The Emory University baseball team ended its up-and-down 2009 campaign on a positive note, as the Eagles upset Division II North Georgia College and State University 6-3 in Dahlonega, GA on Tuesday night.

In a mix-and-match day for the pitching staff, sophomore Elliott Coor got the Eagles off to a strong start, pitching three perfect innings before being lifted from the game.  Coor struck out three batters, and left the game with a 1-0 lead after a sacrifice fly from sophomore catcher Jeremy Bolian in the top of the second inning scored Andrew Cohn.

Coor finished the season with a 1-2 record, but allowed just one earned run over his last 19 and a third innings pitched, dating back to March 24th, lowering his ERA to 3.90.

The Eagles would then turn the game over to sophomore Will Matthews who would allow the only North Georgia runs of the game, giving up a three-run home run to the Saints' Brad Hall in the bottom of the fourth. However, the next three Emory pitchers - Adam Genn, Connor McGuiness, and Will Gumm - would each pitch a scoreless inning, combining to allow just one hit and one walk.

The score remained 3-1 heading into the top of the eighth.  Emory's Dan Molnar led the inning off with a base hit, followed by a walk to David Hissey and an RBI single for Steve Bralver to make the score 3-2.  An RBI single for Marc Terranova in the next at bat evened the score.

With two outs and the bases loaded in the inning, Emory would take the lead on a walk to Andrew Carroll, allowing Bralver to score the go-ahead run.  A two-RBI double for Tommy Dugan capped off the five run frame for Emory, and gave the Eagles the 6-3 lead they would hold for the rest of the game.

North Georgia would threaten in the bottom of the eighth inning, loading the bases with nobody out off two walks and a hit from Emory reliever Brian Cournoyer.  However, Cournoyer would strike out the next two batters, and Angelo Prisco would enter the game in relief of Cournoyer and strike the only batter he faced to end the inning.  In his final collegiate appearance, Prisco would be awarded the win in relief, his first victory as an Eagle.

Junior closer Zeb Heidt pitched a perfect ninth inning for his seventh save of the season, the third-best single season total in the program's history.

The eight Emory pitchers in the game combined to allow just three hits during the game, the second-best performance by the staff this season.  Emory allowed just two hits to Centre College on March 24th.

Bralver finished his final collegiate game three-for-four with a run scored and an RBI, giving him 61 on the season, the second-best single season mark in Emory history.  The senior finished the season with a team-best .375 batting average.

Besides Bralver and Prisco, also playing in their final collegiate games were Hissey and Dugan.  Hissey went one-for-three with a run scored, and ends his Emory career with 237 hits, the third-most in school history, and 180 runs scored, the second-best mark in the history of the program.  Dugan went two-for-five in the game with two key RBIs in the contest.

Sophomore Jeremy Bolian added a two-for-two performance with an RBI and a run scored, and finished his season with a .282 batting average.  Bolian raised his average .82 points since March 29th, batting a team-best .387 since that point, almost .60 points higher than any other Eagle during the time period.

The win brings Emory's final record to 24-18 in 2009, while North Georgia fell to 29-23 with the loss.  The game concludes the Eagles' 2009 campaign.