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Jacobs Home Run PBC Tournament
Doug Gordon
4
North Georgia UNG 30-21
6
Winner UNC Pembroke UNCP 37-12
North Georgia UNG
30-21
4
Final
6
UNC Pembroke UNCP
37-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Georgia UNG 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 7 1
UNC Pembroke UNCP 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 X 6 10 0

W: Burke, Anthony (9-2) L: Cade Heil (6-8)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Jacobs Powers No. 17 Baseball Past North Georgia In PBC Tournament Opener

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Trey Jacobs doubled, homered and drove in four runs to help support senior Anthony Burke's sixth complete-game outing of the season as the 17th-ranked and fourth-seeded UNC Pembroke baseball team outlasted fifth-seeded North Georgia, 6-4, on Friday in the Peach Belt Conference Tournament opener for both teams.
 
It was the ninth-straight victory for the Braves (37-12) who have not tasted defeat since an extra-inning loss at North Georgia on April 14. The Nighthawks (30-21) have now dropped five of their last seven outings, and have now dropped both PBC Tournament matchups with the Black & Gold, including last season's 8-5 setback in Florence, S.C.
 
Freshmen breakouts were the stories of the day for the UNCP offense who got 3-hit outings from both Jacobs (3-for-4) and Trevor Clemons (3-for-3, BB), with four other Braves turning in lone base hits. Jarratt Mobley (1-for-3) doubled in a run and scored a run in the victory as well.
 
Chase Sudduth tripled and scored twice on a 2-for-3 day for North Georgia, who also got a home run and three RBI from Andres Perez (1-for-3).
 
Burke (9-2) struck out three and scattered seven hits and four earned runs across his fourth complete game in the last 35 days (five appearances), while also picking up his fifth-straight win as well. All-conference standout Cade Heil (6-8) took the loss for the Nighthawks after allowing five runs on seven hits in just 3-2/3 innings of work.
 
Clemons hit a one-out single in the first and used an ill-timed error to get into position for Jacobs who laced a single off the glove of shortstop William Mapes to give the Braves the lead for good. Jacobs crushed a 2-run homer over the wall in centerfield to extend UNCP's lead out to a trio of runs in the bottom of the third.
 
Perez's one-out sac fly got North Georgia on the board in the fourth, but the Braves answered with a pair of scores in the bottom of the frame to put the game out of reach.
 
UNCP will close out pool play at the PBC Tournament with a pair of games on Saturday at St. Johns River Junior College's Tindall Field in nearby Palatka, Fla. The Braves will lock horns with eighth-seeded Lander (16-33) at 1:30 p.m., before battling top-seeded and sixth-ranked Georgia College (40-10) at 8:30 p.m.  
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