CLINTON, Miss. | The No. 13 University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team dropped a heartbreaker in extra innings on Sunday, falling 1-0 in nine innings in the series finale at Mississippi College. The Chargers slip to 12-6 (7-5 Gulf South Conference), while MC improves to 6-11 (5-7 GSC).
 
Game Changer
-A Morgan Bradford double with one out in the bottom of the ninth sent in the only run of the pitcher's duel to give the Choctaws the win.
 
Inside the Box Score
-The teams combined for just nine hits with MC picking up five to UAH's four.
-Layton Murphy was terrific in the circle for UAH, going the distance while allowing just the five hits and two walks, and she struck out five.
-Ashley Cornell was 2-for-4 at the top of the UAH lineup, with Mackenzie Nutt and Kaylee Vaught having the other two UAH hits.
-The Chargers did draw seven walks in the game, including a pair by both Kiara Akles and Regan Malone.
 
Key Plays
-UAH would threaten in each of the first three innings, but MC would get out of each frame by turning a double play.
-After giving up a hit to the first batter she faced, Murphy retired the next nine MC batters in order before giving up a walk to start the fourth, but she would sit down the next six straight before having to work around a leadoff single in the bottom of the sixth.
-UAH's most significant threat offensively came in the top of the eighth when the team would load the bases with two outs before the hosts induced a fly out to keep the game scoreless.
-Murphy would get out of a jam of her own in the home half, stranding a pair of runners.
-In the top of the ninth, the Chargers would get runners at second and third after Akles and Lila Young walked before advancing a station after a Vaught fly out, but a strikeout would end the inning, allowing MC to win the game in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Noteworthy
-The 8.1 innings mark the longest outing of Murphy's career in the Blue and White.
 
Next Time Out
-UAH will finally open up play at Charger Park next weekend when the team welcomes Auburn Montgomery for a three-game set that will start with a 3 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday.