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Softball Off to North Carolina for First Road Conference Series

Softball Off to North Carolina for First Road Conference Series

| By: GoMocs.com
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Lady Mocs have begun to play their best softball of the season just at the right time. Chattanooga (11-11/3-0 SoCon) has won six games in a row, including a three-game sweep of conference foe Furman this past weekend. Tiffany Baker provided the offense during the weekend, hitting .600 with a home run and driving in two runs.

The UTC pitching staff was near perfection as the team allowed only one unearned run in the set. Michelle Fuzzard threw the second complete-game shutout of the season, while Brooke Loudermilk recorded her first win of the campaign.

Now the team will look to continue its season-long winning streak as the team heads to North Carolina for a three-game series with UNC Greensboro (9-12/2-1 SoCon). The Lady Mocs will look to continue its regular season dominance over the Spartans, as UTC has not lost a series to UNCG since the 2003 campaign.

Head coach Frank Reed finished the team's sweep of Furman on the verge of another milestone in his long, illustrious career. Reed enters the weekend as the winningest coach in program history and is only three wins shy of 300, a feat he will look to accomplish with a sweep of the Spartans.

Lady Mocs/Spartans History
Series Record: UTC leads 37-8 (.822)
In Greensboro, N.C.: UTC leads 12-4 (.750)
In Chattanooga: UTC leads 22-3 (.880)
At Neutral Sites: UTC leads 3-1 (.750)
Current Streak: UTC - W1
First Meeting: 3-22-97 (W, 5-0 @ Rock Hill, S.C.)
Last Meeting: 5-10-08 (W, 3-0 @ Charleston, S.C.)

Scouting the Spartans
UNC-Greensboro enters its conference home opener at 2-1 in the SoCon after taking 2-of-3 from Western Carolina this past weekend.  On the season the Spartans are 9-12 and are tied with Georgia Southern with a .283 team batting average, which leads the SoCon.

Emily Akiyama leads the team with a .349 batting average and is tied with two other Spartans with two home runs. Hannah Angel is UNCG's leader in the circle with a 5-5 record and 2.53 ERA.

Previous Meeting
Sophomore pitcher Brooke Loudermilk pitched a complete game shutout and junior outfielder Laci Upchurch belted a two-run home run as No. 1 seed Chattanooga (39-20) defeated No. 5 UNC Greensboro (23-33), 3-0 in the 2008 Southern Conference Tournament Saturday, May 10 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

The doubleheader between the Lady Mocs and Spartans is slated to begin at 1 p.m. from the UNCG Softball Stadium. Live stats for the entire series will be available at GoMocs.com.

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