MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Pounding out 15 hits and taking advantage of eight walks and two hit batters, the Lee baseball team run-rule Auburn Montgomery 19-7 in eight innings on Friday evening. The win pushed the Flames to 4-3 in GSC play and 9-8 overall. They will face the Warhawks in a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday. 

While the Flames were collecting the 15 hits off five AUM pitchers, Sam Fulton overcame a three-run first inning by the Warhawks and two more runs in the second to pick up the pitching victory. He worked 5.1 innings, allowing 11 hits, seven earned runs, struck out two and walked two. Greyson Linderman took over for the final 2.2 innings. In a sparkling performance, he did not walk a batter and fanned three.  

At the plate, Josiah Miller got the Flames going in the first inning with a two-run homer that scored Cam Suto as Lee jumped on top 4-0. They added three more runs in the third. Riley Black supplied the big blow with a three-run blast over the left-field wall that scored Miller and Suto. 

The damage continued in the fourth as the Flames built a 10-5 lead. It was Suto's time to play long-ball. He homered to left driving home Brandon Daniels and Dylan Standifer. Lee salted the sweet win away in the eighth. Daniels, Suto, Miller and Isaac Quinones collected RBIs before Standifer finished the damage when he doubled to right that plated Luke Hughes and Quinones. 

"Our offense was up to the challenge today and found ways to get multiple big innings," said a pleased Coach Mark Brew. "Sam (Fulton) had a solid performance and Greyson (Linderman) was really good out of the bullpen, especially minimizing the rally they had going in the sixth. Tomorrow is a different day and it will be a battle all day and we need to be ready to go."