The 25th-ranked University of Mobile baseball team split a Southern States Athletic Conference twin bill at Martin Methodist and Braxton Hamil set a new career RBI standard at UMobile. Mobile took the seven-inning opener 4-1 and then dropped the finale 4-3 in 13 innings.
Mobile (33-15, 15-11) and Martin Methodist (23-15, 11-12) will conclude the series with a single game Saturday at 1 p.m.
Hamil smoked a two-out, two-run home run in the second inning of the opener to give Mobile a 2-1 lead and give the senior 195 career RBIs, breaking a tie with Carlos Romero for the most RBIs in UMobile history.
After Corey Hale worked around multiple runners in each of the fifth and sixth frames, the Rams tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the top of the seventh. A two-out walk to Norberto Torres started the rally, then Tayler Hardy and Travis Tessandori produced run-scoring hits later in the frame.
Hale improved to 12-1 on the season with 6.1 innings of one-run, seven-hit ball. He fanned five and walked three. The lefty leads the NAIA with the 12 wins and leads with 111 strikeouts. The 12 victories are tied for the second-most in UMobile single-season history.
Tessandori, Hamil and Trey Cockrell each finished with two hits in the game.
The teams played a 13-inning finale, with Martin Methodist’s Cody Vernon picking up the win with 4.1 innings of two-hit, shutout relief. He struck out six.
Mobile trailed 3-0 in the seventh and tied it up with a three-spot, starting with Chandler Durham’s leadoff blast. Payne Palmer and Torres also drove in runs in the frame.
The Rams had a golden opportunity to pull ahead in the 12th after loading the bases with nobody out, but a pair of strikeouts and a ground out ended the threat.
The RedHawks then won it on Blake Truett’s two-out, RBI-double in the bottom of the 13th. Cockrell was the tough-luck loser for Mobile after giving up one run on three hits in four innings of relief work.
Hamil added two more hits in the final game to give him 254 career hits, which ranks second all-time at UMobile. Jared Baria holds the top mark with 275. He also extended his hitting streak to 13 games, with a streak of 28-straight games reaching base safely.
Tessandori, Durham, Palmer and Torres all finished with two hits for the Rams.
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