NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Chattanooga softball team fell 11-10 in nine innings to the Lipscomb Bison at Draper Diamond in Nashville on Wednesday evening.

The game was sent into extra innings after Reagan Armour blasted a three-run home run when Chattanooga was down to its final out in the top of the seventh. The Bison battled back and scored two in the bottom half to force extras. Both teams scored at least one run the last three innings, but the hosts walked it off with a two-out RBI single in the ninth.

Chattanooga dropped to 16-14, while Lipscomb improved to 11-17.

The Mocs return home and begin Southern Conference action on Saturday, March 26 against Furman with a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Lipscomb began the scoring in the first. After the leadoff hitter reached on an error, she came around to score on a single through the left side as the bases were loaded with no outs. After driving in the first run of the game Lipscomb's Kamrie Rich scored the second run for the Bison in the first on a wild pitch.

After the Bison plated another unearned run in the second, Lipscomb threatened again with the bases loaded and no one out in the third. Hannah Wood entered the circle and got out of the jam with a double play and a groundout. 

Olivia Lipari got the Mocs on the board in the fourth, blasting her sixth home run of the season. With two outs in the inning, Kaili Phillips doubled to left center and two pitches later Liz Rodebaugh drove her in with a double to the same gap. The Mocs took the lead in the next at bat as Presley Williamson hit a 0-1 pitch over the center field wall, giving Chattanooga its first lead of the game.

The lead did not last long as Lipscomb tied the game at four with an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Bison plated their fifth run with a two-out single to take at 5-4 lead.

With two outs and two on in the seventh, Amour entered as a pitch hitter and drove a 1-0 pitch over the wall down the left field line to give the Mocs a two-run lead, 7-5.

The Bison rallied in the seventh, scoring two runs before Brooke Parrott got a strikeout with the winning run on third to send the game into extra innings.

In extras, the Chattanooga bats stayed hot. After the inning began with a runner on second, Philips drove in her second and third runs of the evening with a two-run shot off the top of the scoreboard in right, giving the Mocs a 9-7 lead.

In the bottom of the eighth, down to their final out, the Bison doubled to the right center gap, scoring two and extending the game.

Chattanooga plated an unearned run in the top of the ninth as Lipscomb's first basemen threw the ball into the home dugout, allowing Adison Keylon to score from third.

In the bottom half, the Bison began the inning with an RBI single and with two outs again, scored the games 21^st and final run with a single to left.

Izzy Alley got the start for Chattanooga and gave up three runs, all unearned, on five hits with two strikeouts in two innings of work. Wood pitched four innings of relief and allowed two runs on six hits with a walk and a strikeout.

Parrott pitched the final three innings for Chattanooga and allowed three earned runs on seven hits and struck out five.

Williamson led the Mocs with three hits and was one of three on the squad with multiple RBI.

Lipscomb's Kamrie Rich went 4-for-6 with two RBI to lead all players.

LIP 11, UTC 10 | BOX
SCORING PLAYS

B1st: Kamrie Rich singled through the left side, RBI; Amy Vetula scored, unearned (LIP 1-0)
B1st: Kamrie Rich scored on a wild pitch, unearned (LIP 2-0).
B2nd: Presley Leebrick singled to center field, RBI; Jessie Brown scored, unearned (LIP 3-0).
T4th: Olivia Lipari homered to left, RBI (LIP 3-1).
T4th: Liz Rodebuagh doubled to left center, RBI; Kaili Phillips scored (LIP 3-2).
T4th: Presley Williamson homered to center, 2 RBI; Liz Rodebaugh scored (UTC 4-3).
B4th: Kaitlyn Woodside singled down the left field line, RBI; Presley Leebrick scored. (Tied 4-4).
B6th: Elise Shewmaker singled to right field, RBI; Presley Leebrick scored (LIP 5-4).
T7th: Reagan Armour homered down the left field line, 3 RBI; Skylar Berkhiser and Adison Keylon scored (UTC 7-5).
B7th: Tori Womack doubled to right center, RBI; Kelly Paulson scored. (UTC 7-6).
B7th: Amy Vetula flied out to center, RBI; Ashley Montoya scored. (Tied 7-7).
T8th: Kaili Phillips homered to right center, 2 RBI; Acelynn Sellers scored (UTC 9-7)
B8th: Joie Giarrizzo doubled to right center, 2 RBI; Kyndall Crawford and Kaitlyn Woodside scored (Tied 9-9).
T9th: Emily Coltharp grounded out to third; Adison Keylon scored on a throwing error by 1B (UTC 10-9).
B9th: Amy Vetula singled to left center, RBI; Jessie Brown scored. (Tied 10-10).  
B9th: Kamrie Rich singled to left center, RBI; Amy Vetula scored, unearned (LIP 11-10).

WP: Kate Peters (3-4)
LP: Brooke Parrott (8-2)

Notable: 

• Chattanooga's four home runs are the most for the team since April 8, 2018 when the team hit four at Western Carolina.
• The game is the first time the Mocs and their opponent combined for 29 or more hits since March 27, 2012 against Massachusetts when the Mocs and Minutemen combined for 29 in seven innings.
• Armour's three RBI are a career high and the home run was the second of her career. It was the first home run in the seventh inning or later since Haleigh Wessenbach blasted a two-run home run on April 24, 2021 at ETSU in the 10^th inning last season.
• Lipari and Williamson became the second pair of Mocs to homer in the same inning this season and the first since Feb. 12 vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff. Both homered on 0-1 counts. Prior to Lipari's home run, no Moc had hit a home run on a 0-1 count this season.  
• Chattanooga has homered in six straight games dating back to last Tuesday (March 15) vs. Georgia State. It's the longest streak for the team since UTC hit a home run in each of the last eight games to end the 2016 season.
• Lipari has now reached base in 13 straight games, the longest by a Moc this season.
• The Mocs moved to 4-3 in one-run games this season and suffered their first loss when scoring 10 or more runs.