MEMPHIS | The No. 16 University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team picked up a doubleheader sweep at Christian Brothers on Saturday, winning 15-3 in the opening game before picking up a 4-0 victory in the nightcap. The Chargers improve to 15-5 (6-2 Gulf South Conference) with the pair of wins, while CBU slips to 4-15 (0-8 GSC).
 
Next Time Out
-The Chargers will wrap up the series on Sunday with the first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
UAH 15, Christian Brothers 3
 
Game Changer
-The Chargers matched a program record with five home runs in the game with each of Kaitlyn Bannister, Erin Jewell, Taylor Wascavage, Brooke Miller, and Reagan Malone having long flies in the contest to help lead UAH to the victory.
 
Inside the Box Score
-The Chargers pounded out 20 hits in the contest compared to just six for the Lady Bucs, and Miller led the team as she went 4-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored.
-Other multi-hit performances came from Bannister and Wascavage who both had three hits in the game, while Haley Thompson, Jewell, and Ashley Cornell all had a pair.
-Joining Miller with three RBI in the game were Malone and Bannister, while Wascavage and Burden both knocked in a pair.
-Wascavage scored a team-best three times in the contest, while Thompson, Miller, and Cornell each scored twice.
-Picking up the win in the circle for the Chargers was Taylor Doriety who pitched 4.0 innings of quite effective relief, surrendering just one hit while striking out four and walking one, and Tyler Harrison started the game, giving up no hits in two frames while picking up a pair of strikeouts.
 
Key Plays
-The scoring started for the Chargers in the first when Wascavage knocked in her first run of the game, but the guests would really set the tone for the game in the top of the second Thompson doubled in a run before Bannister belted a three-run bomb to make it 5-0.
-After Jewell homered with a solo shot in the third to put the Chargers ahead 6-0, the home team would score three times in the bottom half of the inning to pull back within three.
-UAH immediately answered though in the fourth when a two-run jack from Wascavage and a solo shot from Miller put the Chargers ahead 9-3, and the score would remain that way until the top of the seventh when the team sent 10 batters to the plate in a six-run inning.
 
Noteworthy
-UAH has now had five home runs in a game on six different occasions with the most recent game prior to Saturday coming on April 5, 2014, at Valdosta State.
-Bannister now has 28 RBI on the year, and she owns 228 for her career which is now just one off of third all-time in UAH history and just five from matching Melanie Carter's record of 233.
-Jewell's homer is her second in as many games, while Wascavage, Malone, and Miller notch their first long flies of the season.
-The home runs for Malone and Miller also mark the first of their collegiate careers.
 
UAH 4, Christian Brothers 0
 
Game Changer
-Emily Glover was masterful in the circle, tossing the complete game shutout while striking out 13 and giving up just two hits en route to her ninth victory of the season.
 
Inside the Box Score
-The Chargers outhit the Lady Bucs 11-2 in the contest with Jada Hayes having a big 3-for-3 showing at the plate, while Bannister and Wascavage were both 2-for-4.
-Harrison drove in a team-high two runs in the game.
 
Key Plays
-UAH jumped in front in the first when Bannister and Wascavage singled, allowing them to score later in the frame when Harrison doubled them in to put the Chargers ahead 2-0.
-The score remained that way until the top half of the sixth when Jewell scored on an error on base hit by Hayes, and the scoring in the frame was completed later in the frame when Thompson doubled in Hayes to produce the eventual 4-0 final.
 
Noteworthy
-Glover's 13 strikeouts represent a new career-high for the senior, and she extends her hold on the GSC lead in strikeouts with 65 now on the year.
-The three-hit outing for Hayes is a season-best for the sophomore, and it matches her career-high set last year at Union on April 22.