OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team split two games Friday to open play in Ole Miss’s Red and Blue Classic, beating Belmont 10-2 in five innings before losing 9-6 to the host team. Against the Bruins, UTC freshman Cheyenne Willis and junior Kasey Tydingco each had three RBIs and senior Michelle Fuzzard pitched a three-hitter. Fuzzard, Jessica Traxler and Sara Poteat each scored twice. Tydingco homered and Willis had a two-run hit as the Lady Mocs went up 5-0 on Ole Miss, but rain delayed the game after 4 1/2 innings and the Rebels rallied when play resumed. UTC freshman pitcher Taylor Deason, who had allowed just two hits in the first four innings, gave up six runs, five earned, on four hits while recording only one out in the fifth. Traxler was 3-for-4 against Ole Miss, and Poteat finished the day a perfect 6-for-6 with a stolen base and three runs scored, raising her team-leading batting average to .558.
• PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — Lee University beat Thomas 5-0 but then lost for the first time in 14 games this season, 11-3 to Trevecca Nazarene, at the NFCA NAIA Leadoff Classic softball tournament Friday. Kelsey Barnes was 3-for-4 with two doubles, three runs and two RBIs and Tabitha Farrow had three RBIs in the two games, and Laurel Allen and Jennifer Ringle had two hits apiece and totaled three runs in the win, when Brittany Bralough pitched a six-hitter.
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• FORT CARSON, Colo. — Jasper resident and Sequatchie County High School student Emily Dagnan from Chattanooga’s Westside Boxing Club defeated Karla Herrera of Los Angeles in the women’s 132-pound semifinals Friday of the USA Boxing National Championships. Dagnan won 19-10 and faces Rashida Ellis of Lynn, Mass., in the weight-class final today.
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