DAHLONEGA, GA. – Dropping a pair of games, the No. 1 UAH softball team lost an extra-innings affair to No. 24 Columbus State 7-6 on Saturday afternoon before falling 8-3 to No. 2 North Georgia at the Captain D's Classic hosted by UNG. The Chargers slip to 15-4 on the season.
 
In the first game, the Chargers erased a 3-0 deficit and scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to pull ahead as Megan Billingsley, Stephanie Needham, and Cortney McNett each drove a run in during the frame that saw UAH send nine batters to the plate.
 
Columbus State answered with a run in the top frame of the sixth which ultimately forced the extra frame, and CSU pulled ahead by three with a big eighth inning that appeared to put the game out of reach.
 
Mary Kelley singled in Stephanie Needham, however, to pull the Blue and White back within two, and Kelley scored later on a groundout to cut the Charger deficit to just one run, but the comeback effort wound up just short.
 
Whitney Toler (7-2) picked up the loss in the circle.
 
The game with the country's second-ranked team was a tighter affair for much of the game as North Georgia scored the only run of the first five innings in the bottom of the second.
 
The Chargers took advantage of North Georgia errors in the top half of the sixth to score three runs and pulled ahead, but miscues of their own did UAH in during the bottom half of the frame as North Georgia crossed the plate seven times to produced the 8-3 final.
 
Whitney Gilbert (4-2) took the loss.
 
UAH will square off against the two teams again on Sunday, facing CSU at 10 a.m. before taking on UNG again at 2 p.m.