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Box Score 3 In their most dominating performance of the season, Christian Brothers swept Auburn-Montgomery for the first time in school history including a 22-4 drubbing in the third and final game of the weekend. The Bucs got solid pitching and timely hitting in all three games for the wins.
GAME 1
Trailing 2-1 heading into the 9th inning, CBU exploded for five runs to seal the come-from-behind win. With one out, Sam Walker homered to cut the lead to 2-1. Jalen Smith doubled to right center and Shakhai Matthews pinch ran for him. After Seth Brown walked, the two runners moved up a base on a wild pitch. Logan Croley reached on a fielder's choice that scored Matthews to tie the game. Pinch-hitter Patrick Mangels reached on a fielder's choice scoring Brown to give the Bucs the lead. Tate Gentleman doubled down the line to score Croley and then Jackson Licata flied to center to score Mangels with the fifth run.
Cameron Olivo pitched five innings for CBU allowing two runs on seven hits with four walks and two strikeouts. Dylan Bowers got the win in relief pitching three scoreless innings while striking out four. A.J. Gamboa pitched a scoreless ninth to get the save.
GAME 2
CBU won the second game, 6-4, once again coming from behind. Jalen Smith singled in Cory Steinhauer to give CBU an early 1-0 lead. However, the Warhawks scored two in the first and two in the second to take the lead 4-1. Nick Petruzello singled and Steinhauer walked in the third and Smith rocketed his fifth homer of the year to tie the game at four.
The Bucs regained the lead in the fifth. The Bucs loaded the bases on a Smith single and walks to Brown and Gabe Walker. Gentleman then slapped a sacrifice fly to center to make it a 5-4 game. The Bucs added one more run in the seventh when Patrick Mangels homered to left.
Four CBU pitchers limited AUM to just six hits. Charlie Faero, A.J. Gamboa, Eli Potter and Lawson Ryan walked only three with Ryan getting the win with his 3.2 innings of scoreless relief.
GAME 3
CBU exploded for 22 runs in the third game of the series. Nine different Bucs had base hits in the game, ten scored runs and nine had at least one run batted in. Jalen Smith drove in a career high six runs with Sam Walker and Jackson Licata collecting three RBI apiece. The Bucs pounded out 18 hits in the game.
CBU (9-14, 4-11) returns home Tuesday for a nonconference doubleheader against Lane College out of Jackson, Tennessee.