ATLANTA -- Senior Brandon Hill homered and freshman left-hander Cameron Jones closed his second straight victory as Georgia State improved to 2-0 with a 7-5 victory over St. John's in the Atlanta Challenge at the GSU Baseball Complex.
Hill's two-run homer, his first, gave the Panthers (2-0) a 7-2 lead after three innings. After St. John's inched closed with two runs in the fourth and one in the sixth, Jones came on with on one and no outs in the eight and recorded the final six outs for his first save, allowing just one hit with one walk and one strikeout The rookie from Houston County High School, the younger brother of former GSU shortstop Justin Jones, earned the victory in Friday's walk-off win as he finished the game with 1.