MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Rhodes baseball team opened its season on Friday with a win over Huntingdon College, 4-3.
 
The Lynx advance to 1-0 with their first victory to start the 2014 campaign, while the Hawks fall to 0-1.
 
Strother White had two hits to pace the Lynx in their first game. Rhodes answered a one-run first inning by Huntingdon with a one-run second after a bases loaded walk scored Wallis.
 
Rhodes kept the offense moving as a White single to left send home Walker McWherter in the second inning to give the Lynx a 2-1 lead. The Lynx sent another player home in the seventh inning when Josh Keen found his way to home plate. The Hawks posted a two run seventh to tie the ball game at 3-3 after a G. Free single sent home two runners. Rhodes had the final say in the ninth inning when Bill Munson singled through the left side, sending home Justin Genter for the winning run.
 
Rhodes finished the game with seven hits, with hits coming from a host of Lynx and posted zero errors in the outing.
 
Blake Glauben started the game  on the mound for the Lynx, hurling for six and two thirds innings, giving up three hits and fanning eight batters. Thomas Beamish, who earned the win, closed out the contest, throwing for two and a third innings, giving up one hit and earning one strikeout.  
 
Rhodes will be back in action in Montgomery, Ala. tomorrow as they take on Randolph-Macon College in a neutral site game on Feb. 8, with the first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.