If you score 14 runs in a baseball game, you ought to win. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for the South Georgia State College Hawks on Wednesday afternoon. The Hawks lost their fourth in a row and their eighth out of nine games in Cuthbert against the Andrew College Tigers, 21-14.
At one point, the Hawks led 6-0. Then Andrew came back and scored six in the bottom of the third to tie the game. SGSC came back and outscored Andrew 7-2 in the fourth and fifth to take a 13-8 lead after five innings. Then the Tigers scored 13 runs over the last three innings to eventually win 21-14.
Jaden Camp homered enroute to a 3-4, three-RBI day. Chaz Encarnacion had three hits, two RBI, and two runs scored. Payton Bryant and Luke Boone added two hits of their own as well.
Carson Ward, the fifth of six pitchers the Hawks used on Wednesday, took the loss with 1/3 of an inning of work. He gave up three runs (two earned) on one hit.
The loss drops the Hawks to 19-22 overall and 5-10 in conference play. SGSC has three more games this week – all at home and all against Andrew. The two teams play Thursday at 3 p.m. then again in a Saturday doubleheader that begins at 1 p.m.