{"id":274316,"date":"2026-05-17T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274316\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:21:15","slug":"chargers-walk-off-west-florida-to-advance-to-ncaa-south-super-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274316\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Walk Off West Florida to Advance to NCAA South Super Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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PENSACOLA, Fla. | The UAH softball team earned a 5-4 extra-inning victory over West Florida on Friday afternoon in the NCAA South Regional 2 at the UWF Softball Complex.<\/p>\n

West Florida struck first in the opening inning with an RBI double, but the Chargers answered in the third inning to take control of the contest. Jill Cockrell<\/a> scored on a passed ball to tie the game before Kylie Ballentine<\/a> launched a three-run home run to left field, scoring Mia Brown<\/a> and Alexa Douthitt<\/a> to give UAH a 4-1 advantage.<\/p>\n

The Argonauts battled back in the fifth inning, scoring three runs on a pair of RBI hits to even the score at 4-4 and eventually force extra innings.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Keli Madden<\/a> delivered the game-winning moment for the Chargers with a solo home run to right field, lifting UAH to the walk-off victory.<\/p>\n

Ballentine led the Chargers offensively, finishing 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. Cockrell also reached base three times with a triple and two walks, while Douthitt and Gracie Ashley<\/a> each added doubles.<\/p>\n

In the circle, Katie Bracken<\/a> (14-5) earned the complete-game victory after tossing all 8.0 innings, allowing four runs on seven hits while striking out eight batters.<\/p>\n

UAH will return to action Thursday, May 21, in the NCAA South Super Regional against No. 1 seed Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Fla. The best-of-three series will determine a berth in the NCAA Division II Softball Championship Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Game: vs. Saint Leo 5\/21\/2026 | May. 21 (Thu) vs.\u00a0Saint Leo …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-274316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}