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Gary Rundles 900 doused
Joe Chance
1
Union UU 14-12
3
Winner West Alabama UWABS 25-5
Union UU
14-12
1
Final
3
West Alabama UWABS
25-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Union UU 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 1
West Alabama UWABS 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 3 6 0

W: Rosati, Anthony (2-1) L: Teddy Christie (3-2) S: Sanders, Austin (6)

1
Union UU 14-13
9
Winner West Alabama UWABS 26-5
Union UU
14-13
1
Final
9
West Alabama UWABS
26-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Union UU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 1
West Alabama UWABS 6 1 0 0 2 0 X 9 13 0

W: Anderson, Evan (7-1) L: Skyler Harrison (3-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Rundles Wins 900th as UWA Sweeps Union

LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The West Alabama baseball team handed head coach Gary Rundles his 900th career victory with a 3-1 win in game one, then put an exclamation point on the Gulf South Conference series by beating Union 9-1 in the second game of the doubleheader on Saturday to sweep the series from the Bulldogs Saturday at Tartt Field.
 
The three-game sweep lifts No. 4 West Alabama to 26-5 overall, 15-3 in GSC play. Union dropped to 14-13 and 8-8.
 
"900 wins as a college coach is a tribute to every player who ever played for me and every assistant coach who has ever been on one of my staffs," Rundles said. "Head coaches are only as good as the people they surround themselves with and I have been very fortunate to have a lot of good folks around me for the last 29 years."
 
In the three-game series eight Tiger pitchers allowed just four runs. The UWA staff limited the Bulldogs to just 13 hits and three earned runs in 25 innings pitched for a series earned run average of 1.08. UWA pitchers combined for 23 strikeouts and walked just seven over the three games.
 
West Alabama stretched six hits about as far as they would go to win the opener, 3-1, in a battle of the two pitching staffs. Anthony Rosati (2-1) went 5.1 innings to earn the win, allowing just a run on three hits, but middle reliever Jonathan Porter cleaned up a bases-loaded, one out mess in the sixth by getting a strikeout and ground ball to preserve Rosati's victory. Austin Sanders worked the ninth for his sixth save. Union starter Teddy Christi (3-2) took the loss despite allowing just two earned runs in 7.1 innings.
 
Evan Anderson (7-1) allowed just three hits, walked one and struck out seven for the win the second game. Brandon Pennington worked a scoreless inning as well. Union starter Skyler Harrison (3-2) didn't make it out of the first inning on the way to the loss.
 
After getting just six hits in the first game, two of those from Nick Delgado, the Tigers got six hits and scored six runs in the first inning of the second game to chase Harrison. Davis Aiken started the hit parade with a leadoff triple then Jack Cockrum, Jake Bush, Luigi Mendez and Josh Winningham all had RBI singles in the frame.
 
Two more hits produced a run in the second to stretch the lead to 7-0 before Zach Phillips hit a solo home run for Union to lead off the fifth, his third of the year. Marcus Morrisette hit his second homer of the year for West Alabama, a two run shot in the fifth to account for the final margin in game two.
 
Mitch Holgate and Delgado both got a combined three hits in the two games. Dylan Moore had three hits in the twinbill for Union.
 
West Alabama takes the week off before getting back into GSC play with a three-game series at Lee on Saturday and Sunday.
 
 
 
 
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