University of Tennessee at Chattanooga first baseman Michelle Fuzzard hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to send the Lady Mocs to a 3-2 win over Samfor in the Southern Conference softball tournament Friday at Jim Frost Stadium.
UTC rallied from a 2-1 deficit to tie the game with a run in the fifth inning on a fielders choice by Tiffany Baker. Baker was 1-for-2 with two RBIs for UTC (29-22).
Kandice Irwin pitched two innings of one-hit ball in relief of starter Brooke Loudermilk to earn the victory.
UTC will face either Samford or Georgia Southern in Saturday's title game at 1:30 p.m. Samford and Georgia Southern will meet in the losers bracket final at 11 a.m.
Jim Tanner has worked as assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press since late 2006. He started at the Times Free Press in 2001 and worked as a news copy/design editor from 2001 through 2006. In addition to working as a night and weekend editor producing local and national sports coverage for print and online readers, Jim occasionally writes local sports and outdoors stories. Jim grew up in Ringgold, Ga., and is a graduate ...
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