MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Auburn University at Montgomery baseball team scored four runs in the bottom of the second inning and six runs in the bottom of the seventh en route to a 10-4 game three win over Union University to capture the team's first series sweep of the season.
AUM stole game one 6-5 in walk-off fashion, clubbed three home runs in a 10-3 win in game two, and used a pair of crooked innings to again notch double-digit runs to take game three of the weekend.
FROM THE DUGOUT
Score: AUM 10, UU 4
Records: AUM 18-14 (12-6 GSC) | UU 12-17 (6-12 GSC)
Location: Montgomery, Ala. | Q.V. Lowe Field
Series: AUM leads 23-10
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HIGHLIGHTS
- RH Frankland tripled down the right field line to put AUM up 1-0 in the second frame.
- Ceman added an RBI single, Tunnel doubled home another run, and Tyrese Rooks rolled a single up the middle to help build a 4-0 lead after two innings.
- Union scored a run in the fifth and the sixth inning to trim the lead in half.
- The Warhawks erupted for six runs in the last of the seventh inning to blow the game open.
- After Zach Dew and Ashton Thomas both singled home a run, Jackson Ceman delivered a two-RBI base knock up the middle to give AUM some breathing room.
- The Bulldogs then committed an error that plated Ceman and Thomas and put the orange and black up 10-2.
- Union scored two late runs, but it was too little too late as the Warhawks capped off the series sweep.
ON THE MOUND
- Clay Slagle logged five innings to pick up the win. He allowed one run and scattered five hits against a pair of strikeouts.
- Grant Hickman did not allow a hit in two innings of relief. Hickman yielded one run and struck out a pair.
- Brett Pitts finished the contest on the bump for AUM. He gave up four hits and one walk with three strikeouts.
NOTABLES
- Ceman (eighth), Wright (seventh), Frankland (sixth), and Thomas (third) all registered multi-hit efforts in game three.
- Ceman drove in a game-high three runs, his fifth multi-RBI game of the campaign.
- Dew's RBI single up the middle in the seventh inning extended his hitting streak to 11 games, tied for the longest streak of the year by a Warhawk.
- Rooks upped his hitting streak to seven games and his reached-base streak to a team-high 12 games in a row.
- The game marked the seventh win of the season in which the Warhawks scored double-digit runs.
UP NEXT
- The Warhawks head to Columbus, Ga. for a midweek contest against Columbus State University on Tuesday, March 26 at 3 p.m. CT.
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