BLACKSBURG, Va. --- The Chattanooga softball team outhit Virginia Tech Friday evening at Tech Softball Park, but walked 15 in a 12-7 loss to the Hokies.
 
Emily Coltharp led off the game with the first of the Mocs' 12 hits, a single into shallow left field. Chattanooga's second hit was a high arcing home run from Acelynn Sellers to center field, putting UTC up 3-0.
 
Virginia Tech added runs in the bottom of the first and second to make it a one-run game, 3-2, but UTC would get one back in the top of the fourth on a sac fly from Addy Keylon. That would send home pinch runner Reagan Duran to make it 4-2.
 
The bottom of the fourth saw the damage done. Seven Hokies reached base on balls and three more hit doubles to put seven runs on the board and take a 9-4 lead. Chattanooga head coach Frank brought in two pitchers before returning starter Brooke Parrott to the mound.
 
In the top of the fifth, the Mocs cut into the lead with three runs to make it 9-7, but Virginia Tech answered back with three more runs.
 
Kailey Snell led off the fifth with a single through the left side and Olivia Lipari walked to put runners on. Kaili Phillips hard hit to the pitcher was enough to load the bases. Sellers tallied her fourth RBI of the game with a single through the left side, scoring Snell with no outs.
 
A new pitcher in the game for the Hokies gave up a two-run single up the middle to Jayce Purdy, pulling the Mocs to within two runs. With one out, a wild pitch moved the runners up and with two outs, Keylon drew a walk to load the bases once again, but a strikeout ended the Chattanooga threat.
 
Virginia Tech spread the lead back to five runs, 12-7, on a bases-loaded, three-run double to left field.
 
UTC would only get one more baserunner through the last two innings.
 
Snell was 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Sellers went 2-for-4 with four RBI and the only home run of the game. Jayce Purdy had two RBI on a single in the fifth.
 
Parrott (2-4) went six innings with three strikeouts and walked 11. The Hokies had six hits and eight runs, seven earned off the Mocs' senior. Taylor Long and Alyssa Lavdis came on in the fourth and faced a combined five batters.
 
The Mocs fall to 14-11 overall and the Hokies move to 23-6 on the year. The two teams will be back in action at Noon Saturday with a second game to follow.
 
SCORING SUMMARY
T1st: Sellers homered to center field, 3 RBI, unearned; Snell scored, unearned; Coltharp scored, unearned.
B1st: Peck singled, advanced to second on fielding error by rf, RBI; Ritter scored, unearned.
B2nd: Ritter singled to left field, RBI; Aldridge advanced to third; Thrunk scored.
T4th: Keylon flied out to lf, SF, RBI; Duran scored, unearned.
B4th: Ritter walked, RBI; Aldridge advanced to second; Thrunk advanced to third; Louko scored.
B4th: Fagan walked, RBI; Ritter advanced to second; Aldridge advanced to third; Thrunk scored.
B4th: Peck doubled to left center, 2 RBI; Fagan advanced to third; Ritter scored. Aldridge scored.
B4th: Greene walked, RBI; Bailey advanced to second; Peck advanced to third; Fagan scored.
B4th: Bennett doubled to left center, 2 RBI; Greene advanced to third; Bailey scored; Peck scored.
T5th: Sellers singled through the left side, RBI; Phillips advanced to second. Lipari advanced to third; Snell scored.
T5th: Purdy singled up the middle, 2 RBI; Sellers advanced to second; Phillips scored; Lipari scored.
B5th: Bennett doubled to left field, advanced to third on a throwing error by lf, 3 RBI; Jackson scored; Greene scored; Peck scored.
 
WP: Lyndsey Grein
LP: Brooke Parrott
SV: Emma Lemley