MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Averett University softball's bats came alive to score 10 runs in the final three innings in a 10-4 win over Huntingdon College on Sunday in Game 2 of a doubleheader. The Hawks took Game 1 with a walk-off 2-1 win as the two conference foes split a non-conference twin bill.

Huntingdon (5-5) opened with a 2-0 advantage in Game 2 thanks to an RBI double and RBI single on back-to-back plays. That lead held up until Averett (4-2) came alive in the top of the fifth when the Cougars scored six runs on six hits and two errors to take the lead. Sophomore Zamyiah Mangum scored on a throwing error as Briana Harris stole second, and senior Kaitlyn Aherron helped tie it up with an RBI single to left-center. Sophomore Anna Coleman added a two-run double and senior Nicole Cauthen smacked a two-run single to allow Averett to surge ahead 6-2.

The Cougars added two more runs in the sixth with a solo homer from sophomore Kourtnie Blankenship — her first collegiate dinger — and another Aherron RBI single to extend the lead to 8-2. Huntingdon got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth with a two-RBI single. Yet, Averett responded with a two-run double from senior Mallory Griffiths to push the lead to 10-4.

Sophomore right-hander Hannah Thompson (2-0) closed out the win in the circle in the bottom of the seventh. Thompson pitched all seven innings.

Averett pounded out 14 hits in the nightcap, with sophomore Erin Rankin going 3-for-4. Aherron, Coleman, Cauthen and Griffiths each had two hits.

The Cougars bounced back from a tough 2-1 loss to Huntingdon in Game 1. Tied 1-1, Huntingdon took advantage of two seventh-inning errors to get a walk-off RBI single to right field with the bases loaded and two out.

The Hawks led 1-0 after scoring on a fielder's choice sac bunt in the second inning. Averett tied it 1-1 on Cauthen's pinch-hit RBI single up the middle in the top of the sixth to set up the finish in the seventh.

Thompson and sophomore Lauren Johnston each had two hits in Game 1.

Averett continues its road stretch at LaGrange College on Monday.