Softball 4/18/2019 8:33:00 PM Catamount Athletics

Softball Drops Pair of Close Games at Chattanooga

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2

The Basics

Score: Chattanooga 6, Western Carolina 5; Chattanooga 3, Western Carolina 0

Records: Western Carolina 17-25, 4-9 SoCon, Chattanooga 28-12, 6-5 SoCon

Location: Frost Stadium, Chattanooga, Tenn.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Western Carolina softball dropped a pair of close games at Chattanooga, 6-5, 3-0, Thursday at Frost Stadium.

Chattanooga 6, Western Carolina 5

Turning Point

With the game tied 1-1, Chattanooga scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth and held on to that lead for the win.

How it Happened

Chattanooga struck first with a solo home run in the bottom of the second.
Shaina Reed tied the game for the Catamounts with a solo home run in the top of the fourth.
The Mocs exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fourth and was aided by two Western Carolina errors.
Western Carolina attempted a rally scoring four unanswered runs over the course of the sixth and seventh innings.
The Catamounts clawed back into the game scoring three runs in the top of the sixth inning all off homeruns. Freshman Bailey Huneycutt hit a solo home run and junior Erica Hayes hit a two-run home run in the inning.
Western Carolina made things very interesting cutting the Mocs' lead to one run in the top of the seventh. Pinch hitter Cheyenne Mathews led off with a single and was replaced by Danielle Chapman as a pinch runner. Chapman would go around to score courtesy of an RBI single by Hunter Gibbons. Western Carolina had the go-ahead run on second base with one out but couldn't push another run across.

Inside the Box Score

Reed got the start in the circle and tossed 3.1 innings and takes the loss falling to 6-13 on the year. She gave up six runs, three earned, on seven hits and struck out two.
Kinsey Liscio replaced Reed with one out in the fourth. She threw 1.2 scoreless innings facing seven batters.
Liscio was lifted in the sixth inning replaced by Kayla Brewer who allowed one hit and faced three batters.
Four of Western Carolina's five runs in the game were scored off homeruns.
The Catamounts out-hit the Mocs nine to eight.
Gibbons and Reed each had a pair of hits in the game.

Chattanooga 3, Western Carolina 0

Turning Point

Chattanooga held Western Carolina scoreless and scattered three runs over the course of the seven innings.

How it Happened

Inside the Box Score

After coming into game one in relief, Liscio got the start in game two. She tossed a complete game giving up three runs on eight hits and struck out four. She falls to 9-7 on the year.
Western Carolina had three hits in the game.
The Catamounts had base runners in three innings.

News & Notes

Reed's eight homeruns not only leads the team for the season but is a season-best for the senior.
Gibbons is riding a seven-game hit streak tying her hit-streak from earlier in the season. She also pushes her consecutive on-base streak to nine straight.
Western Carolina had its consecutive games hitting a homerun halted at seven games after failing to hit one in the second game of the doubleheader against Chattanooga.
The Catamounts were shut out for the ninth time this season with the 3-0 loss in game two against Chattanooga.

Up Next

Western Carolina closes out the three-game series at Chattanooga on Friday with a noon first pitch at Frost Stadium.

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