FLORENCE, Ala. | The No. 6 University of Alabama in Huntsville baseball team defeated rival No. 24 North Alabama by scores of 4-0 and 3-1 on Saturday afternoon to open the three-game, Gulf South Conference series at Mike D. Lane Field. The Chargers improve to 21-4-1 (13-4-1 GSC), while the Lions slip to 21-7 (10-6 GSC).

The Chargers benefitted from an outstanding performance in game one by left-hander Daniel Koger, as the Huntsville native hurled a season-best 11 strikeouts over 7.0 shutout innings of work. Koger improved to 7-0 with the win, which leads the GSC.

UAH went on to notch its fifth shutout of the season, with senior Luke Mould complementing Koger's outing with 2.0 scoreless innings of relief and three strikeouts.

Senior Chandler Brock put the Chargers in front early in game one with a two-run homer to left field, plating fellow senior Brandon Lawing on the play. Brock has five home runs this season and a total of 10 in his four-year career with the Blue and White.

Later on in the ninth inning, UAH was able to record a pair of insurance runs as AJ Walden hit a RBI double to right-center followed by a run scoring single by Ben Rhodes to put UAH ahead 4-0. Mould fanned a pair in the bottom of the ninth to seal the 4-0 win and give the right-hander his sixth save of the season.

Fifth-year head coach Hunter Royer's weekend rotation continued to work some magic in game two on Saturday, as southpaw Mitchell Wright twirled 6.1 shutout frames with 10 strikeouts and four hits allowed. Wright improved to 3-0 with the victory.

Both teams went scoreless through four full innings, but UAH was able to pull ahead on a RBI single by Tanner Cimo in the top of the fifth to plate Zach Dugas from second for the first run of the game. Ben Hall then extended the UAH lead to 3-0 with a two-RBI single down the right field line in the sixth, scoring Lawing from third and Brock from second.

Chris Kilpatrick came out of the bullpen with one out in the bottom of the seventh as UNA boarded a pair, and the right-hander allowed one run but closed out the 3-1 victory.

The UAH pitching staff has now twice this season bested the previous program record of 13.2 scoreless innings set in 2002, as the Chargers saw a stretch of 19.2 shutout innings from the fourth inning of the second game at Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to the bottom of the ninth in today's doubleheader. The program record was set earlier this season that spanned 35.0 innings from the sixth inning against Shorter (March 8) to fifth inning against West Florida (March 15).

UAH will look for the series sweep on Sunday at 1 p.m. against North Alabama in Florence.