The Georgia Gwinnett College baseball program put an exclamation point at the end of the NAIA Opening Round's Lawrenceville Bracket with a convincing 13-0 victory against Point University (Ga.) Wednesday evening at the Grizzly Baseball Complex.

The Grizzlies have qualified for the Avista NAIA World Series for the second time in program history. The tournament will be May 25 through June 1 in Lewiston, Idaho.

GGC (48-10 and ranked No. 2 nationally) outscored its three opponents in the Lawrenceville Bracket by a dominating 33-to-2 margin and had three complete-game pitching performances.

The tournament hosts and No. 1 seed used a big seven-run second inning to take control of the championship game. Junior Jordan Tylski opened the scoring with a two-run double down the right field line. A sacrifice bunt from freshman Walter Coursey added another run. Back-to-back extra-base hits from senior Marcus McCorkle and junior Alex Garlandextended GGC's lead to 5-0. Junior Onassis Matos capped the scoring with a two-run double.

The team added a run in each of the sixth and seventh innings before scoring four times in the eighth inning.

Junior pitcher Hunter Peck allowed just three hits across nine innings and improved to 11-0 on the season. The left hander faced two batters over the minimum (27 batters) in the shutout pitching performance.

Offensively, the top of the batting order got the job done for Georgia Gwinnett College. Ballard went 3-for-5, with two runs scored, as the leadoff batter, while Coursey went 4-for-5, and McCorkle and Garland had two hits apiece from the 2-3-4 spots in the team's batting order.

Matos and junior Brandon Frazier also had collected multiple-hit performances in the 19-hit offensive attack.

GGC also won the NAIA Opening Round in 2014 to qualify for the NAIA World Series.

Turning Point

The scoring floodgates were opened for Georgia Gwinnett College in the second inning. Junior Jordan Tylski started things with a double past Point's first baseman and down the right field line. That brought home junior Brandon Frazierand freshman Cord Johnson. GGC added five more runs in the inning.

Key Plays

Bottom of Second

Jordan Tylski hit a two-run double down the right field line to open the team's seven-run inning

Marcus McCorkle connected on a RBI triple to give GGC a 4-0 lead

Alex Garland followed with a run-scoring double

Onassis Matos capped the team's big offensive inning with a two-run double

Bottom of Sixth

Brandon Frazier lined a run-scoring double to bring home Alex Garland

Bottom of Eighth

Marcus McCorkle hit a RBI single to bring home Jordan Tylski for the final run of the game

By The Numbers

• GGC outhit the Skyhawks 19-to-3 in the victory
• The Grizzlies outscored the three opponents in the Lawrenceville Bracket 33-to-2, including two shutouts
• Hunter Peck registered nine strikeouts in the shutout
• Six players had multiple-hit efforts for the Grizzlies

News & Notes

• Georgia Gwinnett College improves to 48-10 on the season; Point ends the 2018 season at 37-25
• GGC is ranked No. 2 in the final regular-season NAIA Top 25 poll
• The Grizzlies used only three pitchers in winning the three games in the Opening Round
• Georgia Gwinnett College is going to its second Avista NAIA World Series in program history (2014)

Up Next

Georgia Gwinnett College will play in the Avista NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho, from May 25 to June 1. The national office will announce the tournament's bracket after the conclusion of the nine NAIA Opening Round tournaments.