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Box Score 2 CARROLLTON, Ga. - West Georgia Baseball split the Saturday double header with the Montevallo Falcons and ended the 2022 campaign with a record of 24-20 on the season.
Game One
Robert Coleman made his final start in a West Georgia uniform in game one, going five innings, one earned run, five hits, three walks, and four strikeouts.
Through the first four innings, both pitchers came out with their best stuff, as they combined for no runs, two walks, six strikeouts, and just six hits.
After holding the Wolves scoreless in the top of the fifth, Montevallo got on the scoreboard first in the bottom half. After getting the bases loaded with no outs, the first run of the game came across to score on a sac fly. Two more runs came across in the inning, giving the Falcons a 3-0 lead going into the late innings.
The Wolves cracked the scoreboard in the sixth inning. After working the bases loaded,
Anthony Calabro came through with a three RBI double into the right center gap to tie the game.
Jack Rasmussen got the call from the bullpen in the sixth inning, looking to keep the game tied. After giving up a lead off single, Rasmussen got the next three batters to fly out, sending the game to the seventh with a 3-3 tie.
In the eighth,
Collin Moore put the Wolves in front 4-3 after blasting his ninth home run of the season.
The Wolves got an insurance run in the ninth.
Brody Wortham drove a two out double into the gap, and one batter later,
Davis Schwartz drove him in with an RBI single, giving the Wolves a 5-3 lead going to the bottom of the ninth.
That proved to be plenty of runs as Rasmussen sat down the Falcons in order in the ninth, to secure the 5-3 victory. Rasmussen finished with four innings pitched, allowing just two hits, zero runs, two walks, and three strikeouts.
Game Two
Jonathan Hickman made the start in game three, and he was chased quickly from the game, only going 1.1 innings, giving up seven runs, three earned, six hits, no walks, and two strikeouts.
Montevallo jumped out early with three runs in the first inning on three hits, including an RBI double from Kuchinski. In the second, the Falcons added four more, being helped by two UWG errors, taking a 7-0 lead into the third inning.
The Falcons would have their largest scoring inning of the game in the third, striking for six in the inning, on four hits, including a two run home run from Latimer. Going into the fourth inning, the Falcons held a 13-0 lead.
The Falcons would get two more in the fifth, and hold a 15-0 lead before the Wolves could crack the scoreboard. After back to back singles from
Fuzzy Furr and
Charlie Tull,
Davis Schwartz sent a double into left field to score Furr, making the score 15-1.
After getting two more in the fifth and sixth innings, Montevallo took a 19-1 lead into the game's final inning.
In the seventh,
Jonathan Logsdon would send a two out double to left for just the fifth hit for the Wolves all game, but that would be all the offense they could muster, and the Wolves fell 19-1 in game three and lost two games out of three in the series.