ATLANTA, GA. - Georgia Southern dropped Tuesday's midweek game at Georgia Tech, 12-3 to open the final week of the regular season. The Eagles scored the game's first run, but the Yellow Jackets answered with 10-straight runs to take the win. The Eagles will stay in Atlanta to prepare for the regular season's final series against Georgia State which starts on Thursday at 6 p.m.

SCORING PLAYS
Top 2nd - GS 1 - GT 0 - A leadoff walk to Mitchell Golden followed by a Logan Baldwin double set Eagles up to take an early lead. C.J. Brazil brought a run in with a safety squeeze to the first base side, plating Golden for the game's first run.
Bot 2nd - GS 1 - GT 4 - Georgia Tech struck back in the fourth, lashing a double and a triple in a four run, five hit frame that put the home side up 4-1.
Bot 3rd - GS 1 - GT 5 - A leadoff double in the third ended Brian Eichhorn's start on the mound, A ground ball to short drove in the run to make it a 5-1 game.
Bot 5th - GS 1 - GT 7 - Relief pitcher Ryan Frederick threw up a blank in the fourth, but Tech added two more in the fifth with a two run home run by Brandt Stallings.
Bot 6th - GS 1 - GT 10 - A three-run Coleman Poje home run in the sixth tacked on more runs to make the score 10-1 heading to the seventh.
Top 7th - GS 2 - GT 10 - A single and a walk with one out put two runner aboard for the Eagles in the seventh. A wild throw on a double play attempt allowed Logan Baldwin to scamper home on the play and make it 10-2.
Bot 7th - GS 2 - GT 12 - A solo home run and three singles resulted in two more Georgia Tech runs, pushing the advantage to 12-2.
Top 8th - GS 3 - GT 12 - Sophomore Tyler Martin squared up a pitch with two outs to hit his eighth home run of the season to the gap in right.

GAME NOTES
- Tyler Martin and Logan Baldwin each had two hit games on Tuesday night. Martin was 2-for-4 with the solo home run while Baldwin went 2-for-3 with a double.
- Brian Eichhorn took the loss to fall to 2-5 on the year. He was tagged with five runs, all earned, off seven hits and two walks.

NEXT UP
Georgia Southern wraps the 2017 regular season with three games against Georgia State at the Georgia State Sports Complex in Decatur. First pitch on Thursday and Friday is set for 6 p.m. with the Saturday regular season finale scheduled for 2 p.m.

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