Jeremy Stawychny and two relief pitchers allowed one hit apiece and Nikolay Uherek and Jeremy Bales combined on a five-hitter as Lee University opened its baseball season Saturday by beating Emmanuel 6-0 and 5-0 at Olympic Field in Cleveland. Josh Silver, Derrick Pitts, Zacary Hawkins and Siosi Poti each had two hits and scored a run and Jordan Stewart drove in two for Lee in the first game, when Hawkins hit two doubles. He and Blake Ray had two RBIs each and Silver was 2-for-3 with two runs in game two.
• Toccoa Falls beat host Bryan College 11-7 and 9-2 in baseball Saturday, leaving the Lions 1-2 for the weekend and the season. Jordan Couillard homered and doubled and drove in five runs and Will Patrick was 2-for-3 with four RBIs in Toccoa’s first win, overcoming a 7-0 deficit after two innings. For Bryan in that game, Tyler Latham was 3-for-3 with an RBI, Hunter Tipton was 2-for-2 with three RBIs and Crandon Wallace had two hits and two RBIs. Justin Morhardt had two RBIs and Garrison Price and Cody Rhinehart had two hits each for the Lions in the finale, when Josh Hill homered and drove in four runs for the visitors.
• Chattanooga State won the first game of its baseball season Friday by defeating visiting Georgia Perimeter 5-1 behind the complete-game pitching of Tyler Troutt and two hits and five RBIs from shortstop Tyler Hendley. But nationally ranked Perimeter won the second game of the doubleheader 10-0 with five-run innings in the third and sixth and then won both games on the Jaguars’ field Saturday in Covington, Ga., 11-5 and 5-1.
• Cleveland State opened its baseball season Saturday at home by downing Roane State 5-0 and 12-2. Keegan Frederick pitched five innings of one-hit ball and Gabriel Rich closed out the first game for the Cougars, when Chris Caffrey and Anthony Hunt each had two hits and an RBI and Dalton Rogers added an RBI double. A six-run first inning featuring RBI doubles by Keith Buckhault, Caffrey and Rogers and a two-run two-bagger by Zach Janes propelled them to the five-inning win. Janes and Rogers each added another RBI and Jake Wright contributed a two-run single.
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