MURFREESBORO – The Chattanooga Mocs' softball team concluded the MTSU Invitational going 2-2 in the two-day tournament. The squad fell to Northern Iowa 11-1 in Friday's opener before defeating MTSU 3-1.
Chattanooga moved to 11-12 on the season while Northern Iowa improved to 8-9 and MTSU dropped to 11-14.
The Mocs return to Frost Stadium this week as they host two doubleheaders and the Chatty's Patty's. The week begins with a Tuesday doubleheader at 1 and 3 p.m. vs. Georgia State.
GAME ONE RECAP
Northern Iowa got the scoring started with a four-run first. The Panthers netted six hits to plate the four runs. After another run in the second and two in the third, UNI held a 7-0 lead.
Kaili Phillips cut into the Panthers lead with a solo home run to left in the fourth. UNI scored four more in the bottom half on a three-run homer and an unearned run to secure its 11-1 victory.
Hannah Wood picked up the loss, allowing the four runs in the first. The Mocs used three other pitchers in
Reagan Lowrie,
Izzy Alley and
Kat Thompson.
Emily Coltharp and Phillips recorded the two hits for the Mocs.
UNI's Emmy Wells went 2-for-2 with five RBI and two runs scored.
UTC 1, UNI 11 (5 inn) | BOX
SCORING PLAYS
B1st: Kylee Sanders singled to center field, RBI. (UNI 1-0)
B1st: Emmy Wells doubled to center field, 2 RBI. (UNI 3-0)
B1st: Taylor Hogan singled to right center, RBI. (UNI 4-0)
B2nd: Sammy Moss flied out to left field, SF, RBI. (UNI 5-0)
B3rd: Addison McElrath grounded out to shortstop, RBI. (UNI 6-0)
B3rd: Daryn Lamprecht singled to left center, RBI. (UNI 7-0)
T4th: Kaili Phillips homered to left field, RBI. (UNI 7-1)
B4th: Emmy Wells homered to center, 3 RBI. (UNI 10-1)
B4th: Daryn Lamprecht reached on an error by 3B, unearned run. (UNI 11-1)
WP: Kailyn Packard (5-3)
LP: Hannah Wood (1-5)
Notable:
- After Phillips' fourth inning homer, the last four home runs for the Mocs have been a leadoff bomb. Just one of the team's first nine were leadoff homers to start the season.
GAME TWO RECAP
The run production in the first inning continued in the Mocs' final game of the MTSU Invitational. This time, it was Chattanooga that produced in the run column with
Acelynn Sellers driving in Coltharp and
Olivia Lipari on a single down the third base line.
MTSU and UTC were both unable to get runs across until the top of the fourth when
Gracey Kruse drove in
Presley Williamson from second with an RBI double to put the Mocs up 3-0.
After the leadoff batter reached on an error in the seventh, MTSU got on the board in its half of the inning courtesy of a sac fly. The hosts had two in scoring position with one out and Brooke Parrot struck out the next hitter before the final batter of the game popped up to third.
Parrott tossed a complete game and allowed just four hits, one unearned run and fanned three.
Lipari and Williamson both registered two hits apiece.
UTC 3, MTSU 1 | BOX
SCORING PLAYS
T1st: Acelynn Sellers singled down the third base line, 2 RBI,
Kailey Snell and
Emily Coltharp scored. (UTC 2-0)
T4th: Gracey Kruse doubled to right center, RBI,
Presley Williamson scored. (UTC 3-0)
B7th: Lani Rodriguez flied out to center, SF, RBI, unearned. (UTC 3-1)
WP: Brooke Parrott (7-1)
LP: Gretchen Mead (2-2)
Notable:
- Lipari registered her sixth multi-hit game of the season and Williamson posted her second.
- Sellers has recorded two RBI in four of the team's last eight games.
- The complete game was the sixth of the season for Parrott. She has registered a win in seven of the team's 11 victories.
Series history:
Chattanooga improves to 20-2 all-time against MTSU and is now 3-1 vs. Northern Iowa.
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