After losing 4-3 and winning 11-5 Tuesday at Talladega College, the Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team is 5-3 for 2017 - with all eight games in Alabama. The Bulldogs finally will play at home Friday and Saturday against Brescia. TWU gave up a three-run bottom of the seventh inning in Tuesday's loss, when Collin Ridout was 1-for-1 with two walks, a home run and two runs scored and Nehwon Norkeh hit a two-run homer. Ryan Williams gave up five hits and an unearned run in his five innings on the mound. Norkeh was 3-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs in the win, while Adrian Gonzalez was 3-for-3 with a homer and two runs scored, Dan Ward was 2-for-3 with three runs and an RBI, Ridout was 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI and Chris Allen was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
* Covenant College's baseball game scheduled today at Oglethorpe in Atlanta has been postponed by the expectation of bad weather. It is reset for next Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Softball
* Lee University's Abby McKinney from Ringgold is the Gulf South Conference softball freshman of the week for her contributions to the Lady Flames' 5-1 week. She went 3-0 with a 2.92 earned run average and 12 strikeouts in 12 innings pitched, and she batted .619 with 10 RBIs. She is 5-1 as a pitcher and leads Lee (9-3) with a .600 batting average and 15 RBIs.
* Birmingham-Southern won 4-1 and 6-1 in Division III softball Wednesday at Covenant. Shannon Schmitt was 2-for-3 and Erika Mast had the RBI in the first game for Covenant (4-2), while Cris Gant pitched a four-hitter with eight strikeouts and allowed only one earned run. Madalyn Ames and Casey Grover each was 2-for-3 for the Lady Scots in game two, when Savannah Lee was 2-for-3 with a homer, a double and three RBIs for BSC (2-2). The Panthers' Kendall Hamm was 2-for-3 with a two-run home run in game one.
* Tennessee Wesleyan's softball team is 3-3 after winning 10-0 in five innings and 7-1 on Tuesday at Stillman. In the first game Baylee Sutton was 4-for-4 with a homer and five RBIs and Maria Suarez was 2-for-3 with three RBIs in support of Hanna Manley's four-hit pitching. Laken Collier, Makenzie Hopkins and Sutton each had three hits in the second game, and Briana Muller matched Collier's two RBIs. Rachel Mathews and Courtney Jones combined on a two-hitter.
Track & Field
* Bryan College, Covenant and the host school all had some good finishes in Sewanee's Tiger Indoor Invitational track and field meet last weekend, led by Bryan's Tyler Boone winning the men's mile run in 4:29.18 and the Lions' Zach Baird, James Eliezer, Taylor Moore and Brady Smith winning the distance medley relay with Covenant's Caleb Keitt, Reed Vaughn, Tristan Dunlavy and Micah Sneller third. NCAA Division II member Mississippi College won both the men's and women's team titles. Dalton State's Emily Poole and Nayeli Jacobo, running unattached, were first and third in the women's mile, and Poole was third in the 800 with Bryan's Tori Olinger, also unattached, fifth. Covenant's Lilly Smith and Hannah Samuels were second and fourth in the women's 3000, and Smith, Margaret Fitch, McKinzie Hummel and Anna Porch were third in the DMR. Sewanee's Ash Midyett was second in the men's 800, the Tigers' Will DuBose was third in pole vault and Ky-Edward Anderson, Miles Martin, Jake Crabtree and Davis Couch were second in the 4x400 relay with a Covenant foursome fourth. Bryan's Eliezer was third in the 55 dash, and teammate Michael Briggs was fourth in the 400; unattached Lion Jordan Schroeder was fourth in the 800. Covenant's Sneller and Matthew Tueller were fourth and ffith in the 3000, and Mason Gregoire was fifth in long jump and the 200.
Boxing
* The Red Bank Boxing Club will host an evening of amateur fights Saturday at the Luken sports building behind Red Bank High School. The card includes boxers from Georgia and Alabama as well as Tennessee, and the competition is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Admission costs $7 with no charge for ages 12 and under.