Chattanooga Walks-Off With Win Over Softball

Wednesday, March 20

Chattanooga, Tenn.

3 p.m.

Murray State

7-14

Chattanooga

16-14

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Murray St.	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	8	1
Chattanooga	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	5	10	3

Photo by: Murray State Sports Information

3/20/2013 8:34:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

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The Murray State softball team fell in heart-breaking fashion at Chattanooga, after a Lady Moc single in the eighth ended the game at 5-4 on Thursday at Frost Stadium.

The Racers (7-14) got the scoring started in the first inning when Ellyn Troup hit one straight up the middle to drive in Shelbey Miller. However, the Lady Mocs (16-14) answered in the fourth on a RBI-double from Stephanie Reick.

In the sixth, Murray State scored the go-ahead run on a single to left field from Leslie Bridges that scored Erica Howard. In the bottom of the frame, Reick struck again with a three-run home run that sailed over the wall in right field to give her team a 4-2 lead.

With their backs against the wall, the Racers tied the game at four with two runs in the top of the seventh. The first run scored on a Morgan Harrell single that drove in Sarah Anderson. Harrell came home in the next at bat on a Chattanooga error to tie the game at four. In the bottom of the frame, the Lady Mocs flied out three straight times send the game to extras.

In the top of the eighth, Chattanooga reliever Rachel Albritton retired the Racers in order to give her team a shot at the win. In the bottom half of the eighth, Reick drove in her fifth run of the day with single up the middle to win the game for the Lady Mocs.

CheyAnne Gaskey fell to 4-5 on the season with the loss, allowing five runs on 10 hits with six strikeouts, including the first four batters of the game. Albritton picked up her fourth win of the season after allowing no runs on no hits with one strikeout over two complete innings.

Harrell led MSU in the game by going 2-for-3 in the contest. Troup, Miller, Anderson, Bridges, Casey Castile and Erica Howard each tallied a hit in the game, while Troup, Bridges and Christian Cox drove in one run a piece.

On Thursday, the Racers will wrap-up the non-conference portion of their spring break trip when they travel to Johnson City for a showdown with East Tennessee State. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. CT.