Wesley Cash of Chattanooga earned his 20th USTA category 1 age-group national championship Sunday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and it held special meaning beyond that milestone and the fact it was the 10th doubles title together for him and Mark Vines of Naples, Fla. As the No. 2 seeds in the Men's 60s hard-court nationals, they won six matches and avenged last year's lone loss - in the same tournament - with a 6-2, 6-3 finals win over top-seeded Californians Doug Ditmer and Randy Berg. Cash and Vines broke their serve five times. "That takes away a thorn in my side from last year," Cash said Monday. "We changed our game against them, and it worked."
» Covenant College senior Annie DeLuca was selected the USA South women's tennis player of the week for matches of April 2-8. She moved up to No. 1 singles and went 2-0 - including a 6-0, 6-0 win – and also was 2-0 at No. 1 doubles with Esther Eddy. DeLuca is 13-4 in singles. The No. 3 seed from the USAS West in the conference women's tournament, Covenant (9-8, 4-2) faces East No. 2 North Carolina Wesleyan at 10 a.m. Friday at LaGrange, Ga. Covenant's men are seeded first in the West and have a bye into Saturday's semifinals.
Golf
» Senior Cristina Perez made the first competition hole-in-one in University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf history Monday at the Brickyard Collegiate at Macon, Ga., but her team totaled 309 and is tied for seventh at 611 with one round to go. Vanderbilt leads at 579. Perez aced the 115-yard fifth hole with a 9-iron and is at 152, two shots behind 19th-place teammate Monica San Juan, with Megan Woods at 153, Maddy McDanel at 157 and Holly Morgan at 158.
» The UTC men are tied for sixth with Mercer at 588 (301-287) after Monday's 36 holes in the 14-team Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate at Richland Country Club in Nashville. Rice leads at 571. The Mocs' Lake Johnson shot a second-round 67 and is tied for 12th at 144, while Andrew Weathers is 17th at 146 and Luke Long shares 18th at 147. Will Porter is at 151.
» Sewanee's Meghan Symonds was the medalist at 151 and her team was third at 640 out of 12 schools in the Sewanee Spring Invitational women's tournament Sunday and Monday at Greystone in Dickson, Tenn. The Tigers trailed only Southern Athletic Association rivals Berry (635) and Oglethorpe (636), as Natalie Javadi tied for 27th at 165 and Mary Elizabeth Benton shot 166. It was Symonds' second win this year.
Softball
» The Chattanooga State softball team is 38-8, 23-1 in TCCAA play, after winning 1-0 and 3-2 Sunday and 11-2 and 10-5 in eight innings Monday at Columbia State. The win streak is 26 for the 16th-ranked Lady Tigers. Kaleigh Wynne pitched a four-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and Jenna Edwards threw a three-hitter with one earned run Sunday, and Kiley Longmire had the RBI in game one and a two-run home run in game two. Wynne got both pitching wins in relief Monday, although she started the finale (getting the first nine and last four outs), and was 2-for-3 with a homer, a triple and six RBIs in game one and 3-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs in game two, when Aimie Davidson was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run. Katie Cheeseman was 5-for-9 with four runs and an RBI in Monday's games, and Madison Tidmore was 2-for-4 and scored three runs in the first one. Wynne's triple would have been a grand slam except she missed home plate.
Baseball
» Sewanee senior left-hander Drew Mancuso was chosen the SAA baseball pitcher of the week for his four-hit, nine-strikeout, 1-0 win Saturday at Millsaps. He's on an 18-inning scoreless streak and for the season has a 3.27 earned run average, fourth best in the SAA. He's also batting .362 with 16 RBIs after going 7-for-15 with two doubles and four RBIs last week.
» Cleveland State beat the Bryan junior varsity 12-0 and 8-1 on the road Monday and is 29-14 with seven wins in a row. Jackson Etter (7-0) struck out seven and allowed one hit in his four innings pitched in the five-inning first game, when Rhett Baldwin was 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs, Hunter Oliver was 2-for-3 with a triple, three runs scored and two driven in and Joey Roberson and Cameron Payne homered with three and two RBIs. Noah Peterson was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored in game two, while Roberson was 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBIs and Logan Peterson was 2-for-3 with two walks and two runs.