Chattanooga was limited to three hits and could not overcome an early deficit in a 4-0 loss to Southern Miss on Sunday afternoon at the Hub City Classic. The Mocs dropped to 10\u201110\u20111 on the season.<\/p>\n
Southern Miss opened the scoring with a three\u2011run first inning, capitalizing on back\u2011to\u2011back singles and a fielding error that allowed the first run to come across. A sacrifice fly by Jayla Hays and another tag\u2011up on a flyout extended the lead to 3-0 before Chattanooga recorded its first out of the frame.<\/p>\n
The Golden Eagles added an insurance run in the sixth on a single up the middle with two outs to score Abby Troquille from third, making it 4-0.<\/p>\n
In the second, Chloe Lackey laid out for an out in left center and Abi Bunt caught a runner stealing with a throw down to Zoe Wright at second. The Mocs ended the fifth inning with a 4-6-3 double play.<\/p>\n
Offensively, Chattanooga produced singles from Ava Cowart, Raven Jones, and Chloe Lackey but never moved a runner past second base. The Mocs\u2019 best chance came in the third inning, when Jones and Cowart reached in back\u2011to\u2011back at\u2011bats before a caught stealing ended the threat.<\/p>\n
Emery Bales (4-4) threw a complete game for Chattanooga, allowing four runs – only two earned – on seven hits with one strikeout across six innings. Bales forced a double play and kept Southern Miss off the board in four of six frames, but the early three\u2011run inning proved decisive.<\/p>\n
Chattanooga returns to action Wednesday at Lipscomb. First pitch is slated for 5 p.m. Next weekend, the Mocs will be in Central Arkansas for a three-day tournament with the Bears and Louisiana-Monroe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chattanooga was limited to three hits and could not overcome an early deficit in a 4-0 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2307,2321,185,2324,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-601091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-teams","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-playoffs","26":"tag-mlb-postseason","27":"tag-october-in-sports","28":"tag-outdoor-sports","29":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-events","32":"tag-team-sports","33":"tag-turf-sports","34":"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\/601091","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=601091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}