The UTC softball team edged Lipscomb 6-5 in eight innings Wednesday at Frost Stadium.
Alyssa Coppinger scored the winning run on an error, and Jordan Fortel pitched a complete game with eight strikeouts and was 2-for-3 with a third-inning home run. Alyssa Taylor also was 2-for-3. After a hit batter and two walks in the fourth inning, Sam Taylor doubled in three runs and scored on Anyssa Robles’ sacrifice fly for UTC (13-9), which plays this weekend in the Holy City Showdown in Charleston, S.C.
– Carson-Newman catcher Katie Pritchett from Heritage High School was 6-for-7 with four doubles and six RBIs as the Lady Eagles won 8-5 and lost 10-6 to Concord in softball games Wednesday at Athens, W.Va. She was 4-for-4 with three doubles in the loss.
– Olivia Gore was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Mariam Wood homered, singled and scored twice as Bryan College won 6-4 in AAC softball Wednesday at Milligan. Milligan won the second game 3-2, but Lacye Walker was 2-for-3 and Wood 2-4 for Bryan, and Katelyn Bowen scored after a double and had an RBI walk.
– Rayanna Janke, a North Whitfield Middle School eighth-grader, was a “direct select” pick at the recent Atlanta camp for the USSSA Futures All-American Games to be held Aug. 1-6 in Kissimmee, Fla. She’s in the ProStar Fastpitch program. “This is a huge honor for RJ and a proud moment for our program,” ProStar director Steve Chattin said.