LaGRANGE, Ga. - LaGrange snapped a three-game losing streak by hammering Huntingdon in a CCS doubleheader Friday night at Cleaveland Field in Williamson Stadium. The Panthers (17-21, 9-8 CCS) run-ruled the Hawks (18-17, 7-10 CCS) 17-7 in the first game, then completed the sweep with a 14-5 victory in the second game that ended in the eighth inning because of weather.

LaGrange banged out 35 hits in the doubleheader, 20 coming in the first game. Carson Burgamy, Riley George, and Jackson McElvey combined for 18 hits. Burgamy had six hits, scored four runs, and three RBIs. George had six hits, scored three runs, and had six RBIs. McElvey was the third Panthers with six hits, while scoring six runs and having five RBIs. He needed a home run of hitting for the cycle, finishing with two singles, a double, and a triple.

GAME 1- The Panthers overcame deficits of three runs and four runs to tie the game twice. They exploded for 10 runs in the sixth inning to take a 17-7 lead and Nick Morgan set the Hawks down in order in the seventh to end the game.

Huntingdon took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. The Panthers got a run back in their half of the fourth on Jorge Fragoso's sacrifice fly which scored McElvey. LC tied the game 3-3 in the second inning. McElvey had a run-scoring single and George came home on Adam Dorn's sacrifice fly.

The Hawks took a 7-3 lead with a four-run fourth inning. The Panthers answered with four runs in their half of the inning to tie the game again. Dorn and Curt Bonner had RBI doubles in the inning. Fragoso's RBI single got LC within one. Burgamy's sacrifice bunt scored Bonner to tie the game 7-7.

In the decisive sixth inning, the Panthers sent 14 batters to the plate and had nine hits. George and Noah Preuer each had two hits and drove in five of the runs. McElvey, Dorn, and George all came home on wild pitches issued by the Hawks' pitchers.

Nash Evans, the third of four Panther pitchers, picked up his first win of the season. He worked 1-2/3 innings, giving up two hits, walking one, and striking out one.

GAME 2- Trystin Merson (2-1) gave LC a quality start in the second game. The sophomore pitched five innings, allowed an earned run, scattered four hits, walked four, and striking out five.

Huntingdon got an unearned run off Merson in the first inning to go up 1-0. The Panthers tied the game in the bottom of the inning. McElvey was hit by a pitch to start the inning. He went to second on an errant pickoff throw and came around to score on Bonner's two-out RBI single.

Over the next three innings, the Panthers built an 11-2 lead. George drove in two runs in the second inning with a single. In the third, McElvey had a two-out two-run single and had another two-run base hit in the fourth inning. 

The Panthers got RBI singles from George and Eli Selby in the sixth inning. Preuer's run-scoring single in the seventh closed out the scoring for LC. The game ended in the eighth inning as rain moved in with the Panthers at bat. 

UP NEXT- The Panthers will celebrate Senior Day on Saturday as they close out the regular season. Game time is 2 p.m. Seniors will be honored in pre-game ceremonies beginning at 1:30 p.m.