PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Sunday series finale between No. 17 West Florida and Alabama Huntsville was a back-and-forth contest, decided by late home runs from the visiting side. UWF (22-11, 15-6 Gulf South Conference) fell 4-3 in eight innings.
 
Teala Howard scored the first run of the day after dropping a bunt single and stealing second base in the first inning, giving her a GSC-best 25 steals on the season. After a Kayla Mayo sacrifice bunt, Erin Moon drove in Howard with a sharp two-out single up the middle.
 
The Chargers got two runs back and took a lead in the second inning, but the Argonauts responded in the bottom of the third with a squeeze bunt from Mayo that scored Kayanna Perez, who singled and stole second. That play would even the game up until the fourth, when a Kelsey Hodges grounder bounced off the glove of UAH third baseman Gracie Green and allowed pinch-runner Laurynn Boggs to score the go-ahead run.
 
The teams traded zeroes in the fifth and sixth innings, before UAH got solo home runs from Kaylee Vaught and Eve Mallard in the seventh to tie the game and in the eighth to take the lead.
 
The UWF pitching staff was solid on Sunday, beginning with starting pitcher Kelsey Sweatt. Sweatt threw three good innings with three strikeouts and no walks, allowing just three hits and two runs.
 
Freshman Jeya Prasad followed with two innings of scoreless relief, picking up a pair of strikeouts with just one hit allowed. Montana Young was charged with the loss – her first of the year – after throwing three innings of relief and allowing two runs.  
 
Moon led UWF with three RBIs over the weekend, and Howard's four hits and .400 batting average were team-highs in the series.
 
Kayanna Perez had two hits for West Florida in the game, marking her first multi-hit game of the season.
 
West Florida gets back to action on Wednesday with a midweek doubleheader at Spring Hill in Mobile, Alabama, and will head to Cleveland, Mississippi, for a series with Delta State over the weekend.