COLUMBUS - The Columbus State University baseball team split the double-header against the Georgia College and State Bobcats on Saturday, April 29. The Cougars won the first game 14-2 and lost the second 3-10. CSU finishes the season 34-13 and 19-11 in PBC play. The Bobcats end their regular season 21-23 and 18-12 in the Peach Belt.
GAME ONE: W 14-2
The Cougars won the first game of the double-header and clinched the series against GCSU off a strong outing from the junior right hander,
Colton Joyner. In Joyner's ninth win of the season he tossed a complete game only giving up two earned runs while striking out seven batters. He finishes the regular season third in the PBC with 80 strikeouts and he leads the PBC with nine wins on the season.
The pitching was impressive and the line up stayed hot for Columbus State.
Win Johns turned in his second three hit game in a row as he blasted his second homerun of the weekend in the seventh inning.
Matthew McDade led the Cougars with four hits and three RBI's in the game. McDade now has nine hits in his last four games.
Ian King also had a three hit game in game one as he brings his batting average up to .354 for the season. The line up as a whole combined for 14 runs on 16 hits in the game.
GAME TWO: L 3-10
The game two the Bobcats jumped all over CSU by scoring in the first two innings, one by a Cougar error and the other on a solo shot to put the lead at 2-0. The Cougars didn't crack the scoreboard till the fifth inning with an RBI groundout off the bat of
Seth Nelson. After the top of the sixth the rest of the game was all GSCU as they scored 10 runs on 14 hits.
Freshman
Jackson Chizek led the way for CSU as he had three hits and one RBI in the game. The three hits is his highest hit total in a game in his young career as a Cougar.
Mason Davis had a multi-hit game as he went 2 for 4 with a double in the second inning.
UP NEXT:
The Cougars will return to postseason play yet again and will wait for after tomorrows games to see where they will travel next. Columbus State is currently locked in the fourth seed in the PBC.