Lady Mocs Shut Out Villanova 8-0 In Six

3/9/2007 7:00:00 PM | By: GoMocs.com

Hardees Game Day Wrap-Up

Box Score

Clearwater, Fla. ? The Lady Mocs (15-13) shut out Villanova 8-0 Saturday afternoon in six innings to win Pool B and advance to gold bracket play.

Chattanooga had nine hits and no errors and were walked eight times, including three runs scored off of walks.

Freshman pitcher Brooke Loudermilk (Locust Grove, Ga.) pitched her fourth shutout of the season with seven strikeouts on 20 batters faced and three assists. She improves her record to 10-4 on the season.

Senior left fielder Jeannie Cochran (Maryville, Tenn.) reached on a walk before advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore center fielder Ashley Cuticchia (Rising Fawn, Ga). Cochran scored on a senior first baseman Alyssa Edwards (Geneva, N.Y.) single up the middle to put the Lady Mocs up 1-0 after one.

The second inning started off in the same fashion. Senior second baseman Brittney Whittier (Scottsdale, Ariz.) walked to lead off before sophomore Toni Hutchison (Madison, Tenn.) sent her to second on a single to the shortstop. But both runners were left on at the end of two with the score still sitting at 1-0.

Junior right fielder Tara Tembey (Folsom, Calif.) stole the show in the third inning with her two-out triple sending Cuticchia home to make the score 2-0. Cuticchia reached on a single to left field before advancing to second on an error. Freshman shortstop Tia Blosser (Knoxville, Tenn.) sent Cuticchia to third on her sacrifice bunt before Tembey's hit.

Whittier picked up her first RBI of the day sending Tembey home on a single up the middle to make the score after three 3-0.

The team picked up its second double play of the year on a popped up bunt to the pitcher and a throw to Whittier at first to record the first two outs of the fourth. Loudermilk threw her fifth strikeout of the game to retire the inning.

The Lady Mocs continued to get the lead off batter on base in the bottom of the fourth with freshman catcher Lynleigh Hurndon (McDonough, Ga.) reaching on a hit to the right side. She advanced to second on Cochran's ground out but was caught stealing third to end the inning with the score still sitting at 3-0.

Chattanooga chalked up another double play on a ground out to the second baseman before turning a throw to first to garner the first two outs before a foul ball to Hutchison ended the inning.

Leading off in the bottom of the sixth, Whittier hit a single to right field to make the team perfect for getting the lead off batters on base each of the six innings. Hutchison sent Whittier to second on her single to right field before both runners advanced on a wild pitch.

Hurndon reached on a walk before freshman pinch runner Nicole D'Apice (Knoxville, Tenn.) came in the game. All three runners advanced on another wild pitch scoring Whittier to make the score 4-0 with one out.

The Lady Mocs scored another run after Cutcchia reached on a walk to load the bases and Blosser walked scoring Hutchison. D'Apice scored on Edwards' walk, Cuticchia scored on Tembey's walk and Edwards scored on a Whittier single up the middle making the score 8-0 and giving the team its seventh RBI of the game.

The Lady Mocs sealed the No. 1 seed in Pool B with the win and will face off against the No. 2 seed from Pool C at 4:00 p.m.

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