HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville baseball team opened the week's slate with an 18-8 win in eight innings at Charger Park over visiting Tuskegee on Tuesday afternoon. UAH improves to 18-15, while TU dips to 6-23.
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Noteworthy
- With a solo homer in the bottom of the first,
AJ Walden became the program's career home run leader with 47 career round-trippers.
- Walden now has 10 homers this season, giving him at least 10 home runs in each of his four seasons with the Chargers.
- The Albertville, Alabama, native is now tied for first amongst active NCAA Division II players with 47 career home runs.
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Game Changer
- In the Chargers second-highest scoring effort so far this season,
Nolan Ramsey led the way for the Blue & White going 5-for-6 at the plate with a team-high six RBI which included a grand slam in the second and a game-ending two-RBI double in the eighth on the way to the 18-8 win Tuesday.
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Inside the Box Score
- The Chargers totaled 17 base hits in the victory, including a total of six multi-hit performances led by Ramsey with five.
- Walden followed Ramsey with a 3-for-4 performance including a team-high four runs in addition to two RBI, one walk and a home run.
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Tanner Burns,
Drake Hollingsworth,
Jay Copeland and
Austin Zeitler each had two base hits.
- Four Chargers had homers in the win, featuring Ramsey's grand slam, Walden's solo shot, Copeland's two-run homer and Zeitler's three-run round-tripper.
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Wes Anderson drew a team-high four walks with two runs scored, while both
Ben Rhodes and Zeitler had two walks apiece.
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Taylor Clemons earned the win on the mound in his starting performance in which he posted 5.0 innings with five earned runs allowed, one walk and six strikeouts.
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Parker Henson notched his first save at UAH after tossing the final 3.0 innings with one earned run allowed and one strikeout.
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Next Time Out
- UAH returns to action on Wednesday with a doubleheader at Charger Park against LeMoyne-Owen beginning at 1 p.m.