MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Auburn University at Montgomery baseball team used a four-spot in the last of the ninth inning to secure a 7-6 win on the front end of a doubleheader, capped by a Brody Syer three-run home run, but ultimately fell in the series to Lee University as the Flames won the second game of the day 5-3.

FROM THE DUGOUT

GM 1 Score: AUM 7, LEE 6
GM 2 Score: AUM 3, LEE 5
Records: AUM 7-13 (4-5 GSC) | LEE 10-9 (4-3 GSC)
Location: Montgomery, Ala. | Q.V. Lowe Field
Series: AUM trails 33-19
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HIGHLIGHTS (GM 1)

• Solo home runs in the second and third innings, from Riley Black and Malachi Cloud, gave the visitors a 2-0 lead.
• Kasey Clark answered in the fourth inning as he belted a two-run homer to right, his second of the year, to tie the game 2-2.
• A Cam Suto two-RBI single up the middle sparked a three-run sixth inning for Lee, and Black added an RBI double to make it 6-2 Flames in the eighth.
• A sacrifice fly from Clark in the eighth plated Cole McWhorter and got a run back for the Warhawks to make it 6-3 heading to the ninth.
• After Zach Dew singled to short, Brook Brannon worked a one-out walk to put two runners on ahead of Syer. On an 0-1 pitch, the left-handed hitting Syer promptly clubbed a three-run homer the opposite way as AUM stole game one 7-6.

ON THE MOUND (GM 1)

• Clay Slagle worked 5.1 innings and gave up four runs, all earned, on four hits. He allowed just two hits and struck out three. 
• Daniel Swatek allowed a run on two hits with two strikeouts in two-thirds of an inning.
• Michael Myers (1-2) earned the win with 3.0 innings of relief work in which he allowed a single run on three hits with three strikeouts.

• The Flames again found early offense, with a Josiah Miller RBI single in the first and an Isaac Quinones solo home run to left staking Lee to a 2-0 lead after two. 
• Lee tacked on another Miller RBI single in the fifth before a two-run home run by Brandon Daniels made it 5-0 Lee.
• Clayton Phillips added an RBI groundout in the bottom of the fifth and Freeman scored on a wild pitch to get a pair of runs back for AUM and make it 5-2 heading to the seventh.
• Zach Dew's seventh-inning RBI single brought AUM a run closer, but the Flames extinguished the comeback attempt by the Warhawks to capture the series win.

• Grant Hickman logged five innings of relief that saw him battle back-and-forth with Lee starter Jack Nedrow.
• Hickman gave up just one earned run, four total, and walked one batter against 11 strikeouts for AUM.
• Jack Nedrow tossed a complete game for Lee in getting his third win of the season. He gave up three runs on six hits with six strikeouts. 

NOTABLES

• Hickman's 11 strikeouts are a season-high for any Warhawk pitcher, and he retired seven batters looking at strike three. Hickman leads the team with 32 strikeouts in 19 innings of relief work.
• Clark added his second home run of the season in game one, while he smacked his team-leading eighth double of the campaign in game two.
• Syer added his third homer and seventh multi-RBI game in game one, both tops on the team.
• Dew ran his hitting streak to 12 games and his reached base streak to 19 games with a 3-for-7 day that included an RBI and two runs scored.

UP NEXT

AUM welcomes Georgia Southwestern State University to Q.V. Lowe Field on Tuesday, March 7 with a scheduled first pitch at 4 p.m.

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