CLINTON, Miss. | The No. 16 University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team bounced back from a 1-0 setback in Saturday's first game in a big way with a 9-2 victory in the nightcap to avoid a series sweep at Mississippi College. The Chargers move to 32-13 (18-9 Gulf South Conference) with the split on Saturday, while the Choctaws go to 27-17 (18-9 GSC).
 
With two weeks of conference play left in the regular season, West Florida is in first by a single game ahead of four teams tied for second: UAH, Lee, Mississippi College, and Valdosta State.
 
Next Time Out
-UAH returns to Huntsville for the last regular season week at home as the squad will welcome Auburn-Montgomery on Thursday before hosting Union on Saturday and Sunday.
 
Mississippi College 1, UAH 0
 
Game Changer
-After the first three batters in the bottom of the seventh reached to load the bases and with two outs after Emily Glover induced an out on a fielder's choice and a strikeout, an error on a ball put in play by MC's Haley  Thompson allowed the winning run to score in the pitcher's duel.
 
Inside the Box Score
-Glover was charged with the tough-luck loss, going the 6.2 innings while allowing just three hits and working around three walks while striking out five, while Adrianna Morgan also allowed three hits, struck out five, and issued a walk.
-Erin Jewell went 2-for-2 and was also hit by a pitch to reach all three times, and Tyler Harrison had UAH's other hit.
 
Key Plays
-Both of the major threats in the game came in the seventh as in the top half of the inning Jewell singled, advanced to second on a passed ball and stood at third after a productive groundout from Jada Hayes, but Jewell would be stranded there after a liner to left from Reagan Malone ended the visiting half.
 
Noteworthy
-Coupled with a two-hit showing in the nightcap, Jewell now has six multi-hit games in the last 10 contests for the Chargers.
 
UAH 9, Mississippi College 2
 
Game Changer
-Glover set the tone early in the series finale, belting a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to put the Chargers up 4-0 in the top of the first.
 
Inside the Box Score
-The Chargers pounded out nine hits in the contest with Jewell's pair from the top of the order being matched by Ashley Cornell's two.
-Other hits for the Chargers came from Sarah Jordan, Kaitlyn Bannister, Caroline Burns, and Shannon Long.
-After striking out five times in the day's first game, the Chargers did not strike out in the nightcap and also drew four walks.
-The visitors recorded four hits for extra bases with doubles from Jewell and Long, while Bannister also homered.
 
Key Plays
-Jewell, Malone, and Harrison were all on base after Jewell singled and Malone and Harrison both walked before the Glover grand slam made it 4-0.
-The hosts got one of the runs back in the bottom of the first and made it a 4-2 game with another run in the third, but UAH regained its three-run advantage in the fifth when Bannister homered to put the guests ahead 5-2.
-The Chargers then busted the game wide open in the top half of the sixth as Caroline Burns, Jewell, and Jordan each drove in a run, and the eventual 9-2 final was produced in the seventh when Cornell recorded a run-scoring single.
 
Noteworthy
-The home run for Bannister is her 15th of the season, and in snapping a five-game streak in which she had not drove in a run, she logs her 54th RBI on the year.
-The grand slam is the second of Glover's career and the first since her freshman season when she hit one in the first inning of a 12-3 rout at Valdosta State.