HUNTSVILLE | The No. 19 University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team picked up its second conference series win in as many weekends, blowing past West Georgia 10-2 in six innings on Sunday afternoon in the rubber match between the two teams. UAH improves to 13-5 (4-2 Gulf South Conference), while UWG slips to 7-8 (2-4 GSC).
 
Game Changer
-With the game tied at 1-1 in the third, the Chargers sent eight batters to the plate and received timely run-producing hits from Brooke Miller, Sarah Jordan, and Ashley Cornell to take a 5-1 lead en route to the comfortable victory.
 
Inside the Box Score
-The Chargers pounded out 17 hits in the contest led by Kaitlyn Bannister, Taylor Wascavage, and Jordan who all had three, while Ashley Cornell added a pair.
-Erin Jewell led the team with three RBI – all of which came on one swing of the bat in the sixth as she belted a three-run homer that ended the contest.
-Both Bannister and Cornell drove in a pair of runs in the contest.
-Jordan crossed the plate three times to lead the team in runs, while Wascavage and Jewell both scored twice.
-Emily Glover picked up her eighth win of the season in the circle, tossing four innings and scattering six hits while giving up just one earned run, and Tyler Harrison pitched the final two frames, striking out three batters and giving up just one hit.
 
Key Plays
-West Georgia scored the first run of the game in the first, and the score would still be 1-0 in the bottom of the second when the Chargers worked some two-out magic with Jordan doubling before both Cornell and Haley Thompson walked to load the bases for Bannister who singled on a hard liner to short to plate Jordan and knot the contest at 1-1.
-UAH then had the big third inning with Wascavage and Cornell both doubling in the inning, while Miller and Jordan had singles in the frame that saw Wascavage, Miller, Jewell and Jordan all cross the plate as UAH took a 5-1 lead.
-In the bottom of the fourth, Wascavage ripped her second double of the game to score Bannister and make it a 6-1 lead, and though UWG would score a run in the fifth, the hosts would get the run back and carry a 7-2 lead into the sixth off a sac fly from Bannister.
-The contest then ended in the bottom of the sixth as Wascavage and Reagan Malone singled before Jewell's three-run bomb put the run rule in effect with the Chargers winning 10-2.
 
Noteworthy
-The home run for Jewell is the first of the freshman's career, and it marks the second homer by a UAH freshman this season.
-Wascavage now ranks second on the team in doubles as her season total is now four.
-The three-hit day for Jordan represents a career-best in the Blue and White for the senior, and it is her first multi-hit game of the season.
-Bannister is now hitting .561 on the season which is the second-best mark in the GSC.
 
Next Time Out
-The Chargers will be back in action next weekend as the team ventures back on the road for a three-game league set at Christian Brothers. The Saturday doubleheader is slated for a first pitch at 1 p.m.