Box Score

LAWRENCEVILLE - Alex Roberts had won every start of his season coming into Thursday's game against Madonna, but the senior would not be able to make it six in a row as the Georgia Gwinnett Baseball team fell 13-2 to visiting Madonna at Grizzly Baseball Complex.

Roberts, a native of Dalton, would not make it out of the third inning on Thursday, allowing six runs (five earned) on eight hits over 2.1 frames to drop to 5-1 as a starter. Those runs would prove to be all the visitors from Michigan would need as Crusader pitcher Adam Prashad proved to be effective, striking out 12 and allowing four hits and a pair of scores over six innings of work.

With the loss, GGC saw its streak of eight consecutive victories snapped, and the team now sits at 16-4. Madonna, who had lost a one-run game to Lindsey Wilson to open play on Thursday, improved to 6-4.

William Paschal was the lone standout in a Grizzly line-up that collected five hits on the day, and the junior out of Norcross finished the night 2-for-4 with a double and a triple. Kyler Timmerman also starred, ending 1-for-4 and knocking in both GGC scores.

For the Crusaders, Ryan Lambracht did most of the heavy lifting, going 4-for-5, and Levi Larmour made a habit of bringing runners home as he enjoyed a 3-for-4 outing with three RBIs.

GGC will return to action at Grizzly Baseball Complex on Friday evening against Lindsey Wilson, and first pitch is slated for 7 p.m.

NOTES: The Grizzlies and Head Coach Brad Stromdahl each own 99 career victories ... GGC is 64-19 all-time in home games ... The Grizzlies have a 33-12 all-time record in the month of March ... GGC is now 2-1 vs. the state of Michigan, sweeping a pair of games with Rochester in 2013 ... The Grizzlies are 3-0 vs. Kentucky after picking up a series sweep of Berea last weekend ... Roosevelt will be the second Illinois team that GGC has met this season, taking all four from Lindenwood-Belleville last month ... GGC is 5-1 all-time vs. schools that hail from Illinois ... The Grizzlies are 10-2 in doubleheaders this season, splitting with Blue Mountain and Talladega on the first two Saturdays of the season ... With Roosevelt set to open its 2015 campaign in Lawrenceville, a visiting team has taken on GGC in the first weekend of the season for six consecutive weekends.

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