Although it was a bit anticlimactic, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team’s three-game sweep of Western Carolina sealed the Mocs’ No. 1 seed in the upcoming Southern Conference tournament.
The Mocs (38-13, 16-5) had entered the weekend with a one-game lead in the league standings over UNC Greensboro and with a tiebreaker advantage over the same program due to taking two of three games against the Spartans recently, but UNCG dropped back-to-back games against Wofford on Friday.
That sealed at least a share of the title for UTC, but the Mocs were able to claim the regular-season crown outright with a 9-6 win Saturday over the Catamounts before posting 4-3 and 8-6 wins in Sunday’s doubleheader.
For UTC, it’s the 15th SoCon regular-season title, but the program’s first since 2015. The Mocs have won two SoCon tournament titles since then, in 2019 and 2022, and will be seeking their 16th overall this week in Greensboro, North Carolina.
After a trio of home runs for UTC on Saturday — including Kendall Forsythe’s sixth-inning grand slam to break a 5-all tie — Sunday’s doubleheader wasn’t easy for the Mocs as the Catamounts (16-33, 7-14) built a 3-2 lead in the first game and were tied at 5 in the second.