SCORE

Montevallo 8

Eckerd 6

RECORDS

Montevallo 1-0 overall

Eckerd 0-1 overall

LOCATION

Turley Athletic Complex, St. Petersburg, Florida

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Falcons kicked off the season with an 8-6 win over Eckerd College in the first game of a three-game series.

Montevallo brought the first run of the game across in the top of the fourth inning to take a 1-0 lead over the Tritons.  Daniel Pardo led off the inning with a single up the middle, but a pair of strikeouts looked to strand the second runner of the game for the Falcons.  Dom DeVille advanced Pardo into scoring position after being awarded the base on a hit by pitch.  Sebastian Samuels hit an RBI double to left field to plate Pardo and gave the Falcons the early lead.

The Tritons were quick to respond with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning to tie the ballgame at 1-1.

Montevallo found themselves in a 6-1 hole after giving up five runs in the fifth inning. 

However, the Falcons rallied back in the final two innings that started with Montevallo capitalizing on a pair of errors by the Tritons.  Khari Anderson reached base due to a throwing error by Eckerd's Justin Glover and scored a couple plays later on a passed ball.  The final run of the inning came off a sacrifice fly from DeVille to plate Pardo and cut the Tritons lead to 6-3.

Montevallo continued the rally in the top of the ninth inning.  The Falcons plated a total of five runs in the inning to take an 8-6 lead over the Tritons.  Eckerd's Cameron Lanzilli loaded the bases and then hit Matthew Furuto and walked Caleb Ledbetter in back-to-back at-bats to pull Montevallo to within one run of the lead. 

The go-ahead run was scored on a bases-clearing double by DeVille who hit deep into the centerfield gap to score Pardo, Furuto, and Ledbetter.

Anthony Porter (1-0) earned the win for the Falcons and Cas Silber was credited with the save.

STAT OF THE GAME

DeVille went 1-of-3 from the plate in tonight's victory and drove in four runs to lift the Falcons to an 8-6 victory.

Jamison Roney got the start for the Falcons and pitched a solid four innings, only giving up one earned run and striking out eight batters.

UP NEXT  

The Falcons will finish the series against Eckerd on Saturday, February 4th with a doubleheader that will begin at 11 am CT with the second game of the day following shortly after the conclusion of the first.