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Recap | Box Score

May 9, 2012

Hall's Complete Game Leads Armstrong Past North Georgia 4-0

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Georgia (24-27) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
Armstrong Atlantic State (37-13) 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 X 4 6 2
@ Columbus, GA | Golden Park
Pitching
Win: Chandler Hall (9-2) - Armstrong Atlantic State
Loss: Phillip Taylor (0-3) - North Georgia
North Georgia Batting
2B: none
3B: none
HR: none
Armstrong Atlantic State Batting
2B: none
3B: none
HR: none
full stats

COLUMBUS, Ga. – Armstrong's Chandler Hall tossed a complete game shutout Wednesday afternoon to lead the No. 11-ranked Armstrong Atlantic baseball team to a 4-0 victory over North Georgia College in the first round of the Peach Belt Conference Tournament at Golden Park.

Armstrong (37-13), the top seed in the East Division, will face Montevallo (W2), a 6-5, extra-inning winner over USC Aiken, at 12:30 p.m., Thursday.

North Georgia (24-27), the fourth seed in the West Division, drops to the loser’s bracket and will play USC Aiken (E3) at 9 a.m., Thursday.

Hall (9-2) struck out four, walked three and allowed five hits.

North Georgia’s Phillip Taylor (0-3) suffered the loss after striking out one, walking four and allowing three earned runs on two hits in two-thirds of an inning.

The two teams endured a 2:27 rain delay at the top of the third inning.

Armstrong took a 3-0 lead in the third inning.  Taylor walked the bases loaded -- Drew Walker, Alex Frederick and John Roberts – then the Pirates got back-to-back RBI singles from Chris Zittrouer and Cody Powell and a bases-loaded walk by Will Thomas.

The Pirates stretched their lead to 4-0 in the sixth, when, again, with bases loaded – Casey Maloney walked, Walker reached on a fielding error and Frederick singled – Dennard’s RBI groundout plated Maloney.

For Armstrong, Zittrouer batted 2-for-4.