MONTEVALLO, Ala. — The offensive fireworks for the University of Montevallo carried over from Saturday as the Falcons walloped Ohio Valley University, 16-3, on Sunday afternoon.
"The biggest thing for me is we have to do a better job against the starter," said Montevallo baseball head coach
Chandler Rose. "I think what showed the most this weekend was the depth of our pitching staff and we were able to outlast their guy, because our pitchers were able to keep us in the game."
Ohio Valley (0-3) was clinging to a 2-0 lead when starter Alex Jarrell lifted in the bottom of the fifth inning after
Ryan Brooks doubled home
Tucker Marrillia to cut Montevallo's deficit to one run.
However, Garrett Bonn, who entered the game after Jarrell, was pegged for four runs during the sixth as Brooks earned a bases-loaded walk to score
Sebastian Samuels and tie the game, before
Reed Latimer singled home
Alex Langford and
Riley Cain doubled home Brooks and Marrillia.
From there, the Falcons offense added nine more runs on four hits throughout the sixth inning to take a 14-2 lead. Samuels extended the lead with a solo home run in the seventh.
"We just have a bunch of games who are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done," Samuels said. "We were down in the beginning, but, in the dugout, the moral was still high, so we knew, no matter what, they we were going to have a chance to win this game."
Ohio Valley snapped the scoring run with a groundout in the eighth inning, but Brooks added back to the UM lead with a solo home run in the bottom half of the frame.
"There was a lot of confidence and the drive to never quit," said Latimer, who finished with a career-high four runs batted in on three hits, on the Falcons' 13-run sixth inning. "We were learning from our mistakes and just bouncing back."
Following the three-game sweep of Ohio Valley, Montevallo (3-0) returns to action on Friday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. when Trevecca Nazarene University comes to Montevallo for a three-game series over two days as the two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon starting at 1 p.m.
