YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. ----- The Auburn Montgomery baseball team clinched their second road series in as many attempts on Sunday on the back of senior
Chase Johnson who threw a complete game in his second start of the season.
NOTES
• AUM improves to 4-6.
• Young Harris falls to 3-7.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
• Johnson notched seven strikeouts, allowing just one earned run on five hits and two free passes in his first career complete game.
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Nathan Langley,
Trevor Flynn and
Michael Tedford each notched two hits and an RBI in the game.
John-Mark Cosby also tallied two singles.
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Donovan Chandler had a single, an RBI and two walks.
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Brandon Davis had a double and three RBI.
• Wall had a home run for the Mountain Lions
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Leading off the top of the second, Cosby reached on his third catcher's interference call this season. The next hitter, Flynn singled to center field.
Houston Davenport laid down a sacrifice bunt to set up an RBI groundout by Davis. This brought up Tedford who sent an 0-2 offering between the third baseman and shortstop to give AUM a 2-0 lead.
• In the next half, Wall sent the first pitch of the inning over the left field fence for the Mountain Lions' only run of the ballgame.
• With two outs and runners on first and third in the top of the third, Flynn singled to left center to extend Auburn Montgomery's lead back out to two.
• In the bottom half of the third inning, a double by Woolfolk and a single by Miller, Johnson was able to escape the runners on the corners jam by getting the next batter to ground out.
• In the top of the seventh, a costly throwing error by the Young Harris pitcher set up a 2 RBI double by Davis to extend the score to 5-1 in favor of AUM.
• After singling early in the inning, Tedford and Langley each scored in the top of the eighth to move the score to 7-1.
• In the top of the ninth, Langley and Chandler each recorded RBI walks to make the score 9-1.
• Young Harris was unable to get anything going in the bottom of the last inning, dropping the contest 9-1, and the series 2-1.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• The Warhawks commit one error in the contest while Young Harris tallied two.
• AUM stranded 12 runners on base while the Mountain Lions stranded just six.
• Every Auburn Montgomery player in the starting lineup recorded a hit on the day.
• Although the Warhawks outhit the Mountain Lions 13-5, each team tallied three-combined extra base hits.
UP NEXT
• The Warhawks will return to action on Tuesday, Feb. 21 when they travel to Albany, Ga. to take on the Golden Rams of Albany State. First pitch is at 3 p.m.
