HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville women's basketball team continued its winning ways on Saturday, knocking off Montevallo 73-68 at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall. The Chargers improve to 13-8 (10-5 Gulf South Conference) with their sixth consecutive victory, while Montevallo falls to 16-6 (10-4 GSC).
 
Turning Point
-With Montevallo surging in the middle of the fourth quarter, the Chargers went on an 8-0 run that pushed the home team into a 65-52 lead with just over four minutes left, giving the squad a lead that would prove to be too significant to overcome.
 
Inside the Box Score
-Aryn Sanders led the Chargers in the victory offensively as she scored 21 points to go along with a team-high seven rebounds.
-Going 6-for-9 from the floor including a 5-of-8 showing from beyond the arc, Holly Harris poured in 18 points while matching Sanders with seven boards and collecting three steals.
-Rounding out UAH's double-figure contingent, Selena Pruitt scored 15, logged five rebounds, and also grabbed three steals.
-Emiline Payne handed out a team-high six assists.
-For the contest, the Chargers connected on 49.0 percent of their attempts while holding Montevallo to a 35.8 percent shooting mark.
-Rebounds in the contest were even at 38 for both teams.
 
Inside the Flow
-The Chargers stampeded out of the gates with back-to-back triples from Harris making it a 12-2 advantage for UAH at the 6:47 mark of the opening quarter, and though the Falcons would eventually knot the game at 19-19 with a strong push, Pruitt's layup in the final minute of the period made it a 22-19 lead for UAH going into the second.
-The home team would push the lead all the way back out to nine at 35-26 with 2:03 left in the second, and the Chargers went into the locker room up 36-31.
-Pruitt opened the third quarter with consecutive 3-pointers of her own to give the Chargers a 11-point margin, and UAH would lead by as many as 12 in the third on its way to carrying a 52-44 lead into the final stanza.
-UAH scored the first five points of the fourth to build up its largest lead of the night at 57-44, but an 8-0 run for Montevallo cut the deficit to 57-52 with 6:55 left in the game.
-After the Chargers would regain that 13-point advantage, the Falcons would twice pull within four including with 24 seconds left, but the guests could not narrow the margin any closer as UAH secured the 73-58 victory.
 
Noteworthy
-This is the sixth time this season that Sanders has scored at least 20 points, and she is now averaging 15.6 points per contest.
-The five 3-pointers for Harris match her season high as she also had five against Auburn Montgomery on Nov. 25.
-The Chargers held Montevallo under their season average in points per game (74.0) and field goal percentage (41.0).
-UAH is now alone in fourth place in the GSC standings and is just a half game out of third where the Falcons sit.
 
Next Time Out
-The Chargers will take on Martin Methodist on Tuesday in the first of two meetings this week. Tip-off at Kelly Court at Spragins Hall is slated for 5:30 p.m.