Tennessee co-head softball coach Ralph Weekly, who previously worked at UT-Chattanooga, moved into fifth place all-time in NCAA Division I in coaching wins with the Volunteers' 5-0 record last week in the Tennessee Invitational. He now has 1,274 victories and is 12 short of Yvette Girouard for fourth place. Weekly and his co-coach wife, Karen, have guided the Vols to 13 NCAA tournaments in a row, seven Women's College World Series appearances and two national runner-up finishes.
- Covenant College lost 4-0 and won 6-1 in a USA South softball doubleheader Wednesday at LaGrange. Cris Gant (3-1) and Sarah Huskey combined to pitch a three-hitter with seven strikeouts in the win for the Lady Scots (9-5, 3-1), when Erika Mast was 2-for-2 with two runs and an RBI and Shade Epes and Kaitlyn Sirmons each was 2-for-3. Shannon Schmitt and Madyson Gibbins were 2-for-3 in game one.
Basketball
- Cleveland State lost 69-58 to No. 2 seed and host Walters State, and Chattanooga State lost 91-77 to Southwest Tennessee in the men's quarterfinals of the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII basketball tournament Wednesday night in Morristown. Victor Curry had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Tevin Olison had 14 points and eight rebounds for Cleveland State (16-9); Ricky Dunnaway had 15 and 15 and Brandon Goldsmith scored 16 for Walters (22-6). For Chattanooga State (16-13), Traevis Graham and Maleek Taylor had 14 points apiece, and Boban Jacdonmi had 10 each in points and rebounds. Toriano Stokes led with 22 points for Southwest Tennessee (19-9).
- Despite 21 points and 11 rebounds from Megan Billingsby, the Bryan College women's basketball season ended Wednesday in Sioux City, Iowa, in the first round of the NAIA Division II tournament. Concordia of Nebraska (32-2), one of the No. 1 seeds, beat the Lady Lions 101-66. Amber Levi scored 17 points and Maebry McNeese added 10 for Bryan (18-15), which committed 32 turnovers. Reinhardt, with several players from Georgia high schools near Chattanooga, plays today against College of the Ozarks.
- UTC senior Jasmine Joyner was chosen the Tennessee Sports Writers Association women's basketball player of the week for the second time in a row after leading the Mocs to the Southern Conference tournament championship. Joyner already was the SoCon defensive player of the year and first-team all-conference; then she was the tournament MVP after averaging 16.7 points, 11.3 rebounds and three blocked shots per game at Asheville, N.C. She is eighth all-time in NCAA Division I with 436 career blocks.
Baseball
- Bryan's Wade Weinburger followed his selection as the Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the week by being chosen the TSWA player of the week. He batted .714 with three walks, three home runs, eight RBIs and six runs scored in a three-game AAC sweep of St. Andrews.
- Lee edged visiting Carson-Newman 6-5 on Nathan Wierzgac's homer in the bottom of the 11th inning Wednesday. Jordan Howard was 3-for-5 with a homer, three RBIs and two runs for Lee (14-5), and Geremy Walton, Peyton Meeker and Wierzgac had two hits apiece.
- The NAIA's 10th-ranked Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team dropped No. 1 Faulkner to 20-3 for the season with a 2-1 win in Montgomery, Ala. Collin Ridout was 2-for-4 and homered in the sixth along with Dan Ward for the Bulldogs (14-7), and Aaron Ford pitched a four-hitter with nine strikeouts.
- Ryan Lloyd and Greg Tye combined on a four-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts, and Grant Crosby and three relievers also allowed no earned runs as Cleveland State beat the Tusculum junior varsity 3-0 and 9-2. John Hennen was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer in a three-run fifth inning in the first game for the Cougars (12-3). They had a seven-run fifth in game two, with a two-run double by Trent Elliot and a two-run home by John Anderson, and Chase Fullington had a two-run single in the first inning. John Sharpe had two hits and scored twice.