DANVILLE, Va. – The Greensboro College baseball team dropped its final two games of a three-game set with Averett University Saturday in USA South Athletic Conference play.
 
The Pride dropped Game 1, 17-6, before suffering an 8-6 defeat in Game 2.
 
Greensboro jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of Game 1. Adam Murray plated Zach Neumeister and James Wilkins with a double to right field before coming in to score on an Edward Mililian single.
 
The Cougars struck for four runs in the second inning to take a 4-3 lead.
 
The Pride then scored one run in the third and fourth innings to retake the lead at 5-4 on RBIs by Bram Johnson and Murray.
 
The Cougars answered with five runs in the sixth inning.
 
Murray recorded the Pride's final RBI of the game in the eighth inning before the Pride fell by the 11-run margin.
 
Neumeister finished with a team-high four hits, while Johnson and Mililian also recorded multiple hits. Josh Evans took the loss for Greensboro.
 
After taking Game 1, the Cougars struck first in Game 2 with two runs in the first inning.
 
Greensboro scored four times over the next two innings. J.P. Lisk and Johnson recorded one RBI each in the second inning, while Brian Robbett tallied an RBI in the third inning before coming in to score on a wild pitch.
 
Averett then scored the game's next five runs before Greensboro scored its final two runs in the ninth inning, falling by the two-run margin.
 
Brandon Soden went 4-for-4 at the plate for Greensboro, while Robbett, Neumeister, and Lisk accounted for six hits. Aaron Brown took the loss for the Pride in relief of Dustin Minnick.
 
"The boys played with energy and competed the entire weekend," Head Coach Frank Maldonado said. "We just ran into a team that has been playing very well."
 
The Pride will return to action at 3 p.m. Tuesday when they travel to St. Andrews University. For more information on Greensboro College baseball, continue to follow www.greensborocollegesports.com.