MONTGOMERY-There are not a lot of baseball coaches who have won 1,000 games, so it is even more rare when two coaches that have won 1,000 games actually face each other in competition.

That is exactly what happened during the weekend of Feb. 13-15 as 11th ranked Cumberland University (Tenn.) and 18th ranked Auburn University at Montgomery (Ala.) met at the AUM Baseball Complex.

Cumberland's head coach Woody Hunt entered the weekend with 1,193 career wins while AUM's Q.V. Lowe entered the weekend with 1,043 career wins.

The coaches have been long time friends, meeting back when both coaches were coaching minor league baseball in the New York Penn League in the early 70's.

Once the coaches decided to get into the college game, the wins came as did the awards. Both coaches are Hall of Fame coaches with Hunt being in the NAIA Hall of Fame and will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 20. Lowe has already been inducted into the AUM Hall of Fame and was recently inducted into the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

The two coaches spent several minutes together before the start of the game on Friday just talking baseball and families. Coach Lowe's wife Ginger was able to greet and talk with Coach Hunt and Coach Lowe was able to meet Coach Hunt's grandchildren who had made the trip down with the team.

Once the games started it was all business as both coaches used strategy and tried to make the right decisions to put their teams in position to win the games. There were the usual discussions between coaches and umpires in between innings and during the games, trips to the mound and talking hitting strategies with batters.

All three games were fairly close, with the Senators winning Friday's action 4-1 in a game that was halted after six innings due to rain. On Sunday, the two teams completed a double-header with the Senators winning the first game 12-6 and Cumberland taking the second game in a heated back-and-forth 7-6 win.

But after the games were over the two coaches sat down on the bench and just talked again, reliving the games and what the rest of the season may bring and the important conference games that will come to both teams in a few weeks.

These two teams had met in the first game of the 2006 NAIA World Series and here it is three years later and over a hundred more wins for each coach, and who knows these two true gentlemen of the game could meet again in late May. And if they do, you can probably find them leaning on the fence or sitting in the dugout just talking baseball before the game starts.