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Adam Chamblee
Joe Chance
5
West Georgia UWG 33-12
7
Winner West Alabama UWABS 33-12
West Georgia UWG
33-12
5
Final
7
West Alabama UWABS
33-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
West Georgia UWG 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 5 14 1
West Alabama UWABS 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 X 7 8 0

W: Anderson, Evan (8-1) L: Mitchell Mannino (2-2) S: Pennington, Brandon (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Tigers Beat West Georgia, 7-5, Win GSC Series on Senior Day

LIVINGSTON, Ala. – Seven of 10 West Alabama seniors played key roles as the Tigers defeated West Georgia in Gulf South Conference baseball, 7-5, on Senior Day Sunday at Tartt Field.
 
No. 28 West Alabama improved to 33-12 overall and 21-9 in GSC play with the series win. West Georgia, ranked No. 23, is also 33-12, but 19-11 in the conference. The Wolves had won 15 straight games coming into the series.
 
Four of five senior position players drove in runs for the Tigers and the other, Jake Bush, ripped a pair of doubles, in their final home game at Tartt Field. Tiger starting pitcher Josh Jones did not figure in the decision after working 4.1 innings and striking out three, but reliever Brandon Pennington worked a scoreless ninth for his second save.
 
Bush led off the second inning with his first double and scored when Luigi Mendez drew a bases-loaded walk. Adam Chamblee made it back-to-back bases-loaded walks as the Tigers jumped to a 3-0 lead after two innings.
 
A two-run homer by Drew Eady in the fourth inning pulled West Georgia to within 3-2, but UWA added two more in the bottom of the inning when Dylan Little and Chamblee scored in front of a triple by Davis Aiken.
 
The Wolves scored three runs on four hits in the top of the fifth to tie the game, but Jack Cockrum's sacrifice fly and an RBI single off the bat of Mitch Holgate in the sixth provided the final margin.
 
Evan Anderson (8-1) allowed two hits and struck out two over 2.2 scoreless innings in relief of Jones to pick up the pitching win. The fourth of six West Georgia pitchers, Mitchell Mannino (2-2), absorbed the loss.
 
Holgate, Bush and Little had two hits each in an eight-hit West Alabama attack. Eady and Cade Marlow had three hits apiece for West Georgia. Caleb Lopes and Tyler Hutch had two hits each for the Wolves.
 
West Alabama concludes the regular season with a three-game GSC series at Alabama Huntsville (30-16, 20-10) next weekend, beginning with a doubleheader Saturday at 2 p.m. West Georgia has a four-game homestand to close the regular season with Georgia Southwestern visiting on Tuesday and Union (19-24, 11-18) coming in for a three-game series on the weekend.
 
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