Mississippi State's Dakota Hudson from Sequatchie County High School was the Southeastern Conference baseball pitcher of the week after being the league's only player to pitch at least eight innings with fewer than three runs allowed during the opening weekend of conference play. The junior right-hander allowed four hits and struck out eight batters in nine innings in the Bulldogs' 13-inning 2-1 win over No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt on Friday, and the run he allowed was unearned. Hudson is 2-1 with a 1.38 earned run average in five starts for the Bulldogs (14-6-1, 2-1), who won a series at Vanderbilt for the first time since 2002.
* Covenant College freshman Grant Kierpa was honored as USA South baseball rookie pitcher of the week. He made his first college start March 15 and allowed one hit and an unearned run in five innings against Berry. He struck out five batters and walked one. He also has a save this season.
* The Chattanooga State baseball team won its TCCAA home series against Volunteer State this weekend by sandwiching 11-5 and 4-3 wins around a 12-4 loss. Now 17-5 overall and 7-2 in league play, the Tigers play three games Thursday and Friday at third-place Cleveland State.
Auto Racing
* Cynthia Warnock, the only female in the class, won the Super Pro competition and $1,500 at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip this past Saturday night. Warnock won with a 4.62-second run on a 4.62 dial in a 632-cubic-inch Chevrolet dragster owned by her father, Ronnie Warnock. She also had the night's low elapsed time, 4.61 seconds, and top speed, 148.95 mph. Steve Babcock was second in the Pro eliminations with a 5.00 run on a 4.98 dial in a Chevy dragster. Jeffrey Montgomery from Cartersville, Ga., won the Foot Brake class in his 350 Chevy-powered 1986 Mustang with a 6.56-second run on a 6.53 dial. Doug Frazier was second at 10.49 on a 10.42 dial in a 1997 Chevy S10 pickup. Carson Emmett from Cedar Bluff, Ala., was the Junior Dragster winner with Kaleb Winters of Soddy-Daisy second.
Tennis
* Covenant sophomore Chris Cox was chosen the USA South men's tennis player of the week after going 3-0 in both singles and doubles last week.
Softball
* Morehead State junior shortstop Karly Thompson from Blue Ridge, Ga., was the Ohio Valley Conference softball player of the week after batting .529 with an .824 slugging percentage as the Eagles went 4-1. She had the team's only home run of the week and doubled twice among her nine hits, and she drove in 11 runs. She was 7-for-11 with eight RBIs in a sweep of Belmont.
* Sewanee's Rachel Hoffman was the Southern Athletic Association softball player of the week for the Tigers' 5-2 week. They scored double-digit runs in four of the five wins, including a league-record single-game total in a 34-22 victory at Sweet Briar, and Hoffman batted .583 for the week with 10 hits, six doubles, 10 RBIs and 10 runs scored. She was 5-for-7 with three RBIs and five runs against Sweet Briar, when Courtney Sanders had four hits and a school-record seven RBIs and Caroline Holmes had four hits, five RBIs and five runs.
* Katie Pritchett from Heritage High in Ringgold went 3-for-3 with two doubles, four RBIs and three runs scored in Carson-Newman's 11-3 softball win Monday against Mars Hill in Jefferson City, Tenn. That followed a 6-1 win for CNU (18-8) in which Pritchett was 0-for-3 but walked and scored a run.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee's Hayden Hunt was the SAA men's lacrosse offensive player of the week after totaling six goals, an assist and five ground balls in the Tigers' 2-1 week.
* The Sewanee women's lacrosse team lost 12-8 on Monday to Savannah College of Art and Design, which is 7-0. Katie Riddle had four goals and two assists and Meredith Sackett scored two goals for Sewanee (4-7). Brianna Young made 13 saves.