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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.