No. 17-ranked Sewanee will be hosting one of eight NCAA Division III women's tennis regionals this weekend and will open at 10 a.m. CDT Saturday against No. 13 Washington & Lee. Rose-Hulman and Methodist will square off Friday morning with the winner facing No. 3 Emory at noon CDT Saturday. Sewanee also is the host school for the Division III nationals May 22-27 at the Champions Club in Chattanooga. One of the 19-5 Sewanee women's leaders is Baylor School alumna Maggie Crumbliss. Another Baylor graduate, Jack Gray, is a leader for the 18-6 and 22nd-ranked Sewanee men, who will play 29th-ranked W&L on Saturday in their regional at Emory in Atlanta.
Golf
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf coach Mark Guhne announced Monday that Dominic Jones of Helsinki, Finland, has signed to join the Mocs. Jones plans to enroll in January and redshirt the 2018 spring season. He has represented Finland in the last two Europeans Nations Cup competitions and tied for fourth place in the 2015 Turkish Amateur and tied for ninth in the 2016 Finnish Amateur. He has played in seven pro events. "Dominic is one of the top players in Finland," Guhne said in a UTC release. "He's represented his country in a lot of international events. He's played in some big stages. Coming in with that kind of experience, I think he's going to be a big help for us. He's a great ball-striker. He's had top-level coaching." Jones joins another Finnish player, A.J. Lintunen from Baylor School, among Guhne's signees for 2017-18.
* Lee University shot a collective 299 Monday in the first round of the NCAA Division II South/Southeast men's golf regional at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and is in 14th place but only one shot out of 10th and only 14 behind leader Lynn in the 54-hole event. Lee seniors Shea Sylvester and Adam Wright shot 74s, sophomore Matt Johnson carded a 75 and freshman Scott Odell added a 76.
* The 14th-ranked Lee women are tied for seventh, 10 shots behind leader Barry University, after the first round of their regional in Elgin, S.C. Sam Burrus paced the Lady Flames' 318 on Monday with a 77, followed by Haverly Harrold at 78 and Caroline Moore at 79.
Baseball/Softball
* No. 2 seed Chattanooga State beat Dyersburg State 6-3 as the double-elimination part of the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII softball tournament began Monday at Gallatin, Tenn., and top seed Walters State won 8-0 over Motlow State, which had beat Cleveland State 6-0 in a play-in game Sunday. Also winning Monday were fourth seed Jackson State, 9-5 over host Volunteer State, and third seed Columbia State, 10-1 over Roane. None of Monday's baseball scores were posted on the Vol State website by press time. Cleveland State was playing the last baseball game against Vol.
* Mercer University sophomore Robert Broom from Rising Fawn, Ga., and Gordon Lee High School was the Southern Conference baseball pitcher of the month for April. The right-handed reliever was 3-0 with a 1.64 earned run average and 29 strikeouts in 22 innings - nine appearances - in the Bears' 14-5 month. For the season Broom is 7-1 with a league-best .181 opponents' batting average and a 2.28 ERA, second best in the SoCon. He went 4 2/3 innings with eight strikeouts in an April win over VMI.
* Lee University got an invitation Monday to the NCAA South Regional softball tournament at Saint Leo, Fla., and is scheduled to play Thursday at 3 p.m. against Gulf South Conference rival Alabama-Huntsville, which won the regular-season title and was 2-1 against the Lady Flames (33-18). In its first NCAA regional, Lee will play North Alabama or Saint Leo on Friday. Six GSC teams are in the eight-team event.
Wrestling
* Three-time All-American Nick Brascetta has been promoted to assistant coach in the UTC wrestling program, head coach Heath Eslinger announced Monday. A former Virginia Tech wrestler with three Atlantic Coast Conference titles and a third-place finish at 157 pounds in the 2016 NCAA tournament, Brascetta spent the 2016-17 season as the Mocs' coordinator of student-athlete development. "He did a great job for us last year, but now he will be able to work directly with our student-athletes from training to competition," Eslinger said in a release.