The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
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Baseball Gets Win At Alabama State
4/16/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 16, 2002
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - UAB
second baseman Seth Rollin
homered twice? and starting pitcher
Rusty McIntyre got his first
collegiate victory? as the Blazers
defeated Alabama State 6-3
Tuesday? afternoon at Paterson
Field.
Rollin, a freshman from
Montgomery's? Jeff Davis High
School who played many of his high school games at Paterson Field, seemed to
enjoy the familiar surroundings.?
He led off the top of the second inning with a home run to left center
field and repeated the feat in the fourth with a long leadoff homer to right
center field.
Rollin now leads the Blazers
with four home runs for the season.
UAB (11-25) also scored a
run in the third inning on an RBI double by first baseman Matt Womble which
scored center fielder Chad House,
and in the fifth on an RBI double by third baseman Matt Gaulden, which drove in designated hitter Kyle Leon.
UAB added two insurance runs
in the seventh inning. Leadoff hitter Womble was hit by Hornet reliever Kenny
Hudson, then stole second base.? Right fielder Eric Lyon then drove Womble in with a double down the right
field line.? Lyon moved to third on
an error by Alabama State third baseman William Dean on a ground ball by Leon, then stole home when the Hornets
caught Leon in a run-down on a pickoff attempt.
Alabama State (18-22) scored
a run in the fourth inning on an RBI single by shortstop Bartkowski Cowan that scored first baseman Brian Nichols, and another in the fifth on an RBI single by second
baseman Spencer Kellam that
scored catcher Eric Duff.
The Hornets' final run
of the day came in the eighth inning as Duff slammed a one-out solo home run to
left field off UAB reliever Ryan Huffman.
McIntyre (1-0), a freshman
from Decatur, Ala. (Decatur HS) worked five complete innings in his second-ever
collegiate start, allowing one run on four hits, with one walk and five
strikeouts.?
Huffman worked three innings, allowing two runs on three hits, with no walks
and three strikeouts.
Another UAB freshman from
Montgomery (Lee HS) - reliever Tony Falls - worked the ninth inning, allowing no runs on
one hit, striking out two to earn his second save of the year.
Alabama State starter James
Coleman (1-3) was the losing
pitcher, working four complete innings, allowing three runs on four hits, with
three walks and one strikeout.
