MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Junior outfielder Parker Pinholster tallied a career-best four runs batted in against Talladega College on Saturday evening in the final game of the 2019 AUM Invitational, as the Auburn Montgomery softball team notched a 10-0 victory over the Tornadoes in five innings.
 
NOTES
• AUM improves to 9-0 on the season.
• The Tornadoes fall to 0-4 overall.
•The Orange & Black have outscored opponents 84-5 over their first eight games.
• The last time the Warhawks won nine in a row to start the season came during the 2013 campaign, when the Orange & Black won 13 in a row to start the year.
• AUM have scored in the first inning in eight straight games, having also been the team to score first in each contest.
 
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
• Pinholster was 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBI and a run scored. She tallied a double and a pair of singles, stealing two bases in the contest.
• Sophomore Morgan Duschell went 2-for-2 with an RBI, tallying a stolen base. Duschell is now on a 12-game hitting streak dating back to last season.
• Sophomore Caroline Burns was 2-for-2 with a run scored.
• Cydney Sizemore picked up her second win in relief to improve to 2-0 on the season, tossing two shutout innings while striking out three batters.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Pinholster put AUM up 1-0 in the bottom of the first when she hit a single to left field which allowed the speedy Olivia Aycock to score from second.
• The Warhawks put a crooked number up on the scoreboard in the second inning, plating five runs in the frame. Kendall Tucker laid down a sacrifice bunt that plated Jasmine Thompson from third, followed by Hannah Dailey scoring on a wild pitch with the bases loaded. Pinholster then drove in one RBI on a bunt single to third which scored Aycock from third, while also allowing Jaycie Walker to score from second when TC's first baseman was caught off guard by Walker's dash for home after Pinholster's bunt single. Pinholster stole second and then was brought home by a Duschell slap single up the middle to put AUM up 6-0.
• Thompson drew a walk to start the third, then stole second to get into scoring position. Burns then hit an infield single that got Thompson to third, followed by a throwing error by the Tornadoes' shortstop which allowed Thompson to score and Burns to advance to second. With two on and one out, Pinholster hit a double off the left field wall to clear the bases and give the home team a 9-0 advantage.
• AUM added one more in the bottom of the fourth, scoring on a fielding error with runners at second and third to go up 10-0.
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
• AUM scored 10 runs on 10 hits with one error.
• TC notched two hits and committed three errors.
• Starter Chancey Davis fell to 0-1 on the year after allowing six runs on six hits in 1.2 innings of work.
• The Warhawks stole seven bases in the contest.
 
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