NATCHITOCHES, LA. – The Chattanooga Mocs' softball team got into the win column in its final of four games of the Natchitoches History District Development Commission Lady Demon Classic in Natchitoches, La. After falling to the Baylor Bears 10-5, Chattanooga shutout Arkansas Pine Bluff 17-0 in game two of the afternoon.
UTC moves to 1-3 this season. Baylor improved to 3-0, while Arkansas Pine Bluff dropped to 0-3.
Sunday's game against Northwestern State has been cancelled due to below-freezing temperatures in the morning. The Mocs return to Chattanooga to host the Chattanooga Challenge on Feb. 18-20. The Mocs' first game is on Friday at 3 p.m. vs SIUE.
GAME 1 RECAP
Baylor got on the board in the top of the first with Emily Holt scoring on an infield single. In the bottom half of the inning, UTC's first two batters found their way on base and then the tarp was pulled. The two teams went through a two-hour rain delay before continuing the first inning. Baylor's starter allowed a two-out walk before getting out of a bases-loaded jam.
It was a one-run game until the fourth when Baylor scored five runs on five hits and a Chattanooga error to take a 6-0 lead. The Mocs plated their first run of the day in the bottom half with back-to-back sacrifice flies from
Gracey Kruse and
Kailey Snell. In the next half inning, the Bears got one run back on a sac fly of their own.
In the bottom of the fifth,
Jayce Purdy plated one with a groundout. With two outs,
Reagan Armour drove in two with a single down the right field line, cutting the Mocs' deficit to two.
Baylor scored three more in the sixth to extend its lead to 10-5.
The Bears' Rachel Hertenberger got the win in the circle, tossing 4.2 innings, allowing five runs, three earned on seven hits. She walked three and struck out four. UTC's
Hannah Wood picked up the loss. She allowed six runs, three earned, in four innings of work with two K's.
GAME 1 – BU 10, UTC 5 | BOX
SCORING PLAYS
T1st: Ana Watson (BU) singled to second base (BU 1-0)
T4th: Sydney Collazos (BU) doubled to center, RBI (BU 2-0)
T4th: Zadie LaValley (BU) reached on a fielding error by 1B (BU 3-0)
T4th: Campbell Selman (BU) doubled to right center, RBI (BU 4-0)
T4th: Emily Hott (BU) singled up the middle, RBI (BU 5-0)
T4th: McKenzie Wilson (BU) singled up the middle, RBI (BU 6-0)
B4th: Gracey Kruse (UTC) flied out to center, RBI,
Acelynn Sellers scored (BU 6-1)
B4th: Kailey Snell (UTC) flied out to left, RBI,
Reagan Armour scored (BU 6-2)
T5th: Zadie LaValley (BU) popped up to second, RBI. (BU 7-2)
B5th: Jayce Purdy (UTC) grounded out to third, RBI,
Bailey Myers scored. (BU 7-3)
B5th: Reagan Armour (UTC) singled down the right field line, 2 RBI,
Liz Rodebaugh and
Kendall Forsythe scored. (BU 7-5)
T6th: Emily Hott (BU) homered to center, RBI. (BU 8-5)
T6th: McKenzie Wilson (BU) stole home. (BU 9-5).
T6th: Josie Bower (BU) scored on a wild pitch (BU 10-5).
WP: Rachel Hertenberger (1-0)
LP: Hannah Wood (0-1)
S: Maren Judisch (1)
Notable:
- Emily Coltharp's two hits marked her 34th career multi-hit game.
- Armour registered her fourth career multi-RBI game.
- Acelynn Sellers notched her first career hit with a single through the left side in the fourth.
GAME 2 RECAP
The Mocs began swinging out of the gates.
Liz Rodebaugh began the scoring with a single to left, which drove in Coltharp and Lipari after an error by the outfielder caused the ball to go to the wall.
After
Kendall Forsythe doubled to right center in the next at bat, Purdy wrapped up the five-run first with a two-run blast, the Mocs' first homer of the season.
In the second, the Mocs plated seven, led by a two-run single from Rodebaugh and a bases-clearing triple off the center field wall from the bat of Lipari.
The Mocs continued its offensive success in the third, beginning the inning with two homers in three AB's from
Adison Keylon and
Kendall Forsythe. After a Kruse double to score one,
Skylar Berkhiser and
Olivia Lipari both drove in one with singles to center field.
Forsythe and Lipari went 3-for-3 at the dish. The duo combined to score five runs and drive in six. Coltharp, Rodebaugh, Purdy and Kruse all had multi-hit games.
Brooke Parrott got the nod in the circle, picking up the win with three shutout innings. She struck out five, walking three and allowing one hit.
GAME 2 – UTC 17, AKPB 0 | BOX
SCORING PLAYS
B1: Liz Rodebaugh (UTC) singled to left, RBI,
Emily Coltharp and
Olivia Lipari scored. (UTC 2-0)
B1: Kendall Forsythe (UTC) doubled to right center, RBI.
Liz Rodebaugh scored. (UTC 3-0)
B1: Jayce Purdy (UTC) homered to left center, 2 RBI.
Kendall Forsythe scored. (UTC 5-0)
B2: Liz Rodebaugh (UTC) singled to left, 2 RBI.
Emily Coltharp and
Olivia Lipari scored. (UTC 7-0)
B2: Gracey Kruse (UTC) walked, RBI,
Liz Rodebaugh scored (UTC 8-0)
B2: Kailey Snell (UTC) walked, RBI,
Kendall Forsythe scored (UTC 9-0)
B2: Olivia Lipari (UTC) tripled to center, 3 RBI,
Kailey Snell,
Gracey Kruse and
Jayce Purdy scored (UTC 12-0)
B3: Adison Keylon (UTC) homered to center, RBI. (UTC 13-0)
B3: Kendall Forsythe (UTC) homered to center, RBI (UTC 14-0)
B3: Gracey Kruse (UTC) doubled to center, RBI,
Jayce Purdy scored. (UTC 15-0).
B3: Skylar Berkhiser (UTC) singled to center, RBI,
Gracey Kruse scored. (UTC 16-0)
B3: Olivia Lipari (UTC) singled to center, RBI,
Skylar Berkhiser scored. (UTC 17-0)
WP: Brooke Parrott (1-1)
LP: P. Rodriguez (0-1)
Notable:
- This marked the first time the team has scored 12 runs in the first two innings of a game since they scored 13 in the first against Detroit Mercy on Feb. 20, 2016.
- It's the first time the Mocs have hit three or more home runs in a game since April 28, 2019 at ETSU.
- Forsythe and Purdy hit their first career home runs.
- Kruse recorded her third multi-RBI game in her career.
- The 16 RBI tied a program record. It's the fourth time ever the team has accomplished that feat and first since March 24, 2012 vs. App State.
- 17 runs are the most scored since the team scored 19 vs. Dayton on Feb, 26, 2012.
Series history:
Chattanooga is now 0-2 vs. Baylor and 1-0 vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff.
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