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LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The University of West Alabama softball team won both games in dramatic fashion as the Tigers swept No. 10 North Alabama, 7-6 and 2-1, in a Gulf South Conference doubleheader Saturday at the UWA Softball Complex.
 
Michal Robertson drilled a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh to left the Tigers to the win in game one and center fielder Stephanie Shoup threw out the tying run at the plate to end game two and preserve the sweep.
 
“We had two great team wins today,” UWA head coach Will Atkinson said. “We took care of the ball and got timely hits. When we needed a big play we had folks who stepped up and made them.”
 
With the sweep the Tigers have won six straight games and improved to 29-16 overall and 16-14 in GSC play. UNA, the top-ranked team in the NCAA Division II South Region, dropped to 38-14 and 21-11. The Tigers close the regular season Sunday at 2 p.m. by hosting Union in a doubleheader.
 
Robertson's game-winner was her seventh homer of the season and came after North Alabama had scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game at 6-6. Brooklynn Phillips, Taylor Miller and Anna Shartzer drove in two runs each in a six-run sixth for the Tigers, putting UWA up 6-4.
 
“It was a perfect pitch to hit,” Robertson said after the first walk-off home run of her career. “You always have that thought in the back of your mind that something like this can happen and today it did.”
 
In addition to her defensive play to end game two, Shoup accounted for both Tiger runs in the nightcap with a two-run triple in the third inning. Shartzer also had a pair of hits for UWA in the second game.
 
“It was senior day and time to pick it up because at this point every play matters,” Shoup, a senior from Oviedo, Fla., said of her triple. “That play at the plate at the end of the game is something we do every day in practice. It's just a matter of staying calm and getting a good throw to the plate.”
 
UWA starting pitchers Sarah Ray (17-6) and Ashley Osier (5-0) both went the distance for the wins. UNA starters Breanna Riley (18-5) and Haley Barnette (11-8) absorbed the losses. Osier allowed one unearned run while scattering six hits in the longest outing of her UWA career.
 
Callie Steadman had three hits and drove in three runs for the Lions in game one. Dani Colwell had a double and two RBI for UNA, who finishes the regular season at Alabama-Huntsville on Sunday.