HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville softball team dropped a non-conference doubleheader to visiting Montevallo on Wednesday at Charger Park, falling 6-5 in the first game before taking an 8-4 loss in the nightcap. UAH is now 17-13, while UM is 19-11.
 
The Chargers will remain at home this weekend, welcoming Mississippi College for a three-game series. Saturday's doubleheader will start at 1 p.m., and it will be Military Appreciation Day presented by Qualis Corporation.
 
Montevallo 6, UAH 5
Five runs scored by the visitors in the fifth and sixth innings proved to be the difference in the opener as the Falcons outhit UAH by a 13-8 margin.
 
Shelby Booker and Kaylee Vaught were both 2-for-4 with a double in the contest, with Booker scoring twice and Vaught also crossing the plate, and Kiara Akles had a two-run home run in addition to picking up a pair of free passes.
 
The home run for Akles is her team-best fourth of the year, and she now has 25 RBI.
 
Alaina Hampton drew a pair of walks and had a pair of RBI, and Lawren Hayes drew a base on balls and picked up an RBI.
 
Layton Murphy picked up the loss in the circle for UAH.
 
Akles started the scoring with the two-run shot down the left field line in the bottom of the first, and after the Falcons got a run in the top of the second, it would stay 2-1 until the fifth inning when Montevallo scored three times to go in front 4-2.
 
The guests then added to their lead with two runs in the sixth, though Hampton and Hayes would both draw bases-loaded walks in the home half of the sixth to make it a 6-4 game.
 
Hampton would take another free pass with the bags packed in the seventh, but Montevallo would wiggle out of the bases-loaded jam to secure the 6-5 win.
 
Montevallo 8, UAH 4
UAH would outhit the Falcons by an 11-9 margin in the second game, but eight left on base proved to be too much for the Chargers.
 
Gracie Green and Sadie Thompson joined Booker and Hampton in having three-hit showings in the second game, and Hampton had a homer, double, and three RBI.
 
Booker also added a double.
 
Grace O'Berry started the contest in the circle and took the setback.
 
The Falcons took a 5-0 lead after scoring a pair in the second and three more in the fourth before Hampton had a solo shot down the line in left to make it 5-1 after four.
 
The guests then tacked on three more, and it would stay 8-1 until Akles drove in one and Hampton knocked in a pair in the seventh to create the 8-4 final.
 
Hampton's homer is her second of the season, and she now has 19 RBI.