MONTGOMERY, Ala. --- The Auburn Montgomery baseball team pounded out eight runs on five hits in inning number three en route to a 10-6 victory over Talladega College on Monday, March 9 from QV Lowe Field.
 
NOTEWORTHY
- The win brings AUM's 2020 record to 8-12 overall.
- The victory over the Tornadoes brings the Warhawks' all-time advantage to 47-8 against Talladega College. 
 
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Matthew Marfice and Quinterrious Arrington both drove in a game-high two runs on two hits, with Marfice scoring twice and slugging a pair of doubles. 
- Dalton Cobb posted a game-high three base hits, with a pair of runs scored and an RBI. Cobb's three-hit performance extended his current hitting streak to 18 games. 
- Ko Powell accounted for a hit, a run and an RBI, while Corey Armstrong added a run and an RBI.
- Mario Galloway (1-0) logged his first career win for the Warhawks on the mound, tossing three scoreless innings out of the bullpen. Galloway surrendered just one hit while striking out three. 
- Sam Steigert (1) tossed the final four innings of relief to nab his first save of 2020. The junior submariner struck out a season-high six batters and surrendered no earned runs. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Talladega College jumped out to a 4-0 lead after their first two at-bats, after notching a pair on a fielding error and an RBI hit-by-pitch in the first and scoring on an RBI single and successfully stealing of home in the second. 
- After tallying their first run of the game in the second inning on a past ball, the Warhawk offense erupted for their highest single-inning run total of the season with an eight-spot in the third inning. AUM's first two runs of the frame came across on a throwing error by the Tornadoes, followed by an RBI fielder's choice from Armstrong, an RBI double by Marfice, a two-RBI single from Arrington and RBI knocks from Powell and Cobb to give way to the 9-4 score. 
- AUM added their final run of the game in the sixth, via a Marfice RBI hit batsman.
- The Tornadoes fought back in their final at-bat, scoring runs on an AUM fielding error and an RBI single to right, but Steigert was able to slam the door shut with runners on the corners to give way to the 10-6 final.
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- Four Warhawk hitters tallied AUM's eight total hits, with three AUM players logging a multi-hit effort.
- Warhawk pitching finished just one off their season-high with 11 strikeouts, while also inducing 11 ground-ball outs in the contest. 
- A total of 21 free passes were issued out on the mound, with Talladega College totaling 12 (eight walks, four hit batsmen).
- AUM left eight runners on base, while the pitching staff stranded 10 Tornado baserunners. 
 
UP NEXT
- The Warhawks will be back in action on Saturday, March 14 with a Gulf South Conference doubleheader against Alabama-Huntsville beginning at 3:00 p.m. from QV Lowe Field.
 
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