PENSACOLA, Fla. – The AUM baseball team played small ball to come away with a doubleheader sweep of No. 25 West Florida at Jim Spooner Field on Friday afternoon. The Warhawks never trailed in a 5-4 win in the first game before scoring two in the sixth inning of the 7-inning contest for a 3-2 victory.
 
AUM (10-23, 7-13 Gulf South) claimed its second series win of the season and second-consecutive series besting of UWF. The Warhawks will go for the sweep at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning.
 
AUM outhit UWF in both games – 11-to-10 and 9-to-5 – extending its current stretch to four games in doing so. Tyrese Rooks and Riley Orr each had three hits for the Warhawks.
 
UWF (19-12, 13-7) lost just its second league series of the season and had its string of five-straight series wins snapped.
 
Game One – AUM 5, No. 25 UWF 4
Ryan Slaten (1-1) took the mound and went five innings to hold the UWF offense at bay, leaving with a 4-2 lead after striking out four while allowing five hits en route to his first win of the season. Charlie Bagwell, Payte Williams and Brett Pitts all got multiple outs from the bullpen, with Pitts earning his third save by retiring the final two betters in the contest.
 
The Warhawks got three hits in the first inning to put pressure on the Argo defense. Riley Orr eventually singled through the right side to bring Kyle Hipp home.
 
UWF answered in the bottom of the first, scoring on a Brett Rowell sacrifice fly.
 
RH Frankland led off the second with a home run to right to give AUM a 2-1 lead. It was his second long ball of the season.
 
The Argonauts tied it again in the fourth on a Dean Hotz RBI groundout.
 
The Warhawks put up two runs in the fifth as Landon Baeder scored on a Brendan York ground ball and Tucker Burns crossing home on a Hipp sac fly.
 
In the seventh, Orr grounded into a bases loaded double play but York scored from third for a 5-2 lead. UWF matched the single run in the home-half, pulling to within 5-3 on a Parker Tubb 2-out double that scored Hotz.
 
The Argos appeared to get a rally going in the ninth, but AUM's bullpen limited the home team to just one run before Pitts slammed the door shut with a groundout and strikeout.
 
Game Two – AUM 3, No. 25 UWF 2
AUM plated two runs in the sixth inning, stealing the momentum from UWF who had taken a 2-1 lead in the fourth.
 
AUM again got on the scoreboard first, scoring in the fourth inning when Tyrese Rooks was hit by a pitch before stealing second and coming home on a Zach Dew sacrifice fly.
 
UWF took a 2-1 lead scoring on back-to-back 2-out singles in the bottom of the fourth.
 
The Warhawks battled back in the sixth, scoring Dew on a Ryan Revera single to the hole at short. Burns then rocketed a single off the glove of second baseman Gann Nobles to score Frankland for a 3-2 lead.

Jackson Reed (2-3) finished off the game, allowing zero runs over the final three innings after Clay Slagle scattered five hits in four innings.