NCAA D2 Southeast Regional: No. 24-ranked Trojans win opener

By UMO Media Relations
Published in Sports on May 15, 2015 1:48 PM

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THOMASVILLE -- Kilgore Gailmard sparked a fifth-inning rally with a two-RBI double and No. 24-ranked University of Mount Olive defeated Wingate, 5-1, in opening-round play of the 2015 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional on Thursday.

The second-seeded Trojans (38-14) play North Georgia today. It's the first meeting between the two teams since 2008 when Mount Olive defeated North Georgia during its run to the Division II College World Series title.

First pitch is 7 p.m. at Finch Field.

Tied at 1-1 through 4 1/2 innings, UMO loaded the bases in the fifth on Rob Shipman's lead-off walk, Tyler Farmer's one-out walk and Zak Orrison getting hit in the back by a pitch. Gailmard connected on a two-RBI, ground-rule double to put the Trojans in command.

Jason Morozowski plated Orrison with a single. Justin Manning, who mashed a solo home run in the second inning, pushed Gailmard across with a sacrifice fly to left center.

UMO finished the game with three hits.

Senior Gunnar Kines (9-2) retired the final 12 batters he faced in a complete-game performance. He yielded one run on four hits and posted nine strikeouts.

"Later on in the game, I developed my curveball a lot more than how I started, and my change-up started going down further in the strike zone," Kines said. "The scouting report that we was for us to expand the zone and we just had to go out and execute it."

Brett Morgan took the loss for Wingate, despite a two-hit effort.

"We won a baseball game today with three hits so obviously the man to my left Gunnar Kines did a fabulous job," UMO head coach Carl Lancaster said. "We were glad we had him on the mound today. North Georgia is good from what I saw today. We are going to have to get better on the offensive side, no doubt about it and we need another (pitching) performance like we had today."

In other first-round games, top-seeded Catawba held off North Greenville, 4-3; and North Georgia dismantled Peach Belt foe Georgia College, 10-3.