AUGUSTA, Ga. – It was a Saturday twinbill sweep for the UWG baseball team as the Wolves completed an opening-weekend sweep of the Augusta Jaguars.
The Wolves won a close 8-6 game early in the afternoon before pulling away late in an 8-2 victory that finished off the Jaguars.
Game One
West Georgia jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, using a throwing error to bring home
Sam Ladner who stole second and third after reaching via a walk in the opening inning. In the second, Walt McConnell hit a solo shot in his first at-bat in a UWG uniform to stretch the lead to 2-0.
Augusta cut the deficit in half with a third-inning solo home run, and then used a walk, a single, and a double to score two in the fifth to take the lead and chase UWG starter
Will Dean.
In the sixth,
Mason Cooper put a charge into a ball and the left fielder's mistake allowed two runs to score and give UWG the lead again at 4-3.
Michael Rich singled home a fifth run in the following frame, and then Augusta roared back with a pair of runs in their half to tie things up at 5-5.
It was
Myles Cook making things happen in the eighth as he scored from first on a
Cooper Prince single to put the Wolves on top.
Sam Ladner delivered the crushing blow, a two-run home run to make it a three-run game.
Augusta scored a run in the ninth, but that's all they would get as
Garrett Moody earned his first save.
Prince, McCullough, and Ladner each had two hit games for the UWG offense.
Game Two
Augusta struck first in game two, pushing across a run in the first inning before UWG responded with two in the second. It started with a
Cade Hohl sacrifice fly and then an RBI-single by
Jackson Webb, but Augusta tied things up in the bottom half.
The score stayed 2-2 until an Augusta error scored Hohl in the fourth, and the Wolves then went up by two on an RBI-single by
Michael Rich.
West Georgia then broke it open in the sixth, pushing four runs across.
Jackson Webb reached on an error to start and then scored on an RBI-double from
Myles Cook. After Ladner got on the hard way, a hit by pitch,
Luke Hatcher made the Jaguars pay with a towering shot to left field to make it an 8-2 game.
Seth Dudley got the start in the series finale, pitching six innings while giving up two runs on four hits and striking out seven.
Offensively, six different Wolves had hits with Ladner's three RBIs leading the way.
Up Next
The Wolves continue their 2024 campaign on Tuesday as they travel to Georgia College for a non-conference midweek game.
