LIVINGSTON, Ala. | The 10th-ranked University of Alabama in Huntsville split its Saturday doubleheader at West Alabama on Saturday, winning 10-6 before falling 4-3. UAH is now 36-12 (22-8 Gulf South Conference), while UWA is 19-25 (11-20 GSC).
 
The two teams will wrap up the series on Sunday at 2 p.m.
 
The Chargers jumped out to a significant advantage in the first game, scoring twice in the first, four times in the second, and twice again in the fourth to build up an 8-0 lead, but the hosts rattled off six runs of their own in the next three innings to make it an 8-6 contest heading into the seventh.
 
Victoria Frith and Abby Roberts then drove in runs for UAH in the top of the last to push the Chargers back ahead comfortably at 10-6 before Taylor Doriety retired the side in order to end the game in the bottom half.
 
Doriety pitched three innings of relief of starter Tyler Harrison, working around three hits and striking out a pair. Harrison saw her string of complete games come to an end, surrendering five runs on six hits in four innings, but she earned the win, moving her staff-best record to 14-3.
 
UWA outhit UAH by a 9-7 clip, but the Chargers did draw a season-high nine walks in the game. Roberts drove in a pair of runs, while Kaitlyn Bannister, Victoria Crumpton, and Haley Thompson each scored twice.
 
Roberts opened the scoring in the second game, belting a solo shot for her third home run of the season to lead off the second inning, but UWA would respond with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning and another in the third to go in front 3-1.
 
Pulling the visitors back within one in the fifth, Frith led off the inning with a walk, moved to second on a Thompson sacrifice bunt, and stole third to allow her to score on a groundout off the bat of Brianna Sullivan to make it 3-2.
 
UWA again had a response, scoring in the fifth, and though Harrison would double in a run in the sixth, West Alabama would hang on for the win.
 
In the nightcap, hits were even at 7-7, and Sullivan and Crumpton both had a pair to lead the Chargers.
 
One of Sullivan's hit was a triple to give the junior her first of the season.