CARTERSVILLE – Playing in their third Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association game in three days, the ABAC Stallions saw their baseball season end Wednesday. But their final record-setting game proves they did not go quietly.

ABAC scored 13 runs on 17 hits, but couldn’t tame the South Georgia State offense and lost 18-13 in the tournament’s third round. The 31 runs scored set a conference tournament record (set two days earlier in South Georgia’s 15-14 win over Andrew College). ABAC finished the year at 19-31.

The Stallions trailed early the season finale after the Hawks scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning. A C.J. Rose home run (his third in two days) got one of those runs back in the top of the second before ABAC exploded for five runs in the top of the third to take a 6-5 lead. Most of the damage was done on first baseman Chasin Cash’s mammoth grand slam over the left field wall, which provided the one-run lead.

But the advantage was short-lived. South Georgia State erupted in the bottom of the frame on just three hits as two walks, two batters hit by pitches, and a costly error. The Hawks sent 13 batters to the plate during the third and when the carnage was over, they had retaken the lead at 12-6.

But the Stallions did not relent. An RBI double by Cameron Campbell was followed by an RBI single from Cash in the top of the fifth to make it 12-8 and the Stallions added two more in the sixth. Harrison Childers had an RBI double before Wyatt Talik’s two-run homer tied the game at 13-13.

But that was all ABAC could muster. The Hawks put together another big inning in the eighth, scoring five runs while reliever Gavin Mask shut down the Stallions in the final two innings to notch the win.

Rose had another big day with three hits while Campbell, Cash, Childers, Talik, and Joe Cooney had two hits each.