Eberle preseason All-OVC baseball

Senior Sam Eberle from Chattanooga and Notre Dame High School is one of five Jacksonville State University players named to the 13-man preseason All-Ohio Valley Conference baseball team. Eberle was picked as the catcher but also has played third base during his Gamecocks career. He batted .356 with 88 hits and 54 RBIs last season. JSU finished second to Austin Peay in the 2011 conference tournament, and they were picked in that same order for this year with Tennessee Tech third. Tech had no preseason All-OVC selections, but the league's announcement release Tuesday led the Golden Eagles' segment with sophomore first baseman Zach Stephens from Soddy-Daisy, who hit .310 with team highs of 10 home runs and 49 RBIs last year. Collegiate Baseball made him a Freshman All-American.

* CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Nine Cleveland State pitchers allowed a total of five hits in 14 innings as the Cougars defeated Roane State 6-2 and 3-2 in junior college baseball Tuesday. Tyler Sexton and Jeb Scoggins were the official winning pitchers with Tyler Kilgore and Thomas Huddleston credited with saves. Derek Shugart was 2-for-2 with two stolen bases, two runs and two RBIs for Cleveland State in the first game, when Cody Hiefnar was 3-for-4, Colin Sullivan was 2-for-2 and Colby Harmon tripled and singled. Those three had RBI singles in game two.

* CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Lee University improved to 5-0 for this baseball season with a 15-0 win Tuesday against Tennessee Temple at Olympic Field. Robert Reyes and Blake Barber each had two hits and drove in three runs, Reyes with a double and Barber with a triple, and Mike Fasolo was 2-for-2 with a triple and two RBIs for the Flames, ranked third in the NAIA. Mike Moore was 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Edmanuel Rivera scored three runs and five pitchers combined on the seven-hit shutout. Temple leadoff batter Caden Shadrick was 3-for-4.

* ROME, Ga. -- Tyson Latham and two relievers pitched well Tuesday for Bryan College, but Shorter's Ryan Newell and Stuart Charleston were even better as the host Hawks won 3-0. Newell allowed two hits and struck out 12 batters in seven innings and Charleston threw two hitless innings with three strikeouts for Shorter (4-2), which got RBI singles from Mike Miranda and Hunter Smith. Bryan (3-1) made seven errors but only one run was unearned. Latham allowed six hits and one run in six innings.

* GREENWOOD, S.C. -- Shortstop Troy Zawadzki was 2-for-4 with a home run and fellow former Cleveland State standout Lance Rorex was 2-for-5 in Carson-Newman's 10-inning 4-2 baseball victory Tuesday at Lander University. Third baseman Rorex starred in high school at Lookout Valley. Kyle Koeneman homered to break the tie in the top of the 10th and then pitched the bottom of the inning for a save for the Eagles (2-2).

Soccer

* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga soccer coach J.D. Kyzer announced two additional 2012 signees Tuesday: Logan Higgins from Assumption High School in Louisville, Ky., and Clare Latham from Briarcrest Christian near Memphis. An all-state player, Latham made the Commercial Appeal Best of Preps team as a center midfielder and defender. "She's an excellent ball-handler," Kyzer said in the UTC release. "She sees things on the field that others don't, and she has an extremely high work rate. She's like a sponge. She absorbs anything she's told and incorporates that into her game." Higgins is an all-district selection who played some as a defender, a midfielder and a forward for Assumption, which was runner-up in Kentucky Region 13. "Logan has a 'never give up' mentality. She is tenacious and is one of the hardest working players I've ever seen. You know when the game is over that she's given you everything she's got."

Basketball

* The Tennessee Temple University women's basketball team beat visiting Truett-McConnell 59-51 on Tuesday, giving the Lady Crusaders a 4-21 record with a two-game win streak. They won 54-49 Saturday night at Oakwood in Huntsville.

Football

* Red Bank High School receiver and defensive back Kameno Watson has signed a scholarship to play football for Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky. That is an NAIA school in the Mid-South Conference, and the Blue Raiders' schedule includes games against Tennessee schools Bethel and Cumberland University. This past season Watson caught 38 passes for 597 yards with three touchdowns and also had 29.5 tackles with an interception returned for a TD. He was named the District 6-AA special-teams player of the year with multiple punt or kickoff returns for TDs.

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