The Chattanooga softball team swept the second day of the Frost Classic with wins over UIC (8-1) and Cornell (2-1\/8) to improve to 8-6 overall.<\/p>\n
Raven Jones and Ava Cowart each went 3-for-5 Saturday. Jones had a double, RBI and scored a run and Cowart drove in three and scored twice.<\/p>\n
Taylor Long picked up her 400th career strikeout in the win over UIC and Emery Bales came on in relief to pick up her third win of the season.<\/p>\n
GAME ONE: Chattanooga 8, UIC 1<\/p>\n
Chattanooga scored runs in each of the first four innings and led off the bottom of the first with a single off the bat of Ava Cowart. She scored the first run on an infield groundout.<\/p>\n
The Mocs hung three runs on the Flames in the second on two hits. With two outs, Lexi Cooley drew a walk and scored on a Zoe Wright triple to the fence in left center. Cowart drove her in with a single that dropped in behind second. A fielding error, allowing Annika Segedi to reach, plated Cowart to make it a 4-0 advantage for the home team.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded in the fourth on two walks and an error, Wright reached on a fielder\u2019s choice that caught Chloe Lackey at the plate for the second out. Cowart, back at the plate, drove in two more runs in the inning.<\/p>\n
UIC scored a run in the third on a double to deep right field, scoring the runner from first.<\/p>\n
Cowart was 3-for-4 with three RBI and scored two runs. Baileigh Pitts went 2-for-3 with a walk, RBI and run scored.<\/p>\n
Taylor Long went the distance, striking out eight in the win with three walks. She gave up one run on six hits.<\/p>\n
GAME TWO: Chattanooga 2, Cornell 1\/8 innings<\/p>\n
Auburn Karls hit a one-out sac fly in the bottom of the eighth, driving in Jade Gainer from third for the game-winning run over Cornell Saturday evening at Frost Stadium.<\/p>\n
Gainer entered the game as a pinch runner and was placed at third in accordance with the extra innings rule. With one out, Gainer took third on a passed ball. Karls, on a 3-2 count sent a long fly into left field to sacrifice in the game winning run.<\/p>\n
Cornell struck first, scoring in the top of the first. The Mocs tied it up in the bottom half on a wild pitch. Annika Segedi and Baileight Pitts reached on back-to-back walks and Segedi advanced on a fly out to right field. In the next at bat, Segedi sprinted home on a wild pitch to make it 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chattanooga stranded eight runners over the next six innings included bases loaded in the second.<\/p>\n
Emery Bales came on in relief to pick up her third win of the season. She struck out one in five-and two-thirds innings with one run on six hits.<\/p>\n
Up next, Chattanooga closes out the Frost Classic Sunday at 1:30 p.m. against UIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chattanooga softball team swept the second day of the Frost Classic with wins over UIC (8-1) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2351,3521,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2330,2333,2422,2334,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2307,74048,4508,2321,1210,185,2324,2350,2338,2311,2312,8768,1039],"class_list":["post-586062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-athletic-sports","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-base-on-balls","tag-base-running","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","tag-grass-field-surfaces","tag-hit-baseball","tag-lawn-games","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-october-in-sports","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-rules-of-baseball","tag-sacrifice-fly","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-softball","tag-sports","tag-sports-events","tag-strikeout","tag-team-activities","tag-team-sports","tag-turf-sports","tag-wild-pitch","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}