Baylor School senior Tia Teiniketo has signed to attend and play golf for Dalton State College in 2016-17. "I'm so excited to become a member of the Roadrunner family," the Finland native said during a signing party at Baylor, according to a DSC release. Roadrunners coach Jim McGrew praised the championship tradition and professional golfers alumni of the Baylor program and said, "We're only in our second year, but in that first year we finished second in the nation (NAIA) and had an individual national champion and a couple of All-Americans and four Academic All-Americans. When we're looking for players, it's someone like Tia." Baylor coach Gary Partrick noted that Teiniketo "had two years of fundamentally sound golf at Baylor. Her stroke average this year was 74.1. She shot one round in two years that started with an 8. We're happy to send her to Dalton State and we're happy to keep her close."
Basketball
* Former Tennessee Vols guard Jordan McRae set an NBA D-League record Tuesday by scoring 61 points in a 130-123 overtime win for the Delaware 87ers against the Canton Charge. As reported by the Knoxville News Sentinel, McRae was 21-of-34 from the field (including 3-of-8 on 3s) and hit 16 of 18 free throws. He made the shot that sent the game to overtime. His previous D-League high was 34 points in November.
* The Covenant College men's USA South basketball game postponed from last Saturday at Averett has been reset for 5:30 p.m. next Tuesday at the Danville, Va., school. The Scots' nonconference game scheduled for that night at Berea (Ky.) has been called off. Covenant hosts Greensboro and Methodist in USAS play Friday and Saturday.
Track & Field
* Led by freshman twins Josiah and Justin Brooks from Athens, Ga., Lee University finished third in the non-Division I collegiate men's team standings at the Emory Crossplex Invitational indoor track and field meet last weekend in Birmingham, Ala. Tennessee Wesleyan was ninth out of 18 men's teams that scored at least one point and 11th with Lee 12th out of 19 women's teams. The Brooks brothers were first and second in the 400-meter dash in 48.72 and 48.84 seconds - Josiah's 48.72 a provisional qualifying time for the Division II nationals - Josiah was third in the long jump and triple jump and Justin was third in the 200 and ninth in the long jump with Hunter Goforth sixth. Flames teammates Seth Eagleson and Matt Jenkins were second and sixth in the 5000 and Terris Elliott was third in the 800 and fourth in the 1-mile run, with Harold Smith ninth in the latter. Lee's Christian Smith was sixth in the shot put. In women's highlights, Lee's Aubrey Smith was second in the 3000 and Adrian Martin was third in the 60-meter dash and the 200. Tennessee Wesleyan's Cadarius Harris and Josh Parsons were second and eighth in the men's 60, Chaz Hawkins was sixth in the 60 hurdles and the Bulldogs won the men's distance medley relay in 10:19.35 and finished seventh and ninth in the 4x400. The first-place relay runners were Chris Gabez, Jake Morgenstern, Bryce Choate, Jacob Simmons and Saheed Oyeshile. Lee's teams will be back at the Birmingham Crossplex this Sunday for the Privateer Invitational hosted by the University of New Orleans.
Softball
* The strength of the Southeastern Conference in softball is such that Tennessee was picked fifth in the league coaches' preseason voting but is eighth and ninth in the two major national polls. The Vols team co-coached by Ralph and Karen Weekly is No. 8 in the NFCA listing, which has two-time defending national champion Florida No. 1 and LSU, Auburn and Alabama third through fifth behind Michigan. Tennessee was picked ninth in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25, which also has Florida, Michigan and LSU in the top three spots with Alabama fifth and Auburn sixth. Tennessee returns nine players from the team that was 47-17 last year with the program's seventh trip to the Women's College World Series.