HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville men's lacrosse team is headed back to the title game, advancing to this year's championship contest at the Peach Belt Conference tournament after holding on for a 12-9 win over fourth-seeded Flager in the semifinals at Charger Park on a soggy Friday night.
 
Sunday's championship game is set for a 1 p.m. start, and it will be a rematch of the inaugural title showdown from last year when Montevallo was a 12-10 winner. 
 
Third-seeded Montevallo advanced to Sunday after upsetting second-seeded Lander 12-8 in the first semifinal game Friday.
 
Brody Phillips led the charge for UAH on Friday night, scoring four times while also adding two assists to feature a team-high six points. 
 
Three of the tallies for Phillips came in the first two quarters, part of a stretch of seven straight goals for the Chargers to open the contest before the Saints got on the board with 2:54 left in the second to produce an eventual 7-1 halftime score.
 
With the four goals, Phillips now has 26 on the year to go along with 16 assists and 42 points, and all three numbers lead the Chargers.
 
Brayden O'Neill and Phillips opened the scoring in the third before the teams traded goals to close out the period with UAH leading 11-3.
 
The first nearly 11 minutes of the fourth quarter then belonged to the visitors as Flagler showed strong fight in scoring six straight to cut its deficit to just two with 4:14 left in the contest.
 
The Saints threatened to make it a one-goal game, but Zak Welsh made the biggest off his 10 saves on the night with 2:23 left in the contest, and after another Flagler attempt hit the pipe in the final minute, Jake Schramm erased all doubt by scoring with 36 seconds left to seal the contest with the 12-9 final.
 
Schramm was one of three Chargers to finish with two points as each of he, Reid Vender, and Ryan Craig scored a goal and logged  an assist, while all of O'Neill, Kyle Light, Josh Campbell, Will Ford, and Trevor Redmond also scored.
 
Conor Young rounded out UAH's scorers with an assist.
 
Hunter Coleman picked up a team-high seven ground balls, while Alex Dorenkott added six.