LIVINGSTON, AL - The UWG baseball team split with the West Alabama Tigers in Saturday's double header, falling 15-3 in game one, ending the Wolves winning streak at 15. West Georgia answered right back with a 12-5 win in game two.
Game One
The opener of the double header was one to forget for the Wolves as the Tigers jumped all over the Wolves early, getting out to a 9-0 lead after the first three innings.
After chasing UWG's starter,
Brandon Goldsmith, West Alabama continued to pour it on, building a 15-0 lead after six.
West Georgia scored three runs in the seventh after
Matthew Pope got on with a one-out single and scored on an
Artemis Kadkhodaian double.
Ben Utley then drove in Kadkhodaian with a pinch hit single, and then scored two batters later when
Dalton Rogers singled.
UWG used three pitchers in the game and got nine hits from nine different players.
Game Two
The Wolves rebounded in a big way in game two, but not before West Alabama again jumped out to an early lead. It looked like it might be another tough game after UWA scored three runs in the first two innings, but the bats would come alive for the Wolves in the third.
West Georgia sent 12 batters to the plate in the third, scoring seven runs on eight hits and one error.
Ben Utley and
Payton Mann led off with back-to-back singles and then scored on back-to-back hits by
Cade Marlowe and
Caleb Lopes.
The Wolves then went back-to-back hits again, only these two went over the Tartt Field wall as
Dalton Rogers hit a three-run home run and
Tyler Hutch followed with a solo shot to left field.
Garrett Hayes then doubled and scored on a UWG error later in the inning.
Kadkhodaian added two runs for West Georgia in the fifth with a two-run homer that scored
Drew Eady who led off the frame with a single.
The Tigers used a walk and a double to score one in the bottom of the sixth, only to have UWG respond with two runs in the seventh. UWG had three singles in the seventh by Kadkhoadain, Lopes and Rogers with a
Cade Marlowe walk mixed in, scoring the two runs.
West Alabama added one more run in the seventh, but the Wolves got the win, and did not have to use the bullpen as senior
Matthew Norton pitched his second straight complete game. Norton is now 6-1 on the year with a 3.05 ERA.
Dalton Rogers had four RBI in game two and now has 56 RBI on the year. Four Wolves had multiple hits in the second game, including
Caleb Lopes who was 4-for-5 with two RBI.
The Wolves and Tigers meet for tomorrow's rubber game at 2 p.m. EST in Livingston, Ala.
