Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DAHLONEGA, Ga. | The third-ranked University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team earned a strong split on the road at fourth-ranked North Georgia on Wednesday night, winning 9-1 in the first game before falling 7-4 in the nightcap. UAH moves to 34-7, while North Georgia goes to 41-9.
 
The Chargers fell behind in the first game 1-0 after North Georgia plated a run in the bottom of the first, but UAH responded with a pair of runs in the second to take a 2-1 lead and then blew the game wide open by sending 12 batters to the plate in the third and scoring seven times to go in front by an eight-run advantage at 9-1.
 
The game opened up in the third, as the Chargers marched seven consecutive batters up to the plate before UNG recorded the first out of the inning. Macie Couey started the rally with a lead-off double, which was followed by an RBI-single by Mary Kelley. Kelley notched a game-high three RBIs in the contest, as she also came through with the bases loaded to drive home two more.
 
A total of four players recorded a multi-hit game, as Kelley, Couey, Kaitlyn Bannister and Haley Thompson each finished with two hits in the game. UAH finished with 12 hits in the game, doubling up UNG who finished with just six.
 
The eight-run victory marks the eighth time this season the Chargers have defeated their opponent by eight runs or more.
 
Whitney Toler (7-2) earned her second straight complete-game victory as she scattered six hits in the five innings of work, allowing just one earned run against the Nighthawks.
 
In the nightcap, the Chargers battled back from a three-run deficit, putting together another significant inning as the team sent eight batters to the plate in the fourth and scored three runs to knot the contest up at 3-3 as Kelley, Bannister, and Mallory McNeal all drove in runs in the inning, and the visitors went in front when Bannister recorded a sacrifice fly in the top of the fifth to make it 4-3.
 
The lead was unfortunately short-lived, however, as North Georgia would answer back with a four-run bottom of the fifth to go ahead 7-4, and the hosts then rode the momentum from wiggling out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the sixth on its way to securing the victory.
 
Taylor Doriety (7-2) picked up the loss in the circle for UAH.
 
UAH outhit North Georgia 8-6 in the nightcap as Kelley recorded a pair to extend her hitting streak to 15 games, and McNeal also notched a pair in the contest.
 
The Chargers will now travel to Union this weekend for a three-game set as the team wraps up road action in Gulf South Conference play.