Led by Tia Teiniketo from Baylor School, the NAIA's Dalton State women's golf team finished fourth at 615 Monday in the Samford Spring Invitational at Hoover, Ala., behind NCAA Division I schools Jacksonville State (596), Samford and Western Kentucky. Teiniketo was 18th individually at 153. DSC's Isabel Rijos was 23rd, Katie Dalton and Caroline Griffin shared 25th and Haeijin Choe was 27th.
* Ashley Gilliam from Manchester, Tenn., won the girls' 14-18 division of the Pensacola Junior Classic on the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour with a 150 for two rounds at Stonebrook in Pace, Fla. Gilliam and runner-up Elise Schultz of Pace matched first-round 72s, and Gilliam edged Schultz by two shots Sunday. The third-place finisher shot 161.
Basketball
* Covenant College freshman Caleb Haynes from Section, Ala., was honored Monday for the third time this season as USA South men's basketball rookie of the week. Haynes had 13 points and four rebounds in a win at Huntingdon and 17 points and nine rebounds in a defeat of Averett, when he was 6-of-7 from the field. He is second in the league in field-goal percentage at .612 and is averaging 8.1 points and a team-high 6.1 rebounds a game.
* The Covenant women are seeded fifth from the West for the USA South tournament and will play No. 4 seed LaGrange at 7 p.m. Friday at Maryville for the chance to play top seed Maryville in a quarterfinal at 5 p.m. Saturday. Covenant (12-12, 6-8) won four of its last five regular-season game to qualify for the tournament for the first time.
Baseball
* Covenant freshman right-hander Zach Kyzer is the USA South baseball rookie pitcher of the week after his five shutout innings in a 6-1 win over Emory & Henry in the Scots' weekend sweep. He allowed three hits.
* Cleveland State has added a baseball game at 3 p.m. Wednesday against Bryant & Stratton from Virginia after going 2-1 in a season-opening weekend at Barnesville, Ga. In Saturday's games the Cougars lost 10-9 to Gordon State and won 9-7 over Columbia State. Hagan Kennedy and John Anderson homered in the loss, when Chase Fullington and Sean McDermott each had three hits and combined for three doubles and six runs scored or batted in and John Hennen tripled and singled, drove in two and scored two. Hennen tripled again among three hits against Columbia State, while McDermott was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Noah Hill and Cameron Payne each had two hits and two RBIs. Hill homered.
Bowling
* Chattanooga Christian honored senior Jack Freeman on Monday for his scholarship to bowl for Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Ga. Freeman, who led the district in season average and finished a program-best seventh in the Division I individual state tournament this year, plans to study communications, pre-law or kinesiology, according to a CCS release. Chargers coach Gene Nelson said he also was recruited by Bethel, Tennessee Wesleyan and Martin Methodist. "As a smaller, private Christian college with a high degree of excellence and one of the best bowling programs in the country," Freeman said, "Emmanuel offered me the best opportunity to continue to grow in my faith, academics, bowling and leadership." Said Nelson: "Though Jack had several coaches who helped him along the way, it was his self-motivation that got him where he is today. His belief in God and himself really drove him. I believe he has only begun to touch his potential."
Swimming
* The Vargo sisters from Signal Mountain helped the King University women's team set 11 school records in the Appalachian Swimming Conference meet this past weekend in Christiansburg, Va. Sophomore Jess Vargo was on the bronze-medal team that set a King record in the 800-yard freestyle relay, and senior Sam Vargo was on the third-place record-breaking 400 medley relay. Both were on the record 200 medley and 400 free relays that finished sixth. Jess set school standards with her fourth-place 200 individual medley and seventh-place 100 breaststroke.