MONTGOMERY, Ala. --- Four Warhawk pitchers combined to give up just three earned runs, while three different hitters drove in a pair of runs, to help guide the Auburn Montgomery baseball team to a 7-3 midweek win over Georgia Southwestern State University on Tuesday, March 19. 
 
NOTES
- With the win, the Warhawk's record improves to 14-12 on the season.
- AUM improved their all-time series advantage to 36-28 over Georgia Southwestern with the win. 
- The Warhawks scored six of their seven runs in the game from innings four through seven.
 
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Dalton Cobb led AUM at the plate on the night, driving in a team-high two runs, with two base hits and two runs scored. Cobb also clubbed his first homerun as a Warhawk in the victory.
- Grayson Blackwell and Matthew Zielonko both recorded a pair of run's batted in, with Zielonko also adding a run scored. 
- Quinterrious Arrington knocked a pair of base hits, while crossing the plate twice in the game. Arrington also swiped two bases, upping his season total to a GSC-best 21.
- Hayden Friesen and Casey Henderson both tallied a run and a walk, while Sage Smelley added a hit in the game.
- Connor Smith (1-1) notched the win for the Warhawks on the mound. The senior right-hander gave up just one earned over two innings pitched, while using just 24 pitches en route to the victory. 
- Brett Lightsey and Todd Burkett tossed the final four frames of the game, with both getting two scoreless innings of work in on the bump. Four of T. Burkett's six outs came via the punch-out, a new career-high for the senior reliever.
- Josh Flowers tossed the first three innings of the game for the Orange and Black, giving up two earned and striking out one.  
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Georgia Southwestern jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first on a pair of RBI ground outs, but AUM would respond in their first at-bat of the game to cut the Hurricane's lead to just 2-1. A leadoff walk by Arrington, followed by an Arrington steal of second and a sacrifice bunt by Smelley, set the stage for an RBI groundout by Zielonko to cut the Warhawk's deficit in half through one.
- The Warhawks would get their most productive inning on offense in the fourth, pushing across three runs on three hits to grab the lead at 4-2. Cobb plated the first run of the inning on an RBI single up the middle, while Blackwell would deliver the big blow in the frame with a two-run double to left to bring home Cobb and Friesen. 
- After surrendering a run to the Hurricanes in the top of the fifth to bring the score to 3-2, the Warhawks would get that run back in the fifth, courtesy of an RBI-knock from Zielonko through the left side to bring home C. Henderson.
- AUM would scratch two more runs over the next two frames, with Cobb launching his first career AUM homer to left in the sixth, and Arrington scoring on a wild pitch in the seventh.
- The AUM bullpen would keep the Hurricanes relatively quite over the eighth and ninth innings, to give way to the 7-3 final.
 
QUOTING THE COACH
 

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- Warhawk leadoff hitters reached base to start an inning in six of eight frames on the night, for a 75-percent efficiency. 
- The Orange and Black left just four runners on base in the game, while the pitching staff stranded six Hurricane base runners. 
- The AUM staff issued just two free passes in total in the game, with only one walk.
- All three of the Warhawk relievers made quick work of their opponents, with each relief pitcher finishing under 30 pitches total for the night.
- AUM committed just one error in the field, while the Hurricanes posted two on the evening. 
 
UP NEXT
- The Warhawks will kickoff a three-game Gulf South Conference set against the Choctaws of Mississippi College with a single game from the AUM Baseball Complex on Friday, March 22 at 6:00 p.m.
 
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