Hayleigh Weissenbach’s three-run home run in the sixth inning lifted the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team to an 8-5 win over Southeast Missouri State in its Frost Classic on Saturday, but then the Mocs lost 4-2 to another Ohio Valley Conference team, UT-Martin.
UTC (6-7) is scheduled to play Evansville at 12:30 p.m. today at Frost Stadium.
Ashley Conner hit a pinch-hit grand slam in the fourth inning and Aly Walker hit a tying solo shot in the fifth against SEMO (5-4), and Celie Hudson got the pitching win in relief of freshman Allison Swinford.
In her first day of availability for the Mocs, Devan Brown was 1-for-2 against SEMO and hit a tying two-run triple against the Skyhawks (6-7). Weissenbach was 2-for-4 in game two, and Hudson (3-4) pitched a complete game.
-At Cleveland, Tenn., Lee sandwiched 6-2 and 6-3 Gulf South wins Friday and Saturday against visiting West Alabama around a 5-4 loss.
Leigh Beatenbough got the pitching win in game one with a five-hitter and got a save for Shonna Penney’s win Saturday. Stevie Baird was 5-for-7 with four runs scored in the two victories. She homered and tripled in the first one, when Taylor Moran was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Abby McKinney was 2-for-3 with three RBIs.
Kayla Louie had two hits and a run in each game for Lee (11-6, 4-2), and Moran had a three-run homer in the loss.
-At Waleska, Ga., in Reinhardt’s tournament, Bryan lost for the fourth time this season to seventh-ranked Georgia Gwinnett, 4-1, but edged Freed-Hardeman 2-1 on Friday and then lost 2-1 to FHU and routed Kentucky Christian 18-5 on Saturday.
Sydney Olander and Hanna O’Shields had two hits each against Gwinnett for Bryan (3-9), and Olivia Johnson pitched a five-hitter and Olander and Kimberly McKernie had two hits apiece in the win over FHU, Lindsey Dunn and Marissa Murray with the RBIs.
O’Shields was 4-for-5 with a grand slam, six RBIs and three runs against Kentucky Christian, and Kayla Hayes was 3-for-3 with a two-run double. Olander went 2-for-3 with the RBI in the loss to FHU.
-At Cleveland, Tenn., Cleveland State beat national power Lake Land 6-2 before losing 11-0 on Friday. Macy Bryant hit a two-run homer and a two-run single in the win for the Lady Cougars (5-2), when Bre Dunsmore and Sadie Coons each had two hits and an RBI and Hailey Galvan and Baylee Woods also had two hits behind Shiann Stockwell’s one-earned-run pitching. She’s 4-0.