AMERICUS, Ga. --- The Auburn Montgomery baseball team totaled a season-high 14 runs, highlighted by a nine-run fifth inning, in route to knocking off the Hurricanes of Georgia Southwestern State University 14-6 in midweek action on Wednesday, March 27. 
 
NOTES
- With the win, AUM improves to 16-14 on the season. 
- The Warhawks upped their all-time series advantage to 37-28 over Georgia Southwestern in the victory. 
- Four different Warhawks logged multi-hit performances, while four different players scored multiple runs and four drove in multiple runs. 
- A total of 22 Warhawks saw action in Wednesday's win. 
 
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Grayson Blackwell led AUM at the dish with a team-high three hits and three runs scored. The junior first baseman also drove in two runs and clubbed an extra base hit in the victory.
- Jonathan Brandt notched a game-high three RBI in the win, while adding two hits and a run scored.
- Matthew Zielonko also scored a team-high three runs, in addition to picking up a pair of hits and an RBI.
- Harrison Morris slugged a pair of base hits and drove in one, while Hayden Friesen and Sage Smelley both knocked in a pair of runs on one base hit each. Smelley also scored twice for AUM in the game.  
- Quinterrious Arrington scored twice, registered a hit and an RBI, and stole two bases, pushing his season steal total to 24. 
- Conner Daniels added a hit, while Dalton Cobb and Zach Feaster both came across to score for the Warhawks. 
- Josh Flowers (2-2) earned the win on the mound for the Orange and Black. The senior hurler gave up just one earned over four innings, while striking out three and issuing no free passes. 
- Micah Henderson surrendered just one earned over two innings of relief, while William Gibson and Todd Burkett combined to give up just one hit over the final 2.2 innings of the game. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Warhawks jumped out to a 1-0 lead in their first at-bat, when Blackwell reached base on an error by the Hurricane center fielder with two away that would bring in Zielonko, who reached base one batter earlier on an infield hit to prolong the inning. 
- AUM would go on to add four more runs in the third, to up their lead to 5-0. Zielonko plated the inning's first run on an RBI knock up the middle, while Brandt would account for the inning's big blow with a two-RBI infield hit two batters later. With runners at second and third, Friesen would drive in the inning's final run on an RBI groundout to second. 
- The Warhawks nine-run fifth inning accounted for their most runs in an inning in 2019, and featured six base hits. Six different Warhawks drove in a run in the inning, with Blackwell and Smelley both accounting for two RBI each in the frame. Friesen, Morris, Arrington and Brandt were all also responsible for a run driven in during the inning. 
- After tallying a run in both the fourth and fifth innings, Georgia Southwestern would put a four-spot in the seventh, to trim's the Warhawks deficit to just 14-6. The Hurricanes managed to get just one hit in the inning, despite scoring four runs. 
- The AUM bullpen would batten down the hatches for the final two frames, however, and allow just three base runners and no hits to help put a bow on the win.
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- AUM outhit Georgia Southwestern in the game, 13-8, marking for the Warhawk's third highest hit total in 2019.
- Every starter for the Warhawks either picked up a hit or scored a run in the victory. 
- The Warhawks went 9-30 (.300) with runners on base and converted on 7-9 (.778) chances at the plate with runners at third and less than two outs. 
- The Orange and Black reached base to leadoff an inning in five of nine frames, for a 55 percent efficiency. 
- AUM left 11 runners on base, while the pitching staff stranded 10 Hurricane base runners. 
- Warhawk pitchers held GSW hitters to just a .150 (3-20) average with runners on base in the contest. 

UP NEXT
- The Warhawks will take to the road for a three-game Gulf South Conference weekend series at Valdosta State, with game one on Friday March 29 at 4:30 p.m.
 
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