STATESBORO – The Georgia Southern baseball team scored three runs late to defeat the Georgia State Panthers in the first game of a three-game Sun Belt Conference series, 4-2, on Thursday night at J.I. Clements Stadium.
Georgia State (23-11, 10-3 SBC) got on the board first in the top of the first inning, when a two-RBI double scored its only two runs of the night. The score would remain 2-0 until the bottom of the fourth inning, where Georgia Southern (22-11, 9-4 SBC) would bring home Jason Swan on a wild pitch, cutting the Panthers lead to only 2-1.