MONTEVALLO, Ala. – The University of Montevallo baseball team picked up a pair of wins Sunday, defeating Kentucky State 14-1 in game one and 5-0 in game two.
 
The originally scheduled three-game series against the Thoroughbreds was altered, due to weather, to a double-header Sunday afternoon at Kermit A. Johnson Field at Bob Reisener Stadium. Saturday's game was canceled.
 


GAME ONE
 
To begin the afternoon, Montevallo's Asa Awbrey reached on an error that scored Barry Eiesman to lead 1-0.
 
Logan Samuels took the mound for the Falcons in game one and continued a dominant start in the third inning when he struck out the side.
 
In the bottom of the fourth, Montevallo broke the game wide open with 10 runs in the inning. The scoring affair began when Eiseman scored Evan Liddie on an RBI single. Next up, Ben Teel blasted a three-run shot to left field to give Montevallo a 5-1 lead. Reed Latimer added to the scoring with a homer of his own, a two-run shot to left field, to put UM ahead 7-1. Liddie recorded his second hit of the inning when he doubled to right field and scored Zen Hiatt. After freshman Christian Kahaller scored on a wild pitch, Eiseman added his second RBI of the inning to push UM to a 10-1 advantage. A sacrifice fly from Teel gave him his fourth RBI of the inning and scored Matt Simon to make it an 11-1 lead for the Falcons. Montevallo scored 10 runs on eight hits in the fourth.

Samuels capped off his start in the fifth inning and he mowed down two more KSU batters, giving him 10 strikeouts on the day.
 
In the bottom of the sixth Jake O'Connell tripled to left field, scored Wyatt Cunningham, and came home on an error by the left fielder. Brandon Moore stepped in next and drilled a homer to center field to give UM a 14-1 lead.
 
Trey Mooney closed out the game-one win on the mound with a swinging strikeout.
 
INFORMATION          

Score: Montevallo 14, Kentucky State 1 (7 inn)
Records: Montevallo (-1) | Kentucky State (0-1)
Location: Kermit A. Johnson Field | Montevallo, Ala.
Duration: 2:35

GAME NOTES

• Montevallo plated 14 runs on 11 hits and earned 12 free bases. KSU committed six errors.
• Evan Liddie led UM from the plate in game one as he finished 3-for-3, recorded two doubles, scored two runs and drove in one.
• Ben Teel had a team-high four RBI in the game – all coming from the fourth inning.
• Teel, Brandon Moore and Reed Latimer each hit home runs in the contest.
• Logan Samuels was dominant on the mound as he faced 20 batters, struck out 10, and allowed just one run on four hits in five innings pitched. Samuels picked up the win and is 1-0 on the year.
• Zach Toth and Trey Mooney each made appearances out of the pen and recorded one strikeout.

GAME TWO
 
In game two, Montevallo was held at until the bottom of the third when an RBI ground from Ben Teel scored Matt Simon. Simon reached on a hit-by-pitch and advanced to second after a Barry Eiseman walk before scoring.
 
The Falcons led 1-0 in the top of the fifth but still hadn't recorded a hit until Teel doubled to left field and picked up two more RBI to push the lead to 3-0.
 
Evan Liddie continued a successful afternoon in the second game as he singled to right field to score Alex Langford. Montevallo plated its final run of the game when Sam Kuchinski singled up the middle to score Liddie.
 
Connor Phelan finished off the game-two win, 5-0, on the mound with a swinging strikeout as he picked up his first save of the year.
 
The Montevallo pitching staff was dominant in the win, allowing just one hit. Freeman struck out the side in the top of the first inning and gave up the only hit of the game on a one-out single in the top of the second. Montevallo held KSU hitless over the next five innings.
 
 
INFORMATION          

Score: Montevallo 5, Kentucky State 0
Records: Montevallo (5-1) | Kentucky State (0-2)
Location: Kermit A. Johnson Field | Montevallo, Ala.

GAME NOTES

• Montevallo plated five runs on four hits with 12 free bases.
• Ben Teel, Sam Kuchinski, Alex Langford and Evan Liddie combined for the hits in the series finale.
• Teel recorded a team-high three RBI as he finished 1-for-3 from the plate.
• Matt Simon scored two of UM's five runs.
• The Montevallo pitching staff was dominant in the win as Dylan Freeman three innings with five strikeouts, no runs allowed and just one hit.
• Griffin Lape earned the win out of the pen, his first of the year, and struck out two batters in 1.2 innings pitched.
• Danny Glenos pitched one inning and sat down two batters on strikes.
• Connor Phelan kept the Thoroughbreds without a hit since the second and earned the save in 1.1 innings pitched with one strikeout.

UP NEXT: Montevallo will travel to Tuskegee on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 1 p.m