PEMBROKE – The 16th-ranked UNC Pembroke baseball team plated four runs in the second inning to provide more than enough run support for an effective outing from Logan Cook and key a 15-1 rout of visiting North Georgia in the front half of a series-opening doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Sammy Cox Field.

Five different players registered 3-hit outings for UNCP (24-8, 12-7 PBC), including Zade Denton who drove in four and scored twice on a 3-for-5 day at the plate. Eason Spivey singled twice and walked three times on a perfect 2-for-2 hitting line for the Nighthawks (13-16, 3-10).

Logan Cook (5-1) yielded seven hits and six walks in seven innings of work, but struck out three and allowed just a lone earned run in picking up the win for the hosts. Zach Andrews and Aaron Spano each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Black & Gold as well. Brandon Agar (4-3) surrendered nine runs (six earned) on 13 hits in seven innings from the hill to take the loss for the visitors.

UNCP utilized four hits and a pair of costly errors to break open a scoreless game with four runs in the second. North Georgia plated its only run of the game on a one-out RBI single from Ryan Raper in the fifth, but UNCP answered with Denton's two-run single in the seventh, and then added nine insurance runs in the eighth that provided the final.