With play in the Lawrenceville Bracket backed up into the evening due to a morning rain delay, the top-seeded Georgia Gwinnett baseball team (56-4) used timely hitting and a terrific pitching outing to defeat fifth-seeded British Columbia by a 3-0 score in Tuesday's finale on the opening day of the NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round in Lawrenceville.

Senior Davis Adkins improved to 14-0 on the year on the mound, tossing the first seven scoreless innings of a combined shutout.

The Grizzlies managed just four hits offensively in the game but strung together all the offense they would need during a three-run fourth inning.

British Columbia (39-21) starter Curtis Taylor struck out 12 batters to round out a pair of quality outings from each starting pitcher.

After going hitless over the first three innings, the Grizzlies capitalized on their chances in the fourth. Marcus McCorkle put GGC up 1-0 with an RBI single while William Paschal doubled the lead with an RBI double. Trevor Bradley then added an RBI single to make it 3-0.

The Thunderbirds loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning, but Adkins ended the threat with a groundout to second base.

Adkins tossed 7.0 scoreless innings for the Grizzlies, allowing just three hits and striking out five. Reliever Tyler Souris pitched the eighth while Will Solomon earned his fourth save of the year with a perfect ninth inning.

The British Columbia offense mustered just four hits as well.

Tuesday's win puts the Grizzlies in a 2:30 p.m. winner's bracket contest on Wednesday against second-seeded IU Southeast (Ind.), the only other remaining unbeaten squad in the five-team Lawrenceville Bracket.

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