MONTEVALLO, Ala. — It doesn't matter what inning a team scores the game-ending run in as long as it's on the right side of the scoreboard and that's what happened to the University of Montevallo as the Falcons scored in the bottom of the 11th to beat Lynn University, 3-2, on Sunday afternoon.

"The guys just fought continuously throughout the game today," said Montevallo baseball head coach Chandler Rose. "Honestly, it was guys stepping up who hadn't had a lot of opportunities. We had some guys on the mound today who took advantage of their opportunity and made the best of it."

Ryan Duncan, who had only pitched 3.2 innings this season entering Sunday, tossed a career-high 4.2 innings of scoreless baseball to start the game, before giving way to Daniel Buice with runners at second and third and two away in the top of the fifth. Buice answered the call with an inning-ending strikeout to preserve Montevallo's 2-0 lead.

However, Lynn (5-5-1) broke through in the run column the following inning on a one-out sacrifice fly to right field. The Fighting Knights tied the game the following inning with a two-out bloop single into right field past the glove of a diving Ryan Brooks.

Montevallo (7-3) had an opportunity to end the game in the bottom of the ninth when Asa Awbrey lead off the inning with a single then took second a sacrifice bunt. He advanced to third on a wild pitch, but a strikeout ended the inning and sent the game into extra innings.

Awbrey, again, came up with a clutch hit when he led off the bottom of the 11th with a single down the right-field line, before advancing to second on a second Jake Smallwood sacrifice bunt in three innings. Brooks followed by drawing a walk, then Cain hit a pitch that forced the Lynn first baseman to range over to second base, where he attempted a throw for an out, but the throw hit Brooks in the back and allowed Awbrey to round third and score.

"I kept getting pitches to hit — they were floating in off-speed stuff — and I talked with Coach (Chance) Sugg and Coach (Franklin) Bush) about our approach to these pitchers when they're throwing slow," said Awbrey, who scored Montevallo's second run of the game on a Brooks single in the second inning. "If they threw us a fastball, it was to sit back and hit it the other way and hit the offspeed up the middle, so I kept getting good pitches to hit and just hit them hard."

Montevallo will return to action when it hits the road for the first time this season as the Falcons travel to Montgomery, Ala., to face Tuskegee University on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 12 p.m. CT.