Mocs women dominate over Samford

GoMocs-  Chattanooga women’s basketball was on cruise control in their most recent matchup against Samford on Saturday, with the Mocs shooting their way to a 75-52 win over the Bulldogs in front of the McKenzie Arena faithful.

The Mocs (14-3, 2-0 SoCon) shot the lights out of the Roundhouse on Saturday with the team going 58 percent from the floor, 50 percent from three and 100 percent from the line in a thrashing of the Bulldogs (8-9, 0-2 SoCon). This marked the first time that the Mocs have finished perfect from the free throw line as a team since December of 2018.

The opening 1:30 of Saturday’s game looked like the only bad stretch of basketball that UTC would put on the floor in their matchup with the Bulldogs, as Samford got off to a 7-0 lead early-on. While it took a little time to make up that ground, the Mocs fought their way back into the game over the remainder of the first to head into quarter two trailing by just one point, 14-13.

It then became the Jada Guinn show over the next couple of minutes in McKenzie Arena, with the first eight points of the second quarter belonging to the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, native. The Mocs weren’t done there as Sigrun Olafsdottir connected on a long three-point try to beat the shot clock, opening the quarter on a 11-0 UTC run that saw the Mocs up 24-14 just like that.

The run sparked a true turn in the game, with the Mocs keeping their foot on the gas for the remainder of the frame to take a 37-26 lead into halftime. Chattanooga’s 24-point second quarter matches the team’s highest-scoring second quarter of the season from November 6 against King University.

The third quarter was nearly identical to the second, with the Mocs outscoring Samford 23-12 in the third quarter to bring a 60-38 lead into the final 10 minutes of play. Chattanooga ultimately put up a total of 47 points over the course of the second and third quarters, a vast difference to the Bulldogs’ 24 points in that same span.