South Alabama rallied to defeat Missouri’s Mineral Area 5-1 to pick up its second win of the 2011 Babe Ruth 12U Softball World Series Friday night.

South Alabama picked up its first win of the tournament Friday morning with a 9-6 win over Franklin, La.

South Alabama 5, Mineral Area 1

South Alabama picked up their second win Friday night to go 2-0 as they defeated Mineral Area 5-1.

South Alabama coach Candace Tucker said her team finally put things together Friday night in the win.

“We have been struggling the last two games at hitting the ball, bunting the ball and putting the ball in play and we finally did that tonight,” Tucker said. “We finally put it all together and hit the ball a little bit. Our defense looked great and our pitching looked better than it did last night. We just finally put all the facets of the game together. We made a complete game.”

Tucker said the team had to switch to play more “small ball” late in the game.

“In the fifth inning we had to go to a little small ball to get some things fired up,” she said. “We got some big hits and Katlynn Schively pitched a great game and came up with a big hit there and scored two runs for us. So we put the ball in play with small ball and came up with the big hits when we needed it.”

After a scoreless first three innings, Missouri struck first with one run in the bottom of the fourth.

South Alabama then used a four-run rally in the top of the fifth to take a 4-1 lead. South Alabama added one more run in the top of the sixth and held Mineral Area scoreless in the bottom of the inning to get the win.

Schively earned the win, going six innings, and allowing one earned run, one hit, walked two and struck out 12.

At the plate, Santana Hamrac had two hits and one RBI while Schively had a double and two RBIs.

South Alabama 9, Franklin, La. 6

South Alabama’s Colby Adams allowed no runs on one hit and struck out three in three innings to help lead the host team to its first victory of the tournament on Friday.

Hayden Willis and Adams scored two runs each, and Schively, Sarah Langford, Taylor McGhee, Santana Hamrac and Brentley Armstrong added one run each in the win.

The host team scored four runs in the first inning, added two runs each in the third and fourth innings, and one run in the sixth.

Willis was 2-for-3 for South Alabama.

Franklin’s Ashlee Meyerholtz was 1-for-3 with two RBIs.