AIKEN, S.C. – For the final time in the 2011 season, the University of South Carolina Aiken baseball team played in a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader. The Pacers (27-19, 9-14 PBC) split the league twinbill with the University of Montevallo Falcons (19-25, 7-16 PBC), claiming the first game 7-1 before falling 9-1 in the second game Friday night at Roberto Hernandez Stadium.

The Pacers secured the majority of their runs of the first game in the fourth inning, going up 6-0 off three hits and two walked batsmen.

With the sacks loaded, JJ Loker (Elkton, Va./Spotswood) walked to push Stephen Carmon (Camden, S.C./Camden) home for the first score of the day just before the Montevallo starting hurler, Will Dismukes, threw a wild pitch well over his catcher's head to allow Josh Miller (Chapin, S.C./Chapin) to race home and advance the other two runners putting USC Aiken up 2-0.

The Pacers secured two more runs, and with USC Aiken up 4-0, Adam Spires (Gilbert, S.C./Gilbert) put the exclamation point on the drive when he ripped a two-run home run over the left field wall to go up 6-0.

Jowan Gray (Aiken, S.C./South Aiken) pushed the final Pacer run of the game across the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning when he was walked by Joey Noro to score Teddy Leverett (Evans, Ga./Truett-McConnell) and put USC Aiken up 7-0.

The Falcons were able to avoid the shutout in game one when Heath Peterson crossing the plate after Devon Davis sent a blooper single to the shortstop.

Davis was 3-for-4 in the game with the lone RBI for Montevallo.

Tyler Bourdo (Evans, Ga./Truett-McConnell) was 2-for-3 in the first of the doubleheader with a pair of RBIs and one run scored.

Jason Cochcroft (Gilbert, S.C./Gilbert) pitched the complete first game for USC Aiken striking out four batters to move to 4-1 for the year after giving up just one run and not relinquishing a single walk.

Dismukes started on the hill in game one for Montevallo to fall to 3-5 for the year in just over six innings of work.

The Falcons would use the first game as motivation as they went up 3-0 in the first inning of the second game to garner their first lead of the day, and never looked back.

USC Aiken attempted to chip away at the lead, but were only able to get one run back in the bottom of the inning before Montevallo added three more runs in the second inning to go up by five at 6-1.

Montevallo added one run to their tally in the fourth inning before netting two final runs in the eighth inning to go up the final 9-1 over the Pacers.

Thomas McLeod (Chapin, S.C./Chapin) suffered the loss in the game to fall to 8-5 for the season while Kyle Butler pitched the complete game for the Falcons to improve to 5-4 for the year after fanning nine batters.

USC Aiken and Montevallo will wrap up their league series with a 1 p.m. rubber game on Saturday, April 23 at the 'Bert.