ALBERTVILLE, Ala. | The University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team took both games of the Sunday doubleheader against Union, winning 3-2 in walk-off fashion in eight innings and 10-4 in the nightcap to sweep the series. UAH improves to 11-4 (3-3 Gulf South Conference), while UU falls to 5-11 (2-4 GSC).
 
UAH is back in action on Wednesday when the team travels to Montevallo for a non-conference doubleheader that is slated for a 2 p.m. start.
 
UAH 3, Union 2
A Kaylee Vaught groundout in the seventh tied the game, and Jada Thompson doubled in the eighth with an error allowing Heather Thompson to score on the play and give the Chargers the walk-off victory – their third of the season at Sand Mountain Park.
 
The win comes despite being outhit for a second straight game, this time by a 7-4 margin, but Megan Shurtz would limit the damage by stranding 10 Union batters in the contest.
 
In moving to 4-1 on the season, Shurtz went the distance in the circle allowed just the two runs while striking out a UAH season-high eight batters. 
 
Two of UAH's hits were for extra bases as Lila Young also had a double in addition to Henderson's, and Thompson and Lawren Hayes were the owners of the Blue and White's other hits.
 
Union scored a run in each of the second and third innings to go up 2-0, sand the Chargers would cut their deficit in half when Alaina Hampton grounded out to score Henderson in the fourth, and UAH would tie the game in the seventh when Vaught earned her team-leading 17th RBI of the season on the productive grounder.
 
After Shurtz stranded a pair of runners in the top of the eighth, Kiara Akles was hit by a pitch and lifted for the pinch-runner Thompson, and Henderson then stepped up and smacked an 0-2 pitch into left, with a throwing error on the play allowing Thompson to scamper all the way home from first to give UAH the win.
 
UAH 10, Union 4
The Chargers pounded out nine hits in the nightcap compared to the seven Union recorded, and it was a pair of big innings late that provided UAH with the comfortable margin of victory.
 
Henderson was 2-for-3 with a pair of walks, scoring three times and driving in a run in the game, and she is now .438 on the season and riding a four-game hitting streak.
 
Shelby Booker, Akles, Hampton, Mackenzie Nutt, Hayes, and Sadie Thompson all notched an RBI in the contest as the offensive effort was balanced up and down the lineup card.
 
Both Henderson and Hampton had a double in the contest, and Vaught picked up her third triple of the season.
 
The double for Hampton is her team-best seventh of the season.
 
Jessie Cole started the contest for the Chargers in the circle and allowed just one hit in two innings while also getting a strikeout, and Layton Murphy tossed the final five frames, scattering six hits and striking out three while giving up four runs of which just three were earned.
 
Murphy is now 4-3 on the season.
 
Hampton's double in the second gave the Chargers an early 1-0 lead, but Union would score three times in the fourth to go in front 3-1.
 
Hayes cut UAH's deficit in half by scoring Nutt with a single in the bottom half of the fourth, and the Chargers would go in front with three runs in the fifth to retake the lead before putting up a five spot in the sixth after Union got a run of their own in the top half.