Box Score OXFORD, Ala. –  The Montevallo baseball team was unable to overcome a fast start by Valdosta State, falling to the Blazers 13-2 in the opening round of the 2024 Gulf South Conference Baseball Championship.
 
No. 5 seed Valdosta State opened the game with four runs on two homers in the first, putting the Falcons behind 4-0.
 
Gino Cozzi settled into the game with a pair of three-up, three-down frames in the second and third innings.
 
The Blazers added four more in the fourth and a pair in the fifth, to lead UM 8-0.
 
In the top of the sixth, the Falcons found their first run of the game on an RBI double from Logan Harbin – his team-leading 11^th of the year. Next, Landon Leake collected his second hit of the day as he drove in UM's second run of the game on a single, cutting the deficit to eight, 10-2.
 
The Falcons came up short in the end as VSU took game one, 13-2.  
 

GAME INFORMATION
Score: No. 5 Montevallo 13 | No. 4 Valdosta State 2
Records: Montevallo 27-22 (17-14) | Valdosta State 27-18 (19-12)
Location: Oxford, AL | Choccolocco Park


GAME NOTES

• Montevallo scored two runs on seven hits while VSU added 13 runs on 13 hits.
• Landon Leake extended his hitting streak to six games as he finished 2-for-3 from the plate with one RBI.
• Logan Harbin logged the lone extra-base hit for the Falcons as he finished 1-for-4 with an RBI double.
• Evan Liddie added a pair of hits as he went 2-for-4 from the plate for his team-leading 18^th multi-hit game this year.

UP NEXT:  The Falcons fall into the loser's bracket and will play either Lee or West Georgia in an elimination game on Saturday at 4:00 p.m.