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College baseball: North Georgia drops opener to West Chester in Division II National Tournament

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Updated: May 28, 2017, 3:46 AM

Published: May 28, 2017, 3:51 AM

The No. 3 University of North Georgia baseball team relinquished an early lead and fell, 9-4, to West Chester in Saturday’s opening round of the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Nighthawks (46-11) scored three runs in the top of the second inning, before West Chester’s (41-11) used four runs in the third and five in the seventh to snap North Georgia’s four-game NCAA tourney winning streak.

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Published: Dec 2, 2020, 9:18 PM

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