The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team rebounded from a 15-2 loss with an 11-6 win in Friday’s Southern Conference doubleheader at Samford.
UTC (15-21, 1-4) scored six runs in the fifth inning and five in the seventh of game two. That last set of scores came on a two-run double by Emma Sturdivant and a pinch-hit three-run home run by J.J. Hamill, making a winner of pitcher Celie Hudson (6-9).
Sturdivant was 3-for-3 with three RBIs in the game, and Brook Womack and Morgan Kazerooni each hit a two-run single in the fifth inning. Shelby Maze was 4-for-4 and scored twice for Samford (11-25, 2-2), which had a tying five-run fifth, and Ryan Brzozoski, Kathryn Jackson and Mekhi Mayfield had two RBIs apiece.
Madison Couch was 2-for-3 with a homer, four RBIs and two runs and Lexie Higgins was 1-for-1 with two walks, a three-run homer and three runs for the Bulldogs in the five-inning opener. Womack gave UTC a quick lead with a two-run homer in the first inning, and Ashley Conner was 2-for-2, but the Mocs got no other hits and made three errors leading to four unearned runs.
‘ Chattanooga State 10-11, Southwest Tennessee 0-0: At Chattanooga State, Jenna Edwards and Kaleigh Wynne pitched five-inning one- and two-hitters with eight and seven strikeouts as the nationally 18th-ranked Lady Tigers stretched their winning streak to 16 games with the TCCAA sweep.