MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The AUM baseball team had its biggest power production of the season, hitting five home runs and scoring 12 runs in a 14-12 loss to Shorter at QV Lowe Field on Tuesday.
 
Third baseman Kyle Hipp went 3-for-4 with two home runs, five RBI and three runs scored. First baseman Riley Orr also hit a home run as part of his three hits, four RBI and two runs.
 
AUM dropped to 4-10 on the season. Shorter improved to 9-5.
 
Coy Martin earned the win and Simon Aluko worked the final two innings for the save. Tyson Tubbs was saddled with the loss.
 
Shorter got on the board first, putting two runners in scoring position with one out before Micah Jefferies scored on a Will Fincher fly out.
 
In the home-half of the third, Landon Baeder doubled and then scored when Hipp deposited a Derek Atkinson offering over the wall to put AUM ahead 2-1. Orr followed three pitches later with a blast to the same spot for a 3-1 lead.
 
The Hawks regained the lead with three runs in the fourth on three-consecutive hits. Tyler Zawacki led off with a single and scored on an Alex Brodie double. Ajay Jones then belted a go-ahead, 2-run home run to center.
 
Jones came up an inning later with the bases loaded and drove in a pair on a single through the right side, extending the Shorter lead to 6-3.
 
The Warhawks battled back to 6-5 with two in the fifth when Hipp crushed another 2-run ball to left center.
 
Shorter put five more on the board in the sixth on a pair of extra-base hits and a home run. Jefferies scored from first on a Fincher double. Fincher and Zawacki scored two batters later on Alex Brodie triple to right center. 2-run HR
 
AUM tied it up with a 6-spot in the sixth. The Orange and Black got back-to-back home runs from Cliff Wysinger and Alex Hotaling in the sixth, marking the first career jacks for each of the true freshmen. Orr hit a bases-loaded double to pull within 11-10 and scored a batter later on a Tunnell roller through the right side.
 
SU scored two in the seventh to go up 13-11.
 
Hipp continued his hot hitting, driving in Hotaling on a single in the seventh, trimming the deficit to 13-12.
 
Julian Sauger drove in Ajay Jones on a sacrifice fly to left in the eighth.
 
AUM will continue its homestand this Friday against Lee. The first game of the 3-game set will begin at 5 p.m.