The Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team evened its record at 2-2 with a 16-4 rout of Cumberlands on Tuesday in Athens. The Kentucky school scored three runs in the top of the first inning, but TWU scored six in the bottom half, six again in the third and four in the fifth. Alfred Cruz homered, singled, drove in four runs and scored three and Braden Mosley and Tristan Clarke had three RBIs each, Mosley with two doubles, while Adrian Gonzalez was 3-for-3 with three runs. Clarke and Dakota Phillips (two RBIs) homered.
» Oglethorpe University followed its season-opening home doubleheader sweep of Covenant College on Saturday with a 14-0 win at the Lookout Mountain school Tuesday. Adrian Celata was 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs, and four pitchers held the Scots to two singles.
Softball
» Berry College defeated visiting Covenant 15-0 and 9-1 in softball Tuesday. Brittany Tuttle was 6-for-7 with a triple, a double, five runs scored, four batted in and three stolen bases for Berry (2-0). Jami Johnson had the RBI for the Lady Scots (0-6).
» Freshman Morgan Crawford from Ridgeland High improved her Carson-Newman pitching record to 2-0 with no runs allowed as the Eagles shook off a 1-0 loss to beat Erskine 13-0 Tuesday at Due West, S.C. Crawford had a five-inning five-hitter, and senior Katie Pritchett from Heritage High scored two runs.
Track & Field
» Lee University had two second-place finishes among 14 top-eights last weekend at the Camel City Invitational indoor track and field meet in Winston-Salem, N.C. Division I teams comprised much of the field, but Division II Lee's Amy Carpenter was second in the women's 5000-meter run with teammates Audrey Smith, Becca Umbarger and Logan Hernandez fourth through sixth, and Josiah Brooks tied for second in the men's long jump, was fourth with his twin Justin Brooks fifth in the 200 and was eighth in the 60. Caleb Eagleson was fourth in the 5000, Evan Hansen tied for fifth in the unseeded high jump, Christian Noble was seventh in the 3000 and Daniel Surman was eighth in the unseeded pole vault. Lee's Emily Buwalda and Charlee Boxall were fourth and sixth in the women's mile run. Tuesday at the Queens Combined on the same track, Lee's Jordan Allison was 11th in the pentathlon, which was won by Samford's Selena Popp from Baylor School.
» Junior Kiana Davis from Ooltewah was part of the East Tennessee State quartet that finished second in the women's 4x400 relay last weekend in ETSU's Buccaneer Invitational, and she was fourth in the 60-meter dash. And ETSU freshman Camryn Bowman from Signal Mountain added a sixth-place shot put to her fourth in the weight throw. Carson-Newman freshman Tia Davis from Ooltewah, Kiana's sister, set school records in the 60 and 200 for the third time this season. They now are 7.91 and 26.20 seconds.
» Mississippi College from Division II won the eight-team men's competition and was second to Emory in the women's field at Sewanee's Tiger Indoor Meet last weekend. The host Tigers got a fifth-place men's long jump from Letherio Jones and a sixth in women's long jump from Haven Watson. Covenant's women were fifth with Lilly Smith, Hannah Samuels, Lindsey Beck and Alexandra May second, third, fifth and sixth in the 3000, Margaret Fitch third in the mile run and Michelann Settle fourth in the 800. Fitch, Hannah Hennigh, Smith and Samuels were second in the distance medley relay. The Covenant men produced a third and a fifth in the 3000 from Caleb Aikens and Matt Seitz; a fourth in the 4x400 from Tristan Dunlavy, William Wallace, Will Richardson and Micaiah Allison; and a DMR fifth from Matthew Tueller, Dunlavy, Jonathan George and Aikens. Wallace was sixth in the 800.
Basketball
» Lee's Michael McGuirk is the Gulf South men's basketball freshman of the week for the second time this season after scoring 12 and 23 points and totaling six 3-point baskets and nine rebounds in the Flames' last two games.