The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team won its program-record eighth game in a row to start a season but couldn’t make it nine Saturday in its Chattanooga Challenge.
The Mocs beat Dayton 8-0 in five innings at Jim Frost Stadium before losing 7-0 to Kennesaw State in a turnabout from last weekend, when UTC defeated the Owls 15-4 at their Phyllis Rafter Memorial.
Against Dayton, Allison Swinford pitched a six-hitter and pinch-hitter Morgan Kazerooni ended the game early with a three-run home run. Emily Coltharp was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run, Amanda Beltran was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI, Gracey Kruse was 1-for-2 and also scored twice and Katie Corum and Halie Williamson each was 1-for-1 with an RBI.
Alyssa Coppinger was 1-for-2 in the game against Kennesaw State, when the Mocs had only three hits and made four errors.
» At Cleveland, Tennessee, Lee University won 8-4 and lost 7-1 against Valdosta State in a Gulf South Conference doubleheader. Taylor De Adder pitched the win for Lee (7-8, 1-2) with seven strikeouts and two earned runs and went 3-for-4 and matched Zoe Miller with two RBIs. Abby McKinney was 2-for-2 and scored two runs, while Kayla Louie, Lily Hatcher, Kayla Gooch and Kiley Longmire each was 2-for-4, Louie and Gooch scoring twice as well.