The banged-up University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team pulled out two one-run wins Saturday in the Holy City Showdown in Charleston, S.C.: 3-2 against Columbia University and 2-1 against tournament host College of Charleston, which had edged 12th-ranked Georgia 2-1 on Friday.
Freshman Jordan Fortel got both pitching wins for UTC (15-11), the first in relief after a solid five innings from Kailey Palazzolo and the second with a complete-game five-hitter.
Fortel doubled and scored on an Anyssa Robles single in the first inning against Columbia, which then scored a run in each of the next two innings. Criket Blanco drove in Alyssa Taylor to make it 2-2 in the bottom of the third, and Robles came through again in the seventh, following singles by Amanda Ross, Sam Taylor and Alyssa Taylor with one of her own for the victory.
Robles and Alyssa Taylor each was 3-for-4 in that game, and Fortel was 2-for-4.
Fortel gave up a run in the first inning against Charleston, but the Mocs took the lead in the fourth when Blanco doubled with two outs and Ashley Conner singled her in and scored on a hit by Amanda Beltran.