LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The University of North Alabama baseball team got a season-high 12 hits and rolled to its second straight win overall and first road win of the season in an 8-4 victory over Little Rock.
 
The Lions, now 3-7, took a 1-0 lead in the second inning, then broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth with a four-run outburst. After the Trojans cut UNA's advantage to 5-3 in the sixth, each team added runs in the seventh to make it 6-4. The Lions get plated the final two runs in the ninth got the four-run advantage.
 
Despite allowing 13 hits, the UNA pitchers were solid as Hunter Davidson, Bryant Claunch and Kyle Moore combined in the victory. Davidson (1-2) got the win, pitching five and a third innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. He walked one and struckout eight. Claunch came on in the sixth and pitched two and a third innings, allowing one run on four hits with two strikeouts. Moore then closed it out with a scoreless ninth inning, despite allowing two hits.
 
Reid Homan sparked UNA offensively, going four-for-five with a run scored and three runs batted in. Included in those totals was a double and a triple.
 
In the second inning, Colt Chrestman doubled for UNA and scored on a Luke Harper RBI-single.
 
In the fifth, Ben Kiefer singled, Grayson Throneberry walked and Drew Hudson singled to load the bases. Kevin Brenning walked to force in a run. The Trojans then balked in a run and Homan singled in Hudson for the third run of the inning. A Devne Daniel sacrifice fly drove in the final run in the fifth.
 
Homan triples with one out in the seventh and then scored on a Daniel groundout.
 
UNA's final runs came in the top of the ninth when Throneberry walked, Brenning singled and a Homan double drove in both runners.
 
The series continues with single games on Saturday and Sunday.