Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

TIFTON, Ga. - The Stallions broke out the brooms and completed a sweep Saturday over Point University on the baseball diamond Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College defeated the Skyhawks by scores of 5-2 and 9-7 to work their way back to the top of the Southern States Athletic Conference standings.

ABAC is now 14-7 in the SSAC, tied with Loyola, William Carey and Thomas University. Mobile is only one game off in the standings at 13-8.

Loyola is 30-12 overall with both the Stallions and William Carey at 29-14.

ABAC takes on Blue Mountain on the road this weekend in a three-game series. Before then, however, the Stallions have a non-conference home game Tuesday versus Albany State at 2 p.m.

GAME 1

Saturday began with the latest gem from Kade Haywood. Haywood pitched a complete game - and on only 75 pitches.

Point had six hits, but only four hitters saw more than four pitches at a time from Haywood. He struck out three and walked only one. 

The Skyhawks had single runs in the 3rd and 4th, but could not get a runner beyond first base after.

ABAC was hot as the game-time temperature at the start. 

Quinten Rawls and Zack Bowman hit back-to-back singles and loaded the bases with no outs on an error. Though the Skyhawks got a pickoff, Dylan Davis and Cameron Campbell singled for a 2-0 lead.

Kam Taylor doubled that to 4-0 with a two-bagger down the left field line that allowed Davis and Campbell to touch home.

Point settled in after that and at one stretch retired 11 straight. However, ABAC plated one last run in the 6th for insurance.

Taylor doubled deep to center to lead off and with one out, Joe Cooney pinch-hit a double to nearly the same spot, making it 5-2.

Haywood pitched a 1-2-3 7th to finish it up.

The Stallions had 10 hits, two each from Davis and Taylor. Taylor had two RBIs.

GAME 2

Tre'von Lee came on for his second complicated save in as many calendar days for the Stallions to complete the sweep.

This was a comeback for the Stallions, who were down 5-2 in the 4th inning. ABAC cut it to 5-3 in the bottom half of the 4th, then exploded for six runs over the 5th and 6th to get ahead for good.

Point complicated that with single runs in the 7th and 8th to pull to 9-7 and when Lee came on with two outs in the bottom of the 8th, there were two runners on base and a 2-0 count on the hitter.

Lee threw two quick strikes and two pitches later completed the strikeout. Point went down 1-2-3 in the 9th, Lee tossing over to Chasin Cash at first base for the final out.

Point, whose only SSAC series win had been against Brewton-Parker, went ahead 2-0 in the 1st.

ABAC tied that by the end of the 3rd. 

Dylan Davis, who went 5-for-5 in the second game, began with a single off the pitcher's leg. That was only the start of a strange trip around the bases.

Trying to pick off Davis, the throw went wild enough to advance him to third. Before he could catch his breath, the throw back to the infield overshot the catcher and Davis scored.

The 3rd-inning run was much more traditional - somewhat. Zack Bowman homered to right field, his first round-tripper of the season.

Three runs in the 4th gave the Skyhawks a 5-2 lead. The Stallions chipped away slightly on a Quinten Rawls sac fly with the bases juiced to plate Kam Taylor.

The tide turned in the 5th. Maddux Earls came on in relief and allowed the Skyhawks no baserunners.

ABAC then retook the lead with four tallies in the bottom half.

The bases immediately loaded on singles to Cash and Davis and Cameron Campbell being nicked by a pitch. Taylor drove in the first two with a single to right.

Parker Wallace walked and filled the bags again, so that when Billy Girgis was hit by a pitch, Campbell scored for a 6-5 lead. Rawls hit another sacrifice fly and ABAC was ahead for good at 7-5.

The Stallions got two more runs in the 6th. Davis doubled and Campbell singled, with both brought home on Drew Rothschild's single over shortstop.

Point scored once in the 7th and then once more in the 8th before Lee came in to save the day again, his third save of the season.

Earls got the victory with three innings of one-run ball.

Beyond Davis' 5-for-5 day, Taylor had three hits and Rothschild had two. Davis scored three times and Rawls, Taylor and Rothschild each added two RBIs to their season totals.

Before the games, seniors Cameron Campbell, Chasin Cash, Drew Rothschild, Jeff Hays, Kade Haywood, Reigh Jordan and Trypp Lumpkin were honored.