The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team rallied in the second game of its Sunday doubleheader at East Tennessee state for a 5-4 win to complete the three-game Southern Conference series sweep. The Mocs (23-8, 6-0 SoCon) won the first game 5-2. The Mocs got home runs from Jenny Garcia and Nicole Osterman in the first game, and freshman pitcher Cori Jennings gave up five hits and struck out three to pick up the complete-game win and her 10th victory of the season. Sam Taylor and Criket Blanco each had two hits in the game one victory. In the second game, UTC fell behind 3-0 heading to the fifth inning before rallying with two runs each in the fifth and sixth innings and going ahead in the top of the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Alyssa Taylor to score pinch runner Courtney Ervin. Freshman Kailey Palazzolo picked up the win with two innings of no-hit work in relief of starter Taylor Deason. UTC will be at home Tuesday night at 6 for a nonconference game against Tennessee Tech.
* A two-run home run by Kaylie Drew and combined three-hit pitching by Leigh Beatenbough and Angie Hughes gave Lee a 2-1 softball victory Sunday at West Floprida and a sweep of the Gulf South series in Pensacola. Drew's ninth homer of the season came with two outs in the sixth inning and scored Dominique Hannah, who was 2-for-3 with a double for Lee (22-12, 12-8). Emily Dagnan also was 2-for-3.
* Kelsey Payne from East Hamilton and Savannah Moore from Soddy-Daisy homered and Payne added a 10th-inning RBI in a 9-8 softball loss for Brenau against Mobile this past weekend, and Payne was 2-for-3 and Madison Lacy from Dade County hit a two-run homer in an 8-3 loss to William Carey. Brenau (19-5) then won 8-4 with Payne going 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Tennis
* The UTC women's tennis team edged Furman 4-3 on Sunday, ending a 24-match losing streak to the Paladins that went back to 1997. The Mocs had lost the last four meetings 4-3 but this time got over the hump with (14-2, 2-0 SoCon) with two of three doubles wins and singles victories by Kayla Jones, Samantha Caswell and Alison Storie. Caswell's sister Harper won at No. 5 singles for Furman (4-12, 0-2).
Golf
* The UTC men's golf team finished ninth in the Furman Intercollegiate tournament Sunday in Greenville, S.C., with a three-day score of 27-over-par 891. Wes Gosselin led UTC with a 72 on Sunday to finish a team-best tie for 22nd ad 3-over 219. Andrew Weathers was one shot back at 220 and tied for 25th.
* Matt Oxford of Rocky Face and Philip Hughes of Kennesaw won the 2015 Georgia Four-Ball golf championship Sunday at Valdosta with a 10-under-par 206 for 54 holes, and Dalton residents Dwight Hefner and Duane McMullen won flight five with a 222. Dalton's Kyle Pettyjohn and Rocky Face's Chris Tallent Sr. were second and Calhoun's Greg Brock and Dalton's Howell Kerr were third in the second flight at 218 and 219, and Dalton's Joel Hughes was third with Jerry Hughes of Valdosta in the third flight at 226.
Baseball
* The Lee baseball team rebounded from two extra-inning one-run losses Saturday with a 7-4 Gulf South win Sunday at West Florida. Trenton Hill was 3-for-4 and scored three runs and Andres Nelo and Chris Adams each drove in two runs for the Flames (18-12-1, 9-10-1), while Jacob Potts and two relievers held the Argonauts (18-12, 12-9) to six hits and one earned run. Nelo homered and doubled and Siosi Poti and Josh Tate each had two hits also for Lee, Poti scoring twice. Poti and Nathan Wierzgac each had two hits and an RBI in Saturday's late 5-4 loss.
* Birmingham-Southern, ranked fifth in NCAA Division III, beat visiting Sewanee 11-4 and 5-0 in Southern Athletic Association baseball Saturday and finished the sweep with a 6-5 win Sunday. Tony Dykes had three hits and joined Michael Walker and Ryan Poole with RBIs in Saturday's first loss for Sewanee. Sunday, the Tigers had a 5-4 lead in the sixth before BSC rallied with a run in the sixth and the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth. Dykes and Jackson Cooper each went 3-for-5 for Sewanee in Sunday's loss.
Fishing
* The Soddy-Daisy bass-fishing duo of Elijah Cartwright and Jacob Thomas won the Battle of Chickamauga High School Classic out of the Dayton Boat Dock on Saturday, and Central's Gavin Ainslie and A.J. Barnes were second, three pounds lighter than the winners' 32.59 pounds. Rhea County had five of the top 10 boats out of more than 100 entered from six states.