The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf team posted its second consecutive 295 total Saturday and is in ninth place out of 18 teams going into the final round of the Furman Intercollegiate tournament at Greenville, S.C. Georgia State leads by five strokes at 570. UTC's Liam Johnston and Andrew Weathers share 27th place individually at 146, and Wes Gosselin is tied for 39th at 147 following a team-best 72 Saturday. Ewan Scott is at 152.
* First-round leaders Matt Oxford of Rocky Face and Philip Hughes of Kennesaw remain tied for first going into the final round of the Georgia Four-Ball tournament in Valdosta. They and 2011 winners David Matthews and Doug Rayford of Valdosta are at 9-under-par 135, four shots ahead of the next duo. Dalton's Tony Patterson and Calhoun's Tre Lamb slipped back into a tie for seventh in the championship flight at 143. Dalton residents Dwight Hefner and Duane McMullen are tied for first in flight five at 146, Joel Hughes of Dalton and Jerry Hughes of Valdosta share the third-flight lead at 147, and Dalton's Howell Kerr and Calhoun's Greg Brock are tied for fourth at 147 in flight two.
Baseball
* West Florida edged Lee University 2-1 in 12 innings in the first game of their Gulf South Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday in Pensacola, Fla. A walk, a hit batter, a bunt single and another walk provided the winning run for the Argonauts (17-11, 11-8). Chris Adams homered in the third inning and Dustin Lawson allowed seven hits in his nine innings pitched for Lee (17-11, 8-9-1), which totaled 13 hits in the game. Nate Wierzgac was 3-for-5 and Siosi Poti, Andres Nelo and Trent Hill had two hits apiece in defeat.
* Tennessee Temple took two 12-2 wins against Johnson University on Saturday at Signal Mountain's high school field, with 14 and 15 hits. Alex Walker pitched a five-hitter in game one, when Micah Wyatt was 3-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored, Trey Hill homered and doubled and both drove in and scored three runs, Chase Burke was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Caleb Lee also was 2-for-3 and Ryan Bruce was 2-for-4. Chase White pitched a two-hitter with no earned runs and went 2-for-3 with two RBIs in game two, when Bruce was 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs, Wyatt was 3-for-4 again and scored three times, Hill was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs and Lee also had two RBIs for the Crusaders (13-5).
* Micah Mabe pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts and Covenant College scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning to edge North Carolina Wesleyan 3-2 in the first game of their USA South baseball doubleheader Saturday, ending a seven-game losing streak for the Scots (8-13, 5-8). They are leading the second game 15-11, but it was suspended in the top of the ninth and will be resumed Monday before the third game of the series. K.C. Simons had two Covenant RBIs in the completed game.
* Tennessee Wesleyan edged visiting St. Andrews 4-3 and 3-0 in Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball Saturday, and Bryan lost 8-7 and won 8-3 at Reinhardt. TWC, ranked 13th in the NAIA, is 25-7 overall and 11-2 in AAC play, while third-place Bryan is 26-9 and 8-5. Reinhardt and St. Andrews are fourth and fifth at 8-6 and 6-5.
* The Walters State baseball team improved to 33-5 overall and 14-1 in the TCCAA with 5-2 and 9-1 wins Saturday at Cleveland State. Caleb Longley and Connor Coakley had the first-game RBIs for the Cougars (12-14, 3-11), who had only one hit in game two.
Running
* Eighteen-year-olds Paul Schupp and Amy Carpenter were the overall winners of the 65 Roses 5k road race Saturday morning in Cleveland. Schupp completed the 3.1-mile course beginning and ending on the Lee University campus in 16 minutes, 34 seconds. He was seven seconds ahead of Red Bank Middle School teacher and coach Geno Phillips, the masters winner, and Dean Thompson, grand masters winner Tim Ensign and Ryan Heming were third through fifth. Carpenter, a Lee freshman runner from Indianapolis, was ninth overall in 19:18 as the first female, with Jennifer Curtis the women's runner-up and 20th overall. There were 436 finishers in the fundraiser for the fight against cystic fibrosis.
Football
* New UTC assistant football coaches Tony Brown, Shawn Bryson and Rod West will be the guest speakers for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club's noon luncheon meeting Monday, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without. Brown grew up in Chattanooga and starred for City High School and the University of Memphis before an eight-year NFL career, most notably with the Titans; Bryson also played in the NFL after his playing days at Tennessee.