AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the third consecutive night a shutout was pitched at Lake Olmstead Stadium with the Augusta GreenJackets (41-28, 2-2) falling to the Asheville Tourists (46-24, 2-2) 7-0 on Sunday.

Starter Craig Clark suffered the loss and Thomas Neal had two of Augusta’s four hits in the game.

Asheville jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the third inning with the help of four consecutive singles to start the inning. Kevin Clark drove in the first run with an RBI single for a 1-0 lead. Darin Holcomb came up next with the bases loaded and reached on catcher’s interference to force in another run for Asheville. Brian Rike capped off the scoring with an RBI sac-fly.

The Tourists added a single run in the fourth inning when David Christensen led off the frame with a solo-homer to left field, his seventh of the season.

Asheville made it 5-0 in the fifth inning on a one-out RBI single from Holcomb to chase Clark from the game.

Clark (5-1) worked 4.1 innings allowing five runs, four earned, on seven hits. The lefty also walked one and struck out three.

The Tourists added two more runs in eighth inning off of reliever Wilmin Rodriguez for a 7-0 lead. Rodriguez began the inning walking four straight to force in the first run. Then with Dan Turpen in relief, a wild pitch scored the second run to end the scoring for the day.