MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Auburn Montgomery Baseball Team scored a combined 21 runs and got a pair of complete-game performances on the mound from Andrew Cronan and Luke Turner to take both games of a Gulf South Conference doubleheader on Sunday, March 13 against Mississippi College.
 
The Warhawks took game one 12-2 in seven innings and won game two 9-3. The pair of victories improves AUM's record to 14-9 overall and 4-4 in GSC action.

The game-two win marked for Head Coach Marty Lovrich's 200th at the helm of AUM Baseball. Lovrich currently sports a career record 200-154 in eight seasons as head coach for the Warhawks. 
 
GAME ONE
Brody Syer logged a game-high four RBI's in game one, including a three-run blast in the third. Joseph Hartsfield knocked a game-high two base hits while Kasey Clark and Jackson Ceman each drove in a pair of runs.
 
Zach Dew slugged a solo home run in the second inning of game one while Nick Freeman and Clayton Phillips each accounted for two runs and a hit. Zach Feaster additionally added an RBI.
 
Andrew Cronan (4-1) needed just 64 pitches to earn the complete-game win. The junior righty gave up just one earned run while striking out a pair and inducing nine ground-ball outs.
 
AUM struck first in game one on Dew's solo shot in the bottom of the second. MC followed in their next at bat with two runs, taking advantage of a Warhawk throwing error on a fielder's choice that saw two runs come across the plate.
 
The Choctaws' lead didn't last long, however. AUM responded its next time up in the bottom of the third with a three-run blast from Syer, his third homer of the season, to go back up 4-2. A pair of walks from Ceman and Feaster helped set up the opportunity.

The Warhawks would go on to get a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth on a wild pitch then an RBI hit batsman from Syer, followed by a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth on an MC fielding error and a Ceman RBI single to left.
 
AUM was able to tally the four runs needed in the bottom of the seventh to earn the run-rule victory. A bases-loaded walk from Ceman, followed by a two-RBI single from Clark set the stage for Feaster to drive in the game's final run via fielder's choice to give way to the 12-2 final score.
 
GAME TWO
Syer once again drove in the most runs with three RBI's on a pair of hits in game two. Dew, Hartsfield, and Ceman all also knocked a pair of hits with Dew driving in two runs and Hartsfield driving in one. Ceman scored a game-high two runs in the win.
 
Jackon Murphy, Jaylon Thornton, and Phillips all drove in a run while Freeman scored twice with one hit.
 
Luke Turner (3-0) tossed all seven innings for AUM en route to the victory. Turner gave up just three runs while striking out one and walking none.
 
AUM jumped on the Choctaws early by scoring six runs on five hits in the bottom of the first. A two-RBI single from Dew, an RBI groundout from Thornton, RBI doubles from Hartsfield and Murphy, and an RBI single from Phillips accounted for the damage done in the frame.
 
MC would go on to crack the scoreboard with an RBI double in the second and an RBI groundout in the fourth to trim AUM's lead to 6-2, but the Warhawks would answer back in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single to right from Syer to go up 7-2.
 
An RBI single from the Choctaws in the top of the sixth made the score 7-3, but Syer would once again deliver in the bottom of the sixth with a pair of insurance runs on a two-run single to put AUM up 9-3 before giving way to the final score.
 
The Warhawks will play the third and final game of their GSC series against the Choctaws on Monday, March 14 at 4:00 p.m. from Q.V. Lowe Field.
 
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