MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Auburn Montgomery baseball team opened up their 2021 campaign on Sunday, Feb. 7 with a pair of losses to the West Georgia Wolves. AUM fell 8-3 in game one and 6-4 in game two.
 

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GAME ONE
Casey Henderson led AUM on offense with two base hits. Corey Armstrong and Mario Galloway both logged an RBI, while Zach Feaster, Ethan Wells and Jackson Ceman all scored a run.
 
Troy Jones (0-1) took the loss on the mound for AUM. The senior right-hander surrendered three earned over four innings of work while striking out five. Shelton Clevenger, Tyler Britton, Sam Steigert, Jax Morris, and Jake Chase combined to throw the final four frames for AUM.
 
West Georgia tallied the game's first six runs, scoring one in the third, two in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the seventh. 
 
The Warhawks would eventually score their first run of the game in the 7th, when Ceman came in to score via a UWG throwing error. 
 
AUM would go on to tally two more runs in the seventh to make it a 6-3 game. A two-out RBI single from Armstrong, followed by an RBI base on balls from Galloway would account for the damage. 
 
West Georgia would respond in their next at bat, however, when a crucial fielding error by AUM led to two more Wolf runs and the final 8-3 score. 
 
The Warhawks left a total of nine runners on base in game one and went 7-32 with runners on base.
 
 

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GAME TWO
Landon Pritchett posted a team-high three hits in game two, with a pair of runs scored and an RBI. 
 
Grayson Blackwell and Smelley both also drove in a run in the game, while C. Henderson accounted for his second multi-hit game of the day.
 
Hunter Viets (0-1) took the loss on the mound for AUM in game two. Viets gave up four runs over 5.1 innings and struck out five batters. Logan Coleman logged four strikeouts over 1.2 innings of relief work, while Will Collins and Tommy Vickers both tossed a scoreless inning of relief. 
 
The Wolves jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first, but AUM would respond with a run of their own in the next half inning on an RBI ground from Pritchett to plate C. Henderson to make it 2-1.
 
After tying the score in the second inning at two-all on a dropped fly ball by the Wolves, the Warhawks would surrender three runs on three hits, with one error in the top of the third, to see UWG go back on top 5-2. 
 
AUM responded in the seventh, however, with a pair of runs from a Blackwell RBI single, and a Smelley RBI double down the left-field line to make the score 5-4 in favor of UWG.
 
West Georgia would go on to add an insurance run in the eighth, giving way to the 6-4 final.
 
The Warhawks stranded a total of 12 base runners in game two, including four innings in which two or more Warhawks were left on base. 
 
AUM committed a total of eight errors on the day that led to three unearned Wolf runs. 
 
The Warhawks will be back in action on Monday, Feb. 8 when they play game three of their Gulf South Conference series with West Georgia. First pitch from Q.V. Lowe Field is set for 2:00 p.m.
 
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