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Chattanooga vs. No. 10 Oklahoma
Feb. 13, 2010 |
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Clermont, Fla. (NTC Softball Complex)
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| UTC |
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1 |
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WP-Keilani Ricketts LP-Brooke Loudermilk(0-1)
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Chattanooga vs. No. 3 Michigan
Feb. 13, 2010 |
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Clermont, Fla. (NTC Softball Complex)
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12 |
15 |
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| UTC |
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WP-Jordan Taylor (1-0) LP-Nikki Waters (0-1)
CLERMONT,Fla. - On a clear and sunny day in Florida after the first day was rained out, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga dropped contests to No. 10 Oklahoma (1-0), 12-1, and No. 3 Michigan (1-0), 1-0, at the National Training Center Invitational in Clermont, Fla. Senior Brooke Loudermilk (Locust Grove, Ga.) posted a three hitter with nine strikeouts against the Sooners, while junior Tiffany Baker when 2-for-3 in the contest.
Due to a change in the tournament schedule because the first day was rained out. The Lady Mocs will now battle Florida Atlantic and UCF on Sunday starting at 11:30 a.m. The change was to allow all the teams to play four games and accommodate travel schedules.
Game One: No. 10 Oklahoma 1, Chattanooga 0
Sophomore Jessica Traxler (Chino Hills, Calif.) notched the first hit of the contest against freshman Keilani Riecketts in the third, but the Sooners answered with a hit in the bottom of the innings.
To start the fourth inning, junior Michelle Fuzzard (Huntington Beach, Calif.) walked and freshman Kasey Tydingco (Fairfield, Calif.) made her first appearance for Chattanooga as a pinch runner. Baker (East Ridge, Tenn.) came thru with a single down the left field line to move Tydingco over to second and a passed ball put two Lady Mocs into scoring position with one out. The Sooners came up to the challenge eliminating the Chattanooga rally with a strikeout and groundout.
The Sooners struck in the bottom of the six, when they loaded the bases with one out after a walk, an illegal pitch moving the runner to second, a bunt single and hit batter.
To score the only run of the game, Riecketts hit a sacrifice fly to left field that was dropped, but Flores instinctively threw the ball to third base beating the runner from second. Loudermilk erased the Oklahoma threat with two fly outs to end the inning.
In the top of the seventh, Baker hit a liner down the third base line that hit the Sooners' third baseman' glove and bounced away. Freshman Sarah Poteat (Thomaston, Ga.) pinch ran for Baker at first, but the Lady Mocs were unable to rally.
Ricketts notched 12 strikeouts, three hits and only a single walk to record her first career win.
Game Two: No. 3 Michigan 12, Chattanooga 1
After two scoreless innings from junior Nikki Waters (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.), No. 3 Michigan flexed its offense for four runs on their way to a 12-1 victory in five innings. Freshman Sarah Poteat (Thomstaton, Ga.) started for the Lady Mocs at shortstop and used her speed to beat out a bunt single in the bottom of the first.
Chattanooga notched its first run of the season during the bottom of the fourth when, junior Lyndsey Stiles (Hixson, Tenn.) singled up the middle leading off the inning. Poteat moved the Stiles to second on a sacrifice bunt before junior Michelle Fuzzard (Huntington Beach, Calif.) lined a double into the right center gap driving home Stiles. The lone run was all that the Lady Mocs were able to produce against one of the top pitching staffs in college softball.
Junior Kandice Irwin (Knoxville, Tenn.) came in relief of Waters in the fourth inning allowing two runs and starting the fifth before Waters reentered.
After four runs in the third followed by two in the fourth, Nikki Nemitz led off the inning with a single up the middle before Dorian Shaw hit a towering home run over the centerfield fence. The Wolverines would go on to score six runs on seven hits.
The Wolverines used 15 base hits, all of which were singles except the Nemitz home run. The Wolverines seemed to find holes in the Lady Mocs defense all day as Chattanooga did not commit an error in the contest.
Michigan's Jordan Taylor pitched a three hitter and struck out eight allowing only one run.
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