Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan plays sixth seed Truett McConnell for the Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball tournament championship today at noon in Kingsport, Tenn. Wesleyan outlasted Union (Ky.) 14-12 on Saturday after Truett's second win of the tournament over third seed Bryan, 8-2. Wade Weinburger and Kila Zuttermeister each was 2-for-4 with a run scored for Bryan, which ended its season 37-18. For TWU (38-18) against Union, Edwin Bonilla and Adrian Gonzalez each homered, singled and drove in four runs, while Alfred Cruz hit a three-run homer, Nehwon Norkeh was 2-for-2 with a homer and two RBIs and Dan Ward homered and matched Bonilla with three runs scored.
Softball
» Lee University lost 4-2 to Mississippi College on Saturday night in the Gulf South Conference softball tournament at Huntsville, Ala. That left the Lady Flames (33-18).
Tennis
» Sewanee junior Clementina Davila made the 2017 All-Southern Athletic Association women's tennis first team, and freshman Ellie Czura was the newcomer of the year and joined Christina Merchant on the All-SAA second team. GPS graduate Maggie Crumbliss, Darby Duval and Haley Tucker received honorable mention from Sewanee, which won the SAA regular-season and tournament titles for the fifth year in a row. Sewanee sophomore Jack Gray and senior Avery Schober were men's All-SAA first-teamers with Andres Carro on the second team and fellow freshman Jordan Brewer receiving honorable mention. Gray, from Chattanooga and Baylor School, is 13-2 in singles and 16-5 in doubles, 11-1 with Alejandro Becker, and was the SAA tournament MVP. Sewanee is the host school for the NCAA Division III national tournaments this Friday through Sunday in Chattanooga.
Boat Sports
» While William Weidler of Bessemer, Ala., was winning the Costa FLW Series Southeastern Division finale out of Dayton Boat Dock on Chickamauga Lake with a two-day total of 45 pounds, 2 ounces of bass, Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Ga., did enough with his 32-2 to win the Southeastern points standings for the year. He had won the tournament on Lake Seminole. Weidler earned $48,000 Saturday. Brent Butler of Vonore, Tenn., was fifth with 41-1, good for $11,00, and Whitwell's Hensley Powell (39-0), Dayton's Andy Morgan (37-10), Hixson's Rogne Brown (36-5), Riceville's Nathan Bell (36-1) and Charleston's Thomas Helton (35-14) were ninth, 12th, 15th, 17th and 19th. UTC golf coach Mark Guhne (25-10) and Chattanooga's Nick Cupps (25-1) were fourth and fifth in the co-angler division won by Chase Whisenhunt of Trussville, Ala., with 28-7. Samuel Lemons (23-8) of Vonore and Casey O'Donnell of Langston, Ala. (23-7) were 11th and 12th, and Trenton's David Raines (20-14) was 17th with Bobby Copeland of Calhoun, Tenn. (20-8) 19th.
» Privateer Yacht's Club David Bergevin and Tom Clark won both races Saturday in the Chattanooga Challenge for Catalina 22 class sailboats on Chickamauga Lake, and PYC's Bill Robertson/John Rogers, John Rathjen/Pete Snyder and Britta/Kent Kindervater are third, fourth and fifth in the standings going into today's races. Father and son Sam and Jake Beckman from Percy Priest in Nashville are second.
Running
» Lee's Harold Smith won the men's 800-meter run at the Tennessee Challenge track and field invitational meet Saturday in Knoxville, and former Tennessee Wesleyan standout Avery Hubbard from Chattanooga won the 100- and 200-meter dashes unattached in 10.76 and 21.40 seconds, with Lee's Josiah and Justin Brooks third and seventh and TWU's Josh Parson sixth in the 200. Another Chattanoogan, GPS graduate Tiana Mills of Carson-Newman, won the women's long jump with a leap of 5.40 meters, and Lee's Hannah Buttolph was in a seven-way tie for first in the high jump at 1.55 meters. Lee's Christian Noble was second in the men's 1500. Lee's Amy Carpenter and Becca Umbarger were second and fourth with TWU's Leah Chance sixth in the women's 3000 and Lee's Jessica Childers was third in the 800. Lee's Audrey Smith and Umbarger and TWU's Chance were third through fifth in the 3000 steeplechase, Lee's Jordan Allison was fifth in the womens' 400 hurdles and TWU's Alexis Lankford, Alexandria Johnson, Jymeelah Kirk and Els Hooijdonk were second in the 4x100 relay. TWU had the third-place men's 4x100 and 4x400 relays.
» Former UTC runner Lucas Cotter of Signal Mountain was the overall winner Saturday morning in the Market Street Mile in downtown Chattanooga with a time of 4:31.81, and Rachel Mason of Hixson was the female winner and 12th overall in 5:34.59.