Golfer Megan Woods and tennis player Michael Birnbaum received the Dayle May Awards as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's senior female and male athletes with the highest cumulative grade point averages. They were honored Thursday by Dayle May Jewelers as part of the UTC athletic department's Academc Night. Woods is from Spring Branch, Texas, and has a 4.0 GPA as an accounting major, and she has been a three-time WGCA All-America Scholar. She also has been a Southern Conference tournament medalist. Birnbaum, from Memphis, is a two-time Academic All-Southern Conference honoree and has a 3.75 GPA as a business analytics major.
Basketball
-The Sewanee men's basketball team overwhelmed visiting Oglethorpe in their Southern Athletic Association second-place showdown Friday night, 81-46, as Hunter Buescher was 7-of-10 on 3-point shots and scored 25 points. Also for the Tigers (13-9, 9-3), Luke Smith had 18 points and 10 assists and Adrian Thomas had 14 points and 17 rebounds. The Atlanta school won the women's game, 77-64, but Hannah McCormack had 22 points and seven rebounds in defeat and Bella Taylor had 12 points and matched Sue Kim with five assists.
-Will Crumly was 4-of-6 on 3-pointers in scoring 22 points off the bench, and starters Caleb Haynes and Bailey Spragg scored 21 and 20 as Covenant College won 92-80 over visiting Greensboro in USA South men's basketball Friday night. Haynes also had 11 rebounds and Spragg had seven plus seven assists and three steals for the Scots, and Jared Jauch had nine assists. Nick Palmer scored 12 points.
-The Covenant women won 86-58 at Wesleyan (Ga.) and now are 12-11, 7-6 in the USAS.
Baseball
-Bryan College improved its 2018 baseball record to 8-0 with 3-0 and 10-0 wins Thursday and 9-8 and 4-1 victories Friday against first-year program Indiana-Kokomo. Luke Henderson struck out eight in eight innings in Thursday's opener, Brandon Marklund registering the save, and then Stephen Chamblee gave up one hit with 14 strikeouts in six innings and Dalton Ross added two Ks in the seventh of the 10-0 game. Joseph Cuomo pitched a seven-inning five-hitter with eight Ks in the series finale, when Fernando Garcia and Rodney Tennie had two hits each for the Lions. Garcia had three in the 9-8 game, and Tyler Scott, Wade Weinburger, Trevor Behrent and Lake Burris had two apiece and Tucker Cain homered. Burris singled in the winning run in the eighth inning.
-Covenant earned its first baseball win of the season Friday, 8-3 at home against Emory, but then lost 10-4 despite a four-run first inning. The teams are not playing again today in Atlanta as scheduled. Caleb Bloye was 2-for-3 with a home run, a double and three RBIs and Trenton Nobles was 3-for-4 and scored three runs in the victory for the Scots (1-4), and Daniel Johnson also was 2-for-3. Matt Reitz got the pitching win with six strikeouts and three hits allowed in six innings.
-Sewanee's scheduled four baseball games this weekend at Louisiana College were canceled because of rainy weather. Sewanee (1-2) will host Spalding next Saturday and Sunday.
Fishing
-Wesley Strader of Spring City moved up to 25th with 12 pounds, 6 ounces of fish Friday and at 23-2 for two days is among the 51 making the cut for today's round in the Bassmaster Elite tournament on Lake Martin in Alabama. The top 12 after today will fish Sunday, and the 12th best total Friday was 24-7. Takahiro Omori of Texas leads with 32-11.