COLUMBUS - The Columbus State University baseball team won the rubber game against North Georgia by a score of 15-4 on Sunday, March 12. CSU gets their 10th PBC win of the season and they improve to 17-4 (10-2 PBC). The Nighthawks are now 11-10 overall and 5-7 in PBC play.
North Georgia struck early as they scored in the first inning on a single through the right side of the field. Columbus State starter
Peyton Burton settled in after that and gave the Cougars a solid outing of four innings while striking out three.
CSU got the lead back in the third inning when
Isaiah Hernandez got the scoring started with a single to right field scoring two. Columbus State loaded the bases up as junior slugger
Derek Wylie hit a grand slam to blow the game open.
Colby Brabston hit an rbi single to end the scoring in the inning.
UNG scored three in the top half of the fourth inning but they would be held from there on out because of excellent bullpen work from
Logan Seehafer and
Cole English. The duo combined for three dominate innings which they held the opposition scoreless.
In the sixth inning,
Derek Wylie would blast his second homerun of the game then two batters later,
Colby Brabston would hit a line drive for a homerun that got out of Ragsdale Field in a matter of seconds. Brabston would then hit a no-doubt shot over the net in right field in the seventh inning to walk off the Nighthawks via the run rule.
NOTES:
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Derek Wylie hit his PBC leading 8th and 9th homerun in this game and would knock in a season-high 5 RBI's
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Colby Brabston hit his first and second homeruns of the season and he would have a season-high of 3 hits in a game and drive in a season-high 6 RBI's
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Steven Minter drove in a season-high 3 RBI's
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Isaiah Hernandez had a season-high 3 hits in this game and extended his hit streak to 3 games
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Isaac Bouton had a 3 hit day which is his 5th game this year where he had 3 hits or more in a game
UP NEXT:
Columbus State will next be in action on Tuesday, March 14 when they travel to Albany, Ga. when they play vistor to the Albany State Golden Rams. The Cougars defeated ASU in they last match up on Feb. 8 by a score of 4-1.
