia, and
Will Taylor each hit one single for the Saints. Taylor scored the run in the ninth.
NOTE: Trey Newland had his 19-game hitting streak snapped today, which is the longest hitting streak by a Flagler player in the NCAA Division II era. John Sgromolo had an 18-game streak in 2010. Chris Barnwell holds the program-record with a 21-game hitting streak in 1998.
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