Nighthawks sweep Peach Belt Series with GSW via 7-0 shutout

DAHLONEGA -- Fueled by a complete-game outing on the mound from Blake Gaubert, the University of North Georgia baseball team completed the Peach Belt Conference series sweep over Georgia Southwestern, 7-0, on Monday afternoon at Bob Stein Stadium. The redshirt sophomore scattered six hits while striking out eight as he moved to 2-0 on the season.

After four and a half scoreless innings, North Georgia used a pair of Hurricane throwing errors with two outs and a two-RBI double by Steven Tomlinson to plate three in the bottom of the fifth.

Connor Hoover pushed the lead to 4-0 in the seventh with a solo homerun, his first of the season.

An inning later, a pair of RBI-singles by Hoover and Tomlinson combined with another GSW throwing errors allowed North Georgia to push across three more runs to cap the game's scoring.

Tomlinson led the UNG offense with three hits in five plate appearances including three RBI.

GSW (4-7, 1-5 PBC) had six different players record a single hit while starter Lance Shelton (1-2) was saddled with the loss after allowing three runs, all unearned, on three hits in five innings of work.

The series win was the third in as many weekends for the Nighthawks who improve to 7-4, 3-0 on the year.

The Nighthawks' non-conference road trip to Anderson, originally scheduled for tomorrow (Feb. 24), has been rescheduled due to projected weather. The new date is set for March 19.

North Georgia now returns to the diamond when the Nighthawks travel to Columbus State for a three-game league series beginning with a single game on Friday (Feb. 27) at 4 p.m.