ALBERTVILLE, Ala. | The No. 23 University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team continued its perfect play at the 2022 Chillout presented by Marshall County Tourism & Sports in dramatic fashion on Saturday, winning 4-3 in walk-off fashion against Spring Hill before scoring five times in the seventh for another walk-off victory in a 5-4 decision over Southern Indiana. UAH is now 7-1 on the season.
 
UAH will wrap up play at the event on Sunday when the team takes on Kentucky Wesleyan. That contest is now slated for a 3 p.m. start as the preceding games will now begin at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. due to expected cold conditions.
 
UAH 4, Spring Hill 3
 
It was two-out magic in the bottom of the seventh for the Chargers, with the excitement started by Lila Young who tripled into the gap in right, allowing her to score when Alaina Hampton singled into left to give the Chargers the victory.
 
UAH finished the contest with nine hits to Spring Hill's four, and both Shelby Booker and Hampton had a two-hit game, with Hampton also driving in a team-high pair. 
 
Hampton's other hit came on an inside-the-park homer, the first round-tripper of the year for the Gadsden, Alabama, native.
 
Megan Shurtz earned the win for UAH, tossing five innings of relief while scattering four hits and allowing just a pair of runs while striking out six and walking none. Shurtz is now 2-0 on the season with an 0.93 ERA.
 
The Chargers claimed the first lead of the game in the second when Kaylee Vaught reached on an error that allowed Gracie Green to score, but Spring Hill would answer in the next frame, scoring three times to go up 3-1.
 
Hampton's scamper around the bags would come in the third to pull UAH within a run, and Mackenzie Nutt then knocked in the tying run in the fourth as Sadie Thompson scored to make it 3-3.
 
Shurtz then worked around a leadoff single in the fifth and retired the side in order in both the sixth and seventh to set up the last at-bat victory.
 
UAH 5, Southern Indiana 4
 
It was all Southern Indiana in the day's second contest – that is until UAH's final turn at-bat.
 
The Chargers found themselves trailing 4-0 going into the final inning, and the team was trailing 4-2 with two outs before managing to fully complete the comeback.
 
It was again Hampton who provided the biggest swing of the bat, as her double with the bases loaded plated all three and gave the Chargers a second-straight walk-off.
 
Seven different UAH players accounted for the team's eight hits with Booker turning another two-hit performance to move her batting average to .429 on the year which is second to Vaught's .467.
 
Hampton now has seven RBI on the year which is second to the total of eight registered by Vaught.
 
Shelby Waldrop picked up her first win as a Charger after tossing the seventh in relief of Jessie Cole who went four innings in relief herself, allowing just three hits and no runs while striking out a pair.
 
Southern Indiana scored twice in the first and added runs in the third and seventh to build up its 4-0 lead, while the Chargers left a pair of runners on in the first and fifth innings in addition to leaving another on in both the second and fourth.
 
The Chargers would end up sending eight to the plate in the bottom half of the seventh, and the first RBI of the frame came off the bat of Shurtz who pinch hit and knocked in Laura Harbin who had walked after working an eight-pitch at-bat to start the inning, and Vaught would make it 4-2 when she reached on a fielder's choice that plated Green who had singled earlier in the frame.
 
After the second out of the inning was record, Heather Phillips singled and Lila Young walked to load the bases, and Hampton then won the game as she doubled on a 1-1 count to force in all three to create the 5-4 final.