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LAWRENCEVILLE - The Georgia Gwinnett bats found contact early and often on Sunday afternoon as the sixth-ranked Grizzlies put together 17 hits en route to a 14-4 rout of Fisher at Grizzly Baseball Complex to complete a three-game sweep of the visitors from Massachusetts.

"It was a great weekend for us," GGC Head Coach Brad Stromdahl said. "Sheldon did a good job keeping the ball in the strike zone, and really, everyone did pretty well today. We did what we needed to do, and we put the ball in play a lot. When you're putting the ball in play and pitchers are putting up zeroes, you're going to have a good day."

"We're getting there," the third-year coach said of his team's performance. "We're going to see Fisher again later this season, and when they get back here, they're going to be very, very good."

With the win, GGC moves to 11-3 on the season and has now taken home back-to-back sweeps over the past two weekend series. Fisher, a fellow member of the Association of Independent Institutions, dropped to 0-5.

GGC will host the A.I.I. conference tournament in May.

The Grizzlies were led offensively by a heart of the line-up that featured multiple-hit outings from five separate Grizzlies, including three-hit days from both Kyler Timmerman and Michael Hodorowski. Jereid Woods, Ty Abbott and William Paschal each collected two, and Marcus McCorkle ended 1-for-2 with three walks, two scores and two runs batted in.

"I think everyone did a great job this weekend. We moved from base-to-base, we stayed competitive and scored early," McCorkle said. "With this being a conference team and after the loss to Truett, we had a lot of fire coming into the weekend, and we had the mindset that we needed to come in play well against this team."

Sheldon Connor also put on a third consecutive impressive pitching display for the Grizzlies, going six innings and allowing six hits without surrendering a single run. For the weekend, all three starters for GGC pitched at least six innings without giving up an earned run.

Singles from Arsenio Watlington, Hodorowski and Timmerman got things going in the opening stanza for the Grizzlies, and William Paschal's two-out triple made it 3-0. Brady Shoppe followed up with a single just moments later to spot Connor the sizable early advantage.

A Paschal single scored Timmerman two innings later, but the floodgates would really open in the fourth as 12 Grizzlies made the trip to the plate, taking advantage of four hits and a pair of errors to make it 12-0.

The Falcons pushed a quartet of consolation runs across home in the eighth before an Abbott double reclaimed two scores to account for the final score.

GGC will return to action on Tuesday vs. Reinhardt. First pitch from Grizzly Baseball Complex is set for 3 p.m.

NOTES: GGC has never lost a three- or four-game series at Grizzly Baseball Complex ... The Grizzlies now have four series victories this season ... GGC is 60-18 all-time in home games ... Saturday's shutout was the first since an 11-0 victory in last season's A.I.I. Championship game vs. Houston-Victoria ... The 15-run margin of victory on Saturday is the largest since a 19-0 win over Ohio State Lima on March 14, 2014 ... GGC is now 5-1 this season vs. teams that are currently receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 poll ... The Grizzlies have a 31-8 all-time record in the month of February ... GGC is 4-0 all-time vs. the state of Massachusetts, beating Fisher 4-3 in 10 innings last season ... The Grizzlies have only played a regular-season series with an A.I.I. opponent on two other occasions, going 5-1 over the course of two series with LSU Alexandria last year ... Between baseball and softball this weekend, the Grizzlies out-scored the Falcons by a score of 92-5.

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