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Auburn Picks Up 14th Straight Non-Conference Win, Downs Bethune-Cookman


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Joseph Sanders and Hunter Morris each hit home runs and

Scott Shuman picked up his first win in over a year as Auburn ran its

non-conference winning streak to 14 with a 6-3 win over Bethune-Cookman

at Plainsman Park on Wednesday night.  Auburn improved to 22-10 with the

win while Bethune-Cookman dropped to 15-17.

“I thought we pitched very well yesterday and today. Scott Shuman threw

the ball well again after throwing it well at Mississippi State (last

weekend),” Auburn Head Coach John Pawlowski said. “Our goals this week

with two midweek games was to play solid baseball and find a way to win

a couple of games, and we did that. Now we have to get ready for

Florida.”

Morris finished the night 2-for-3 to run his hitting streak to seven

games and pick up his eighth multi-hit game of the season while Sanders’

two RBI gives him nine multi-RBI games tonight and ups his season total

to 44. The pair also upped the season home-run total to 69.

Scott Shuman (1-0) earned his first win since March 9, 2008, entering in

the fifth with Auburn up 3-1 and runners on first and second and two

out. He induced a groundball out of Chris Brown to end the inning and

then retired six of the next nine hitters he faced before running into

trouble in the eighth., allowing a leadoff walk, a two-run home run and

another walk before being taken out of the game with one on and one out

in the inning. He finished the night allowing two runs on three hits and

three walks, striking out three in 2 2/3 innings.

Ryan Durrence drove in all three of Bethune-Cookman’s runs, hitting a

one-out solo home run in the second off of Auburn starter Paul Burnside

and then a one-out, two-run shot off of Shuman in the eighth.

Bethune-Cookman starter Joseph Munoz (2-4) took the loss, surrendering

four runs on six hits and three walks in four-plus innings, leaving

after Morris’ fifth-inning home run.

Austin Hubbard picked up his second save in as many nights, entering

with two on and two out in the eighth and walking the first hitter he

faced before fanning Drew Clark with the bases loaded to end the eighth.

He then pitched around a leadoff triple in the ninth, striking out the

heart of the Bethune-Cookman order, to earn his seventh save of the

season and up his season strikeout tally to 39 in just 23 1/3 innings.

Sanders’ 14th home run of the season erased a one-run deficit in the

third and turned it into a 2-1 Auburn lead as he sent a 2-1 pitch out to

left-center with Trent Mummey on first after being hit by a pitch.

Mummey’s two-out single to right in the fourth scored Casey McElroy, who

had walked to start the inning, to put Auburn up 3-1 before Morris

delivered his eighth home run of the season in the fifth for a 4-1 lead

with none out in the inning.

Following the Morris blast, Tony Caldwell continued his hot streak at

the plate, tripling off of Bethune-Cookman reliever Edgar Serra and

scoring on a wild pitch to make it 5-1 Auburn.

Auburn tacked on a final run in the bottom of the eighth as McElroy

singled, went to second on an errant pickoff throw to first, moved up to

third on a wild pitch and scored on Justin Hargett’s single.

Making his first start since March 22, Burnside pitched into the fifth

inning, allowing a run on three hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings,

striking out three.

Auburn finished the game with a season-high five stolen bases, with

Hargett stealing two and McElroy, Morris and Mummey each grabbing one.

Auburn returns to Southeastern Conference action this weekend when it

plays host to No. 22 Florida for three games, beginning Friday at 6pm

CT. The series continues on Saturday at 3pm and concludes on Sunday at

1pm.

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