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14
Winner Auburn-Montgomery AUM 7-4
9
West Alabama UWA 5-4
Winner
Auburn-Montgomery AUM
7-4
14
Final
9
West Alabama UWA
5-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Auburn-Montgomery AUM 7 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 14 22 4
West Alabama UWA 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 9 14 0

W: Micah Hender (1-1) L: Crowley, Kolby (0-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

AUM Explodes Early, Wins Series at UWA

LIVINGSTON, Ala. – Auburn-Montgomery scored seven runs in the first inning and made it stand up on the way to a 14-9 college baseball victory over West Alabama Saturday at Tartt Field.
 
The win handed the opening Gulf South Conference series of the year to the Warhawks, who improved to 7-4, 2-1 in the league. West Alabama lost its first series of the season, falling to 5-4 and 1-2.
 
"It was one of those games where they hit everything we threw," UWA head coach Gary Rundles said. "Everything they hit fell in and we hit some decent balls but couldn't get them to drop in early."
 
Auburn-Montgomery collected 22 hits, with Dalton Cobb leading the way with four. Casey Henderson, Matt Zielonka and Jonathan Brandt had three each apiece. Four more Warhawks had at least two hits. Casey Henderson drive in four runs for AUM and Brandt had three RBI.
 
The Warhawks chased UWA starting pitcher Kolton Crowley after 2.1 innings. Crowley (0-3) absorbed the loss, allowing 12 hits and 10 runs. Four Tiger relievers split up the remaining innings, with Leighton Lary working a scoreless eighth.
 
AUM starter Micah Henderson (1-1) worked six innings for the win, allowing seven hits and two earned runs.
 
After starting with seven runs in the first inning, the Warhawks scored three in the third, two more in the fourth and single runs in seventh and ninth innings.
 
West Alabama picked up an unearned run the second inning and then scored three in the sixth on five hits with Wyatt Ball driving in two on a pinch hit single.
 
Jake Hartman belted his first home run, a solo shot in the eighth inning and then belted a second homer, a three-run blast to the deepest part of the park in a four-run ninth inning for West Alabama. Hartman finished with four runs batted in after entering the game in the seventh inning.
 
"They bright side is we battled and didn't quit and some guys who hadn't played got some game experience," Rundles said. "We will have to see what today does. It can spark something, or it can make you think too much. It was a disappointing series."
 
Trevor Smeeton, JD Roberts, Gavin Rogers, Austin Moffett and Hartman all had two hits in a 14-hit West Alabama attack. Taylor Clemmons extended his hitting streak to six games with a single in the seventh inning.
 
West Alabama continues an eight-game homestand with a doubleheader against Miles on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Auburn-Montgomery is host to Alabama-Huntsville in a single game Wednesday that will not count in the GSC standings.
 
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