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14
Winner North Georgia UNG 2-1, 2-1 PBC
0
Claflin CLAF 1-2, 1-2 PBC
Winner
North Georgia UNG
2-1, 2-1 PBC
14
Final
0
Claflin CLAF
1-2, 1-2 PBC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Georgia UNG 0 0 5 0 0 5 4 0 0 14 7 0
Claflin CLAF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6

W: Parker Morrison (1-0) L: Jackson, Charles (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Morris Wright

Claflin Falls in Series Finale to North Georgia

Orangeburg, S.C. – The Claflin University Baseball team fell to the University of North Georgia Nighthawks, 14-0, in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) series finale Friday (Feb. 5) at Historic Mirmow Field.
 
The win gave North Georgia the series and improved the Nighthawks early season record at 2-1 overall and 2-1 in conference play.
 
Claflin (1-2, 1-2) will travel to Lander University next weekend for a PBC three-game series. The action gets underway Saturday (Feb. 13) with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m., followed by the series finale on Sunday (Feb. 14) at 1 p.m.
 
In the contest, the Panther batters managed just three hits off Nighthawks starter Parker Morrison (1-0), who went the distance.  Morrison finished the game with 17 strikeouts; two walks against 31 batters faced.
 
Keyon Smith had the only extra-base hit for Claflin with a double. The Virginia State University transfer finished the series with four hits that included a home run and two doubles. Gerardric Dobbs, who had a single in the game, also wrapped up the series with four hits. Daniel Powell added the final base hit, a single, for the Panther offense in the loss.
 
Charles Jackson, 0-1, who pitched three innings, was the losing pitcher for Claflin.
 
North Georgia had three players that hit home runs in the game, Nik Levensteins knocked out a three-run homer, while Jake Howard and Crews Taylor each belted out two-run shots.
 
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