HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville baseball team opened the 2019 home slate at Charger Park with a doubleheader sweep of McKendree on Saturday afternoon by scores of 12-4 and 3-2 to begin a three-game nonconference series. UAH improves to 4-4, while MU dips to 0-2.
 
Next Time Out
- UAH and McKendree have moved up first pitch to 11 a.m. at Charger Park on Sunday due to impending rain.
 
UAH 12, MU 4
Game-Changer
- Malave Bettinger and Nolan Ramsey each collected three RBI in the win to open the home slate, as UAH powered its way to a 12-4 victory over McKendree to open the series.
 
Scoring Breakdown
- McKendree took the first lead of the game with one run in the top of the first, but UAH turned the tables in the bottom half on an RBI double down the right field line by Ramsey who later scored on a wild pitch to make it 2-1 Chargers.
- UAH put together a four-run rally in the second to make it 6-1 Chargers, highlighted by RBI base hits by Ko Powell and Ramsey.
- The Chargers added three more runs in the fourth for a 9-1 lead, thanks to an RBI triple by Ramsey followed by RBI singles from Bettinger and Drake Hollingsworth.
- McKendree added one run apiece in the fifth and seventh to slim the UAH lead to 9-3, but the Chargers added three home runs in the bottom of the eighth – headlined by a two-run homer for Bettinger – to extend the hosts lead to 12-3.
- One run by the Bearcats in the bottom of the ninth brought the game to its 12-4 final.
 
Inside the Box Score
- Ramsey led the Chargers offense with a 4-for-5 performance with two runs scored, three RBI, two doubles and one triple.
- Bettinger finished second to Ramsey with two base hits in the contest, including a homer, three RBI, one run and one walk.
- Ramsey, Powell and Tyler McCown each scored two runs in the victory.
- McCown additionally had a team-high seven steals.
- The Chargers totaled 12 hits as a team, as eight different players recorded at least one base hit against the Bearcats.
- Whitt Davis started for the Chargers and improved to 1-0 on the season, after working 6.0 innings with one earned run allowed and five strikeouts.
- Harper Case picked up the save in his relief outing, tossing the final 3.0 innings with one earned run allowed and four strikeouts.
 
Noteworthy
- McCown now has a team-high five stolen bases this season, as he's yet to be caught stealing in 2019.
- Ramsey's four hits are a season-high for the season/
- in 15.0 innings this season, Davis has allowed one earned run and struck out 12 batters.
 
UAH 3, MU 2
­Game-Changer
- With the game tied at 2-2 with one out in the top of the fifth and McKendree threating with runners on second and third, Brooks Brophy came on in relief and allowed a walk followed by back-to-back flyouts to halt the Bearcats offense as UAH went ahead in the bottom half of the inning on the way to the 3-2 win.
 
Scoring Breakdown
- The Bearcats took the early lead in game two on Saturday with a two-run homer to right-center in the top of the first off the bat of Andrew Aydt.
- UAH cut the deficit in half in the bottom half of the first as Ramsey plated Ko Powell with a sacrifice fly to center.
- Both sides went scoreless in the second and third innings, until Zach Duvall tied the game at 2-2 with a sac fly in the fourth that scored Bettinger.
- Palmer Ford put the Chargers ahead for good with a RBI double to left in the fifth inning as UAH went on to take the nightcap by a 3-2 final.
 
Inside the Box Score
- The Chargers totaled five base hits in the contest, as Garrett Bodine, Bettinger, Ford, Ramsey and Powell each had a base hit.
- Bettinger, Bodine, Steven Milke and Colin Brewer had one walk apiece.
- Duvall, Ramsey and Ford each accounted for one of the Chargers three RBI in the game.
- Cody Morrow made the start on the mound for the Chargers, working 4.1 innings with two runs, no walks and five strikeouts.
- Brophy earned the win in relief, as he did not allow a hit in 1.2 shutout innings of work.
- Dylan Murphy notched his second save of the season by working a scoreless ninth with one strikeout.
 
Noteworthy
- The Chargers two wins today are the first back-to-back wins of the season for the team.
- Ford has recorded at least one base hit in seven of the Chargers eight games in 2019.