Cassie Daniels allowed just two hits in her sixth complete-game shutout of the season, and Leslie Kelly had a key two-run triple in the fifth inning to propel the Auburn Montgomery softball team to a 3-0 win over Mobile in its opening game at the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament.

The Warhawks (40-8) will next play Spring Hill in a winner’s bracket game at 1 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. Mobile (28-21) will face either Southern Wesleyan or Brewton-Parker in a loser’s bracket matchup at 11 a.m.

“I thought we had great at bats all night,” head coach Chris Steiner-Wilcoxson said. “I would have liked to have seen a few more hits with runners in scoring position, but we had a lot of people playing in their first conference tournament game so it was nice to get off to a good start. I was a little nervous about having to sit around all day, but they were really fired up and ready to play.”

AUM’s matchup was the last of six games played today at R.G.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – April 30, 2013— B.A.S.S. will host the Alabama River Charge presented by Star brite, May 9 – 12, on the Alabama River in Montgomery, Ala., the fifth of eight Bassmaster Elite Series professional bass fishing tournaments scheduled in 2013.

One hundred of the top bass anglers in the world will compete for a $100,000 prize and coveted entry into the 2014 Bassmaster Classic to be held in Birmingham, Ala., with fishing on Lake Guntersville. Among the field of competitors will be fishing legend Kevin VanDam, 2013 Bassmaster Classic Champion Cliff Pace and 16 Alabama anglers.

From watching the first boats launch at 6:30 a.m. on Thurs., May 9, and the final weigh-in at the Montgomery Riverfront on Sunday at 3:15 p.m., to participating in the family-friendly Elite Series Expo, the activities planned throughout the weekend are free and open to the public, including:

After closing out the regular season with splits against Mobile and Spring Hill, the Auburn Montgomery softball team held on to its seventh position in this week’s NAIA Coaches’ Top 25 poll.

The Warhawks (39-8) received 467 points, an increase of 14 from last week. AUM clinched the regular season Southern States Athletic Conference West Division title over the weekend.

Concordia (Calif.) once again took the top spot with all 21 first-place votes. The Eagles have won their last five games by a combined 51-0 margin.

Lubbock Christian and Lee remained at second and third in the rankings. Cal State San Marcos (No. 4) and Oklahoma City (No. 5) each jumped ahead of sixth-ranked Williams Baptist.

Belhaven (No. 12), Spring Hill (No. 15), Brenau (No. 17) and William Carey (No. 20) give the SSAC a conference-high six programs represented in the poll.