CHATTANOOGA --- The Chattanooga Mocs softball team snapped their five-game losing streak, seven-straight SoCon games, with a 7-4 victory over Western Carolina on Sunday afternoon at Frost Stadium.

With the win, the Mocs are now 12-27 overall and 2-7 in the Southern Conference. Western Carolina falls to 10-21, 2-7 in SoCon action.

Chattanooga heads to Johnson City, Tenn., next weekend for a Friday and Saturday three-game series against ETSU.

Game Recap | Chattanooga 7, Western Carolina 4
Western Carolina opened the scoring in the top of the second with an RBI single, scoring a runner from third, to take an early 1-0 lead.

Chattanooga responded in the home half of the second with five runs on three hits on the help of three walks and a hit by pitch. After Emma Strudivant, Jesslyn Stockard and Aly Walker drew walks, Halie Williamson singled through the left side to score a run and leave the bases full. Hayleigh Weissenbach notched a single of her own to score another run and Amy Lewis followed with a bases loaded walk, bringing another run in. J.J. Hamill belted a single up the middle scoring two and extending the Mocs lead to 5-1.

The two teams traded runs in the third inning as the Catamounts scored an unearned run after a Mocs throwing error. Chattanooga scored when Lewis beat out a ground ball to shortstop with the bases loaded, allowing a run to score, and giving UTC a 6-2 advantage. The Mocs would add another run in the fifth on a Hamill RBI single to extend out a 7-2 lead.

WCU made things interesting in the top of the seventh when an RBI single cut their deficit to 7-3 while they eventually loaded the bases with one out a couple batters later. The game ended when a Catamount sacrifice fly to center field was overshadowed by a Weissenbach induced double play as she hauled in the fly and gunned a WCU runner out trying to take third, recording the game's final out, with a 7-4 score.

Celie Hudson (3-3) earned the win in the circle as she tossed a complete game, allowing eight hits, four runs (three earned) while striking out two and walking five.

Chattanooga belted ten hits in the win as Hamill led the way with a 2-for-4, 3 RBI day at the plat. Weissenbach and Lewis, the one and two hitters, went 2-for-4 (RBI) and 2-for-3 (2 RBI), respectively. Weissenbach, Lewis and Hamill, the top three hitters in the lineup, combined to go 6-for-11 with six RBIs. Stockard added a hit and a walk in a 1-for-2 day while Halie Williamson went 2-for-2 with an RBI and Amanda Beltran finished 1-for-3.

Season Stats & Notes Update Thru Sunday
- Halie Williamson went 2-for-2 with an RBI ... now hitting .346 (18-for-52) on the year ... team-best .433 on-base % ... hitting team-best .435 (10-for-23) with runners on base.
- Hayleigh Weissenbach finished 2-for-4 with an RBI ... now 38-for-118 (.322) ... second on team in hits ... raised average 13 points over the weekend ... reached base safely in eight-straight.
- J.J. Hamill was 2-for-4, 3 RBIs on Sunday ... hitting .320 (40-for-125) this year ... team leader in hits ... fifth game multi-RBI game this year (third with three or more).
- Celie Hudson picked up third win in the circle on Sunday ... threw 345 total pitches over the weekend ... tossed 19.0 innings and allowed 11 ERs ... struck out five.

Upcoming Schedule
Friday, April 14 - at ETSU* (DH) - 4 p.m.
Saturday, April 15 - at ETSU* - 1 p.m.
*- Southern Conference