CARROLLTON, Ga. – West Georgia took advantage of 10 hits and seven West Alabama errors to defeat the Tigers, 12-1, in college baseball Thursday at Cole Field.
 
West Georgia improved to 5-0 with the win. No. 24 West Alabama dropped to 1-3. The Wolves and Tigers finish the three-game non-conference series with a Friday doubleheader starting at noon CST.
 
UWG starter Andres Fernandez (1-0) worked five innings to earn the pitching win and Dalton Reagin picked up a four-inning save, his first of the year. West Alabama starter Cole Waites (0-2), the first of six UWA pitchers, was tagged with the loss.
 
Fernandez allowed just two hits and one run while striking out four and walking one. Regain worked four shutout innings, allowing two hits and striking out four. Waites gave up two runs while walking three and striking out four.
 
Only four of the 12 runs allowed by West Alabama pitchers were earned. The Tigers were just two errors shy of the school single-game record.
 
West Alabama got on the scoreboard first when Austin Moffett led off the game with a triple and then scored on a wild pitch. Moffett's triple was his fourth extra base hit in as many games. He has all of the Tigers' extra base hits through four games this season.
 
West Georgia took the lead by scoring two runs in the bottom of the third inning when Nick Poskey drew a bases-loaded walk to score Ben Utley and Christopher Michals lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that chased Cade Marlowe.
 
The Wolves added single runs in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings to gradually salty the game away.
 
Utley doubled to score Tucker Breen in the fourth. Price Peters singled in Poskey in the fifth and Utley scored on a UWA throwing error in the sixth after reaching on a base on balls. Michals singled and scored on a double down the left field line by Peters in the seventh.
 
West Georgia wasn't done, however. The Wolves tacked on six more runs in the bottom of the eighth on three hits, three Tiger errors, three walks and a hit batsman.
 
Moffett, Luke Phillips, Ben Dalke and Jake Hartman had the four UWA hits.
 
Marlowe and Peters both had three hits for the Wolves, followed by Utley with two. Poskey drove in three runs.