AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Augusta Jaguars outhit the Young Harris Mountain Lions 11-9 in a 6-5 Peach Belt Conference loss on Saturday afternoon in Lake Olmstead Stadium.

Augusta (12-6, 4-1 PBC) took a series lead over Young Harris (6-10, 1-7 PBC) with a game-one victory where the Jags produced 19 hits for 16 runs and got a career-best performance from junior slinger Tristan Jones.

In game two, YHC struck first with an RBI single, but the Jags tied it 1-1 on senior Drew Taylor's RBI knock up the middle to score junior Clint Hardy in the bottom of the first. The Mountain Lions used a two-out rally to score four runs on three hits and a few walks to lead 5-1 after two innings.

Hardy drove in senior Cole Thompson in the second and sophomore Jim Wagner laced a liner to center field for a 5-3 ballgame in the fourth. A sacrifice fly ball from senior Nick Rau scored Hardy for one-run affair in the fourth inning and the comeback was sparked.

Junior Joey Stillwell made his second start of the year for Augusta and allowed four hits for five runs in his 1.2 innings pitched. Casey Lenoch made an appearance with 2.1 innings pitched and C.J. Reed logged 1.2 innings of relief.

Sophomore righty David Hagelston took over the Augusta mound in the sixth inning to face one batter to close out the inning and the Jags offense tied the contest in the bottom half of the inning when Boose scored junior Jamal Cummings with a single to left-field.

Tied 5-5, lefty senior Frank Warren entered the game in the midway through the eighth. YHC plated an unearned run for a go-ahead 6-5 lead on a Jaguar infield error.

YHC starter Donald Frew pitched 7.1 innings and gave up 11 hits for five runs while striking out seven. In the bottom of the eighth, the Jags had the bases loaded when YHC reliever Michael Livingston tossed a strikeout to escape the inning with a one-run lead.

YHC held on to outlast Augusta. Hardy was 3-5 with two scored runs for the Jags and Wagner was 3-4 in the loss.

Hagelston (0-1) got the loss 1.2 innings pitched, allowing two hits for one run.

The Jags meet Young Harris on Sunday, March 6 for a 1:00 p.m. first pitch to wrap the PBC series at Lake Olmstead.

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