ROME, Ga. – The Shorter baseball team put together a five-run outburst in the second inning that set the tone for the Hawks as they claimed a 6-5 non-conference against visiting Montevallo on Wednesday afternoon at the Ledbetter Baseball Complex.

The win gives the Hawks an 11-11 overall record heading into another Gulf South Conference this weekend when they head to Clinton, Miss., to face Mississippi College in a three-game series that begins with a doubleheader Saturday afternoon and ends on Sunday.

Against the Montevallo, a member of the NCAA Division II's Peach Belt Conference, Shorter found the offense early as the Hawks unloaded for seven hits to plate five runs.

Ian Redetzky started the run parade driving home a run on an infield single, Tyler Trenery followed with a run-scoring double, Brian Cabrera delivered a double to bring in two more runs and Taylor Cato closed out the rally with an RBI single.

In the bottom of the fifth, however, the Hawks came up with what proved to be the winning run when Zach Santos led off with a double, moved to third when Bryan Mathews hit a deep sacrifice fly to center and scored on a sacrifice fly to right by Dustin Lawson.

The Falcons (14-13) closed the gap in the top of the sixth with a three-run stanza and pulled to within a run of the Hawks thanks to a two-run eighth inning, but reliever Brandon Reynolds took the mound in the ninth to shut down the Falcons to notch the save.

The Hawks ended the game scattering 14 hits, with Cato collecting three hits and the RBI, Cabrera finished with two hits and the two RBIs, and Santos and Redetzky had two hits each.

Starter Justin Machado went six inning to record the win allowing four hits and three earned runs, and Chadd Felder and Christian Champion pitched an inning each to set the table for Reynolds in the ninth.