"Boxing in the Ballroom" is set for Saturday night at the Chattanooga Convention Center as the fourth professional card locally presented by Grind Nation Promotions. Grind Nation CEO DeMarcus "All Business" Rogers will headline the event in a fight against Agustin Cicero for the vacant USA Tennessee welterweight title. There will be five fights in all, two of them matching heavyweights. Included will be 9-0 heavyweight Jeanpier Augustin from Haiti, 7-0 Mohammed Adams from Detroit and 3-0 Claude Staten Jr. from New York, according to Rogers. The boxing begins at 7 p.m.; doors open at 5, and tickets will be sold there.
Baseball
- Geremy Walton went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs as Lee beat visiting Young Harris 11-3 on Wednesday. Peyton Meeker was 3-for-4 with a double and drove in two runs for the Flames (22-18), and Wes Albert (5-2) struck out five in five innings.
- Sewanee beat visiting Covenant 8-3 and 10-6 on Tuesday for the Tigers' first baseball sweep of the Scots in six years. Joel Johnson's three-run home run in the fifth inning provided the only scoring for Covenant (13-22) in the first game, when Johnson, Caleb Bloye, Luke Harvey and Donny Lewis had two hits apiece in defeat. Jackson Cooper and Derek Hullings each was 2-for-4 with two RBIs for Sewanee (16-17), while Max Murray was 2-for-4 and scored twice and Drew Mancuso was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run. Trey Akins was 3-for-3 with two runs and an RBI for the Tigers in game two, when Cooper was 3-for-5 and scored twice, Murray had two hits with an RBI and a run and Jared Demkowicz had four RBIs. For Covenant in the second game, Bloye was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs, Lewis was 2-for-3 with a triple and a run and Forrest Hunter hit a two-run homer.
- Despite not making the USA South baseball tournament, Covenant's Bloye and Hunter made the all-conference first team announced Wednesday, and Harvey made the second team. Hunter also was the Scots' representative on the all-sportsmanship team. The senior catcher is batting .397, while junior first baseman Bloye is hitting .344 with four homers, 24 RBIs, 23 runs and 10 stolen bases. Harvey, a senior outfielder, is batting .317 with 19 steals and 29 runs. Will Mayfield was Covenant's golf all-sportsmanship selection.
Softball
- Bryan swept visiting Montreat in an Appalachian Athletic Conference doubleheader Wednesday, 3-2 and 4-3 in nine innings. Heidi Smith went 2-for-3, Aubrie Osborne drove in two runs and Becca Zimmerman drove in the other for the Lady Lions (20-18, 14-4) in the first game. Kim Borowski, Olivia Gore and Courtney Petty each went 3-for-4 - Gore with three RBIs and the game-winning hit - in the second game. Petty was also the winning pitcher.
- Hiwassee dropped the Sewanee softball team to 1-29 for the season with 8-6 and 9-2 wins Tuesday. Madison Whitmire and Ashunti Cooper were 4-for-5 and 3-for-5 with two runs apiece in the first win for the 7-21 visitors, while McKenzie Bedwell drove in two runs and Beth Barcroft and Claudia Hutchins each had two hits and an RBI. Taylor Wagner was 3-for-4 and Caroline Sweetin had two RBIs for Sewanee. Wagner was 2-for-4 in game two, and Amanda Watters was 2-for-3 with an RBI, but Hutchins struck out eight as the Hiwassee pitcher and Courtney Savage and Alison Armstrong were a combined 7-for-7 with a triple, two doubles, six RBIs and three runs scored.
Lacrosse
- Sewanee's women beat visiting Oglethorpe 16-3 in a Southern Athletic Association matchup Wednesday. Mary Kate Myers scored three goals to lead the Tigers (13-3, 5-1), while Preston Cooper and Alden Woolford each had three assists and one goal.
- Nicole Kernohan and Kelsey Dover scored five goals apiece, Kernohan with two assists, and Kendra Parenteau had four goals and an assist as visiting Young Harris beat Lee's first-year women's program 21-1. Brianne Schapira scored for Lee (0-13, 0-7), which got 15 saves from Jayne Renfro.