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Jacob Horton
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Auburn-Montgomery AUM 17-20
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Winner West Alabama UWA 12-20
Auburn-Montgomery AUM
17-20
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Final
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West Alabama UWA
12-20
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Auburn-Montgomery AUM 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 2
West Alabama UWA 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 4 7 0

W: Peyton Warren (1-3) L: Viets, Hunter (3-7) S: Mason Hollander (3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Jacob Horton

Baseball Edged in Series Opener at West Alabama

LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The Auburn Montgomery baseball team dropped game one of their Gulf South Conference series at West Alabama 4-2 to the Tigers on Friday, April 30 from Tartt Field. 
 
With the loss, AUM's record falls to 17-20 overall and 15-19 in GSC play. West Alabama improves to 12-20 overall and 10-16 in conference action.
 
Five of the game's six runs came via the long ball, with AUM and UWA both slugging two home runs each. Zach Feaster knocked his team-leading fourth homer in the fourth while Landon Pritchett socked his third of the season in the seventh.
 
Hunter Viets (3-7) surrendered just three runs over six innings while striking out eight. Viets gave up just five hits and induced six ground-ball outs in the quality-start defeat.
 
Sam Steigert conceited one run on a pair of hits over two innings of relief out of the AUM bullpen.
 
Joseph Hartsfield posted a team-high two hits on the night, accounting for the Warhawks' other extra base hit with a double in the third. Jackson Ceman also added a hit for AUM.
 
West Alabama cracked the scoreboard in the bottom of the first with a leadoff home run. After stranding Hartsfield at second base with two outs in the third, Feaster's solo blast in the top of the fourth would tie the game up at one-all. 
 
The Tigers would take the lead for good in the fifth on a two-run blast to go up 3-1. AUM would would get their final run of the game in the seventh via Pritchett's solo blast to straight-away center field to make it just 3-2.
 
AUM showed signs of a potential rally in the eighth, getting singles from Ceman and Hartsfield to put runners at the corners with just one away. A pair of strikeouts would put an abrupt end to the late-inning rally, however, and leave both runners stranded.
 
West Alabama would get one more run in the bottom half of the eighth inning before giving way to the 4-2 final score. 
 
The Warhawks will wrap up their series in Livingston with a doubleheader on Saturday, May 1 beginning at 1:00 p.m.

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