Cullowhee, N.C. – The Chattanooga Mocs' softball team dominated the final regular season game of 2022 with a 13-1 win over Western Carolina at the Catamount Softball Complex on Sunday afternoon.

Chattanooga wraps up the regular season with a 25-25 overall record and a 9-9 mark in the Southern Conference. Western Carolina dropped to 18-31 overall and 6-12 in league play.

The Mocs are the No. 3 seed at the SoCon Tournament which begins Wednesday, May 11 in Greensboro, N.C. Chattanooga and Western Carolina will face again at 3 p.m. on Wednesday as the Catamounts picked up the No. 6 seed.

HOW IT HAPPENED
After Chattanooga belted four home runs yesterday, it didn't take long for them to get the ball over the fence on Sunday afternoon. Emily Coltharp opened the game with a single up the middle followed by Kailey Snell reaching on an error. In the next at bat, Reagan Armour took an 0-2 pitch over the wall in center to put the Mocs up 3-0. On the very next pitch Acelynn Sellers went yard, putting the Mocs up 4-0 before an out was recorded in the first.

Sellers wasn't the end of the home run party. Two batters later, Kaili Phillips struck a line drive over the center field fence, putting UTC up 5-0.

The Mocs took a 5-0 lead into the second and it didn't just stay at five. After blasting two home runs herself yesterday, Adison Keylon sent one over the fence to add to the Chattanooga lead. The Mocs took a 7-0 lead into the bottom half after a Phillips bases-loaded walk.

Western Carolina got its first hit and run with a solo homer in the bottom of the second. In the next half inning, Armour got the run back with an RBI single to center. The Mocs struck for four more in the fourth with RBIs from Keylon, Armour and Sellers. After a three up, three down bottom half, UTC held a 12-1 lead into the fifth.

Phillips added another run to the column with her second blast of the day. She took a 3-1 pitch over the wall for her second multi-home run game of the season.  

Brooke Parrott retired the final 10 batters she faced to secure the 13-1 win. Parrott allowed just one baserunner, the second-inning home run. She struck out five in her seventh complete game of the season.

Armour led the Mocs with a 4-for-4 day. Five other Mocs registered multiple hits in the contest: Coltharp, Snell, Sellers, Phillips and Keylon.

UTC 13, WCU 1 | BOX
SCORING PLAYS
T1st: Reagan Armour homered to center, 3 RBI; Emily Coltharp and Kailey Snell scored (UTC 3-0).
T1st: Acelynn Sellers homered to left, RBI (UTC 4-0).
T1st: Kaili Phillips homered to center, RBI (UTC 5-0).
T2nd: Adison Keylon homered to center, RBI (UTC 6-0).
T2nd: Kaili Phillips walked, RBI; Reagan Armour scored (UTC 7-0).
B2nd: Bailey Treadway homered to left, RBI (UTC 7-1).
T3rd: Reagan Armour singled to center, RBI; Adison Keylon scored (UTC 8-1).
T4th: Adison Keylon singled to left, 2 RBI; Presley Williamson and Skylar Berkhiser scored (UTC 10-1).
T4th: Reagan Armour singled through the left side, RBI; Gracey Kruse scored (UTC 11-1).
T4th: Acelynn Sellers singed to center, RBI; Adison Keylon scored (UTC 12-1).   
T5th: Kaili Phillips homered to center, RBI (UTC 13-1).

WP: Brooke Parrott (11-7)
LP:  Caitlin Griffin (0-1)

Notable:

• The five runs in the first marked the second time this season Chattanooga has plated five in the opening frame (vs. ETSU).
• The Mocs hit four home runs in a game for the second time this season. It's the first time since 2012 Chattanooga hit four homers in two or more games.
• Armour became the second Moc this season to record five RBI in a game (Phillips).
• The team's 16 hits tied a season best set in the first weekend of the season against Arkansas Pine Bluff (Feb. 12).
• This weekend, the Mocs totaled 31 runs and 39 hits against Catamount pitching.

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