DAHLONEGA -- No. 14 University of North Georgia (UNG) baseball senior pitcher Dylan Noce has been named as the Peach Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week per an announcement from the league office Monday afternoon.

This is Noce's first career weekly honor from the conference office as he becomes the eighth Nighthawk to win the 11th weekly award from the PBC this season. All three UNG starting pitchers have now won the award this season and the team's 11 total honors this year are far and away the most of any program in the league.

Noce was given this week's honor after a stellar performance in the regular season finale. He pitched 6.1 scoreless innings with four scattered hits and four strikeouts to help the Nighthawks secure a 3-0 win at Georgia College, clinching the 2025 PBC Regular-season Championship in the process.

Noce showed impressive poise as he pitched out of numerous jams in the all-or-nothing title game. 

In the first inning, he conceded back-to-back one-out walks, but escaped the inning with a groundout and a strikeout. 

In the second, GCSU recorded a walk and a single in consecutive at bats, once again putting runners at first and second base with one out. This time Noce struck out the first batter and then got a pop up from the next to prevent any runs from scoring.

The Bobcats had a better opportunity to score in the third inning as a lead-off single and hit batter put the first two runners on base with nobody out. Evan Cowan laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move the runners into scoring position. 

At risk of allowing GCSU to tie the game with a base hit, Noce calmly mitigated the threat with back-to-back weak pop ups to end the inning.

Noce ended the fourth inning in thrilling fashion as a 5-4-3 double play nixed a lead-off single. 

Time and again Noce was put in a high-pressure situation Sunday and he delivered in each instance. 

Now Noce and the Nighthawks will prepare to host the 2025 PBC Tournament this upcoming weekend. Top-seeded UNG takes on eighth-seeded Augusta in the quarterfinals on Friday, May 2 at 11 a.m. from Bob Stein Stadium at Lynn Cottrell Park.