Auburn Baseball Notebook – Mar. 28

Overall: 17-7
Last Week: 3-1
SEC: 3-3
Non-Conference: 14-4
Streak: W1

Last Week’s Results:

Tuesday – vs. South Alabama: W, 13-12 (in Montgomery)
Friday – at Texas A&M: W, 6-5 (10)
Saturday – at Texas A&M: L, 4-5 (11)
Sunday – at Texas A&M: W, 13-9

This Week’s Schedule:

Tuesday – vs. Jacksonville State (6 pm)
Thursday – at No.13 LSU (6 pm)
Friday – at No. 13 LSU (6:30 pm)
Saturday – at No. 13 LSU (1 pm)

Mike Bello – Fr. – OF – Oak Ridge, NJ

4 GP / GS, .333 / .474 / .600, 5-for-15, 7 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 4 BB, 1 SAC

• Recorded a hit in all four games, extending his hit streak to six contests since bursting onto the scene in the middle game against Ole Miss
• Tied for second in the league with seven runs during the week
• Drove in the game-winning run to the bottom of the eighth of Tuesday’s 13-12 win against South Alabama
• Hit his first career home run in the middle game at Texas A&M
• Went 2-for-3 with a double, two walks and matched a season high with four runs in the series-clinching win at Texas A&M

Cole Foster – So. – 2B – Plano, Texas

2 GP / GS, .500 / .500 / 1,200, 5-for-10, 3 R, 1 2B, 2 HR, 3 RBI

• Returned to the lineup for the first time in six games in the middle game against Texas A&M
• Collected multiple hits and homered in back-to-back games against the Aggies, including in his first SEC at-bat of the season
• Went 2-for-5 with a Solo Homer in the middle game and collected a career-high three hits with a go-ahead, two-run Homer in the series finale – finishing a triple shy of the cycle

Nate LaRue – Jr. – C – Mobile, Ala.

4 GP / 3 GS, .231 / .333 / .538, 3-for-13, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI

• Caught the final four innings of Tuesday’s game against South Alabama and all three games at Texas A&M
• Caught three of four base stealers at Texas A&M, who had Stolen 36-of-44 bases Entering the weekend
• Totaled career Highs with three hits and five RBI in the series-clinching win against the Aggies, including a two-run Homer, two-RBI single and go-ahead, ground-rule double in the seventh

Blake Burkhalter – Jr. – RHP – Dothan, Ala.

3 APP, 1-0, 1 SV, 1.93 ERA, 4.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R / 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

• Pitched a career high 2.2 innings and earned his third win of the season against South Alabama
• Struck out the side looking in a 1-2-3 10th Inning in Auburn’s series-opening win at Texas A&M, marking his fourth save of the season
• Made his third appearance of the week and finished the series finale at Texas A&M with two strikeouts in the ninth

Auburn’s six-run comeback win against South Alabama in Montgomery marked the team’s biggest comeback win since coming back from a seven-run deficit against Florida A&M on Feb. 22, 2017… the Tigers series win in College Station was the team’s first since 2013… dating back to the final two road series of last season, it marks the first time Auburn has won three straight SEC road series since 2004… all three of the Tigers wins during the week were come-from-behind wins… Brooks Carlson hit a game-tying, two-RBI double with two outs and two strikes in the top of the ninth Friday … Blake Rambusch hit the game-winning RBI single in the 10th marked it marked Auburn’s first SEC win when trailing after eight innings since the final game of the regular season at LSU in 2019… Rambusch extended his hit streak to 14 games, marking the Longest streak by an Auburn player since Jonah Todd’s 16-game hit streak in 2017… Rambusch has multiple hits in 13 games this season, including seven of the last eight… he is tied for the SEC lead with 40 hits overall and leads the way with 13 hits in league games… Sonny DiChiara continues to lead the conference in average (.452), on-base percentage (.609) and slugging percentage (.935)… Mike Bello leads the conference in average (.471) and runs (10) in SEC games… the Tigers lead the league in average (.308), runs (50), hits (72) and doubles (18) through two weeks of SEC play .