Box Score MILLEDGEVILLE, GA--Leading 5-4 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, the sixth-ranked Georgia College & State University Bobcats (8-2, 3-0 PBC) erupted for seven runs over the next two innings to salt away the 12-5 victory over the visiting USC Aiken Pacers (4-6, 0-3 PBC) in Peach Belt Conference baseball.  After taking the first two games in the series on Saturday, yesterday's scheduled finale was moved to today due to inclement weather.  In frigid, murky conditions GC&SU picked up its ninth-straight win over USCA.  

The Pacers drew first blood in the first inning when Clint Keown scored on an RBI groundout by Bradley Key.  USCA tacked on one more in its next at bat when Ashley Farr led off the second with a single to center field and Mike Cunningham later singled him home to make it 2-0.  Farr finished as the only Pacer with more than one hit going 2-for-4 on the afternoon.

After getting one back in the bottom of the second on a John McDonald RBI single, the Bobcats grabbed the lead with four in the third inning.  Matt Nixon hit a one out, two-run home run down the left field line to get the inning started.  Brett Lathem had a sacrifice bunt that scored Tyler Folsom and McDonald plated Jamie Langham with a two-out RBI single to cap the inning and make it 5-2.  

USC Aiken capitalized on two Bobcat errors in the sixth inning to push across an unearned run in the form of Demetrick Drumming.  

But a four-run seventh and three more in the eighth blew open the game.  Folsom smacked a bases loaded triple down the right field line that cleared the bases in the seventh.  In the eighth, GC&SU plated three runs on no hits thanks to four Pacer walks, one hit batsman, and one wild pitch.  

Key scored in the eighth on a throwing error and then doubled home Adam Strongman in the ninth to set the final score at 12-5.  

Travis Spell (2-0) tossed 7.0 innings for the Bobcats allowing four runs, two earned, on five hits and two walks while recording four strikeouts.  Joel Sayre worked the final 2.0 innings giving up one earned run on four hits, striking out three.  

For the Pacers, starter Wes McColl (1-1) lasted just 2.2 innings surrendering five runs, only two earned, on seven hits and no walks while striking out four in the loss.  Four additional pitchers combined to close out the final 6.1 innings.  

USC Aiken, which fell out of the Collegiate Baseball Magazine Top 30 poll released this morning, will look to snap its five-game losing streak on Tuesday, February 18 when it hosts North Greenville College at 6:00 PM.  

USC Aiken        110    001    011    -      5      9    1
#6 GC&SU        014    000    43x    -    12    10    4