DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Both Chattanooga State teams and Cleveland State’s baseball Cougars all won Saturday in the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII tournaments.
The third-seeded Cougars edged Motlow State 7-6 and will face No. 2 seed Chattanooga State, a 10-2 winner over Volunteer State, in a winners-bracket semifinal at 5 p.m. EDT today.
In softball, top-seeded and nationally seventh-ranked Chattanooga State beat Southwest Tennessee 8-0 in five innings as Haley Workman pitched a three-hitter with eight strikeouts. The Lady Tigers (48-12) face Walters State at 11 a.m. EDT and will play at least one more game today.
Walters’ Kaylee Garrett was 3-for-4 with a home run and five RBIs and Brittany Williams was 3-for-3 with three runs and an RBI in a 9-5 defeat of Jackson State.
Motlow State, which ended Chattanooga State’s streak of 15 region titles last year, is in the losers bracket after falling 6-4 to Columbia State despite three hits apiece from Amy Buwalda and Nicole Johnson.