PENSACOLA, Fla. — UWF baseball (6-8) got back in the win column with a dominant 13-1 win over Miles College (5-9) on Tuesday evening at Jim Spooner Field. The Argos got a superb start from freshman pitcher Hunter Lucas (1-1), who carried a shutout into the ninth and fired a four-hit, 95-pitch complete game. The offense exploded for a season-high 18 hits and 13 runs.

In the first start of his UWF career, Lucas threw just 75 pitches from the first through the eighth. He did not have to face more than four batters until the ninth inning. Lucas finished with seven strikeouts vs. just one walk. He scattered four hits (three singles) and just a single tally in the ninth with the outcome of the game already secure. The complete game was the first of the season for the UWF staff.

Nine Argos either scored a run or picked up an RBI or both. Bryant Harris, Jr., Trevor Payne, Joey Bend and Matt Sullivan all finished with three hits. UWF posted four runs in the third after getting out to a 2-0 lead in the second. The team posted five runs in the fifth and sixth to put the contest out of reach.

After stranding two runners in the first, the Argos scored their first run in the secon on the first of two sacrifice flies in the game by Jacob Silverstein. Nic Strasser quickly followed with an RBI single.

In the third the Argos added four more, two on a throwing error by Miles starter Dylan Johnson, who lasted four innings and dropped to 1-3 with the loss. The offense added a seventh run in the fifth before a two-out rally plated four more in the sixth to make it 11-0.

16 of the team's first 18 hits were singles before back-to-back extra-base hits by Matt Sullivan and Bryant Harris, Jr. in the eighth drove in the final two runs.

The Argos take on the Golden Bears to finish the quick two-game set Wednesday afternoon. First pitch at The Spoon is set for 3:00 p.m.

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