2008 Woodie Awards
Lady Mocs softball confident despite record
Sarah Burzynski
Issue date: 4/6/06 Section: Sports
The Lady Mocs softball team won two against Georgia Southern University over the weekend in a three-game series played in Statesboro, Ga.
Defending Southern Conference Pitcher of the Week Logan Free gave up two runs to the Mocs in the first inning of game one played on April 1.
Jeannie Cochran, a junior from Maryville, Tenn., hit to the Eagles' shortstop and made it to first. After being hit by a pitch, Ashley Cuticchia, a Rising Fawn, Ga., freshman, advanced to first and took second on a double steal to put two Mocs into scoring position.
The steal by Cochran, UTC's all-time leading base stealer, was the 50th of her three-year career.
A single by Tara Tembey, a sophomore from Folsom, Calif., plated Cochran to put Chattanooga up 3-0.
In the third inning, Free sent a pitch over the catcher's head that allowed Cuticchia to score from third. GSU pulled Free in favor of A.J. Street, but the Lady Mocs put up two more runs in the inning.
An insurance run in the fourth capped the Mocs' lead at 7-0.
Pitcher Ashley Frizzell, a Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., junior, struck out three batters in the game and tallied her 11th win of the season.
In game two, Chattanooga put three runs on the board on three consecutive hits, two of which were back-to-back home runs scored by Tembey and Ashleigh Bull, a Chattanooga senior.
UTC pulled ahead 8-1 after scoring five runs in the fifth inning. The Lady Mocs' final two runs came in the top of the sixth, ensuring a 10-5 Chattanooga victory.
Sunday's game was scoreless until Laci Upchurch, a Madison, Tenn., freshman, hit her first collegiate home run. Later in the inning, Cuticchia scored from second off of a Whittier RBI single.
GSU reversed the lead by scoring three runs in the bottom of the inning. The Eagles widened the gap to 8-2 after putting up a run in the fourth and four more in the sixth.
Chattanooga tried to stage a comeback but their five seventh inning runs fell one short.
Defending Southern Conference Pitcher of the Week Logan Free gave up two runs to the Mocs in the first inning of game one played on April 1.
Jeannie Cochran, a junior from Maryville, Tenn., hit to the Eagles' shortstop and made it to first. After being hit by a pitch, Ashley Cuticchia, a Rising Fawn, Ga., freshman, advanced to first and took second on a double steal to put two Mocs into scoring position.
The steal by Cochran, UTC's all-time leading base stealer, was the 50th of her three-year career.
A single by Tara Tembey, a sophomore from Folsom, Calif., plated Cochran to put Chattanooga up 3-0.
In the third inning, Free sent a pitch over the catcher's head that allowed Cuticchia to score from third. GSU pulled Free in favor of A.J. Street, but the Lady Mocs put up two more runs in the inning.
An insurance run in the fourth capped the Mocs' lead at 7-0.
Pitcher Ashley Frizzell, a Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., junior, struck out three batters in the game and tallied her 11th win of the season.
In game two, Chattanooga put three runs on the board on three consecutive hits, two of which were back-to-back home runs scored by Tembey and Ashleigh Bull, a Chattanooga senior.
UTC pulled ahead 8-1 after scoring five runs in the fifth inning. The Lady Mocs' final two runs came in the top of the sixth, ensuring a 10-5 Chattanooga victory.
Sunday's game was scoreless until Laci Upchurch, a Madison, Tenn., freshman, hit her first collegiate home run. Later in the inning, Cuticchia scored from second off of a Whittier RBI single.
GSU reversed the lead by scoring three runs in the bottom of the inning. The Eagles widened the gap to 8-2 after putting up a run in the fourth and four more in the sixth.
Chattanooga tried to stage a comeback but their five seventh inning runs fell one short.
