Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Ben Hall's five RBIs and clutch day led the 29th-ranked University of Alabama in Huntsville baseball team to a doubleheader split on Saturday to 2nd-ranked West Florida at Charger Park. UAH took game one 7-4 before the Argos bounced back to split the day with a 5-1 victory in game two.
 
The Chargers (17-7, 8-3 GSC) gave the visiting Argonauts (17-3, 12-1 GSC) their first conference loss of the season and also snapped their 12-game winning streak in the process.
 
Game 1: UAH-7 UWF-4
The junior Hall was as clutch as it gets for UAH in the first game of the day, going a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with five RBIs and a double. Hall contributed six of the seven runs scored for the Chargers, knocking in five and scoring one.
 
West Florida took an early 1-0 lead right away in the first after an illadvised throw got away, allowing the first run of the game to come home. UAH would soon have a response in the bottom of the second inning when Hall lined a two-out single to center to tie the game at 1-1 after Ryan Barnes scored.
 
With two runners and two outs in the inning, it was again Hall who came through with a double. His second hit of the day was scorched down the right field line and Chris Brown came in to score the go-ahead run. He would record his third and fourth RBIs in the sixth inning, when he placed one into the grass in right field. A key West Florida error helped keep the inning alive for the Chargers.
 
As Tyler Howell continued to mow down the Argonaut lineup, throwing seven-straight shutout innings to allow his offense to get up on the visitors, Hall picked up his fifth RBI in the eighth inning with a dribbler in the infield to push the lead up to 5-1.
 
Howell moved his unblemished record to 5-0 on the season, after finishing with three strikeouts and four earned runs, three of which came in the ninth inning.
 
Jud Sherrill would give the Chargers some insurance in the eighth, after the first baseman drove one back up the middle with two runners on notch a pair of RBIs. UAH would score three runs in all in the inning.
 
UWF would score three of its own in the ninth inning, but the UAH lead would prove to be too much and the Chargers picked up an important win in game one.
 
Barnes and Blake Massey each went 2-for-4 in the game to contribute to UAH's 13 hits in total.
 
Game 2: UWF-5 UAH-1
Argos' hard-throwing lefty Jordan DeLorenzo continued his dominance on the mound this season, throwing a complete-game win to earn the split. DeLorenzo struck out eight UAH batters and carried a perfect game into the fourth inning.
 
UWF jumped on top immediately in the first inning, after a pair of RBI-doubles gave the 2nd-ranked team in the country a 2-0 lead. That would be all DeLorenzo would need, even though the Argos would add runs in the third, fourth and seventh innings to go up 5-0 before the Chargers finally scored their only run of the game in the ninth.
 
Alex Aultman picks up the loss for UAH, throwing 6.0 innings and allowing four earned runs. Aultman did go on to strike out seven hitters. Colton Simbeck was the only Charger to record a multi-hit game, going 2-for-2 in the contest.
 
The series-deciding game three will take place tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. back at Charger Park.