Area Sports Notes: UTC women in sixth place in Moon Golf Invitational

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Led by a second-round 67 from Monica San Juan and a first-round 69 from Megan Woods, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf team began the 2018 part of its schedule Monday with a sixth-place day at the Moon Golf Invitational at Duran Golf Club in Melbourne, Fla. The Mocs totaled 591 for 36 holes, with San Juan in a four-way tie for second individually at 141 and Woods eighth at 144. Cristina Perez is at 152, Maddy McDaniel at 155. Furman leads the 13-team field at 575. San Juan's 5-under-par round tied for second best in program history, bettered only by Christine Wolf's 66 in 2011.

» Lee University's women golfers lead the Converse College Invitational at 304 after the first round Monday at Roebuck, S.C.

» The NAIA's No. 2-ranked Dalton State golf teams both are in second place after Monday's round in the Georgetown College tournament at St. Augustine, Fla. The DSC men are at 289, 10 shots behind fifth-ranked Coastal Georgia, with P.J. Shields tied for second individually at 69 and Sport Allmond and Dalton Johnson also in the top 13 at 72 and 73. S.M. Lee and Ben Rebne are tied for 20th at 75. The Lady Roadrunners shot 314, five more than No. 6 USC-Beaufort, with Caroline Griffin tied for fourth at 76, Isabel Rijos seventh at 77 and Tia Teiniketo 15th at 79.

Basketball

» Reinhardt University defeated Bryan College 78-62 in their Appalachian Athletic Conference playoff Monday night at Tennessee Wesleyan for the women's basketball regular-season championship. The Eagles earned one of the league's two berths in the NCAA Division II tournament. Bryan can still get there by winning the AAC tournament or meeting Reinhardt in the final. Jada Hubbard from Heritage High School scored 27 points Monday for Reinhardt, while Rebecca Cheeks from Sonoraville had 21 plus 10 rebounds and Calhoun resident JessAnn Nix had 20 points on 4-of-5 3-point shooting and seven rebounds. Deandra Luna led the Lady Lions with 16 points, and Shayla Ludy, Karli Combs, Amber Levi and Tristan McClellan added 13, 11, 10 and 10. Reinhardt out-rebounded them 42-27 and took control with a 46-28 third quarter.

» Dalton State's Carnilious Simmons was honored Monday for the third time in six weeks as the Southern States Athletic Conference men's basketball player of the week, and teammate Reed Dungan was announced as one of the four participants in the 3-point-shooting contest March 17 at the NAIA Division I tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Dungan has made 44.7 percent (68) of his 3-point tries this season. In two SSAC wins last week for the 15th-ranked Roadrunners, Simmons averaged 16 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.5 steals.

» Covenant College freshman forward Will Crumly is the USA South men's basketball rookie of the week for the third time this season after scoring 18 and 12 points and totaling 10 rebounds and three assists in two games last week. He's avearging nine points a game for the season and has shot 51.8 percent from the field.

Tennis

» Covenant seniors Aly Hall and Matthew Harvie are the USA South tennis players of the week for Feb. 12-18. Each went 2-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles in that span. Hall is 3-1 in singles and 3-1 in doubles this semester, and Harvie now has 39 singles victories and 38 doubles wins in dual matches for his Covenant career.

Baseball

» The Covenant baseball team held off Elmira 4-3 in Monday's game moved to the LakePoint Complex in Emerson, Ga., because of wet field conditions and fog on Lookout Mountain. Joel Johnson, Caleb Bloye and Alex Gonzalez each was 2-for-4 and scored a run for the Scots (2-5), Johnson with a triple and two RBIs and Gonzalez with his first collegiate home run, and six Covenant pitchers totaled eight strikeouts and seven hits allowed. Elmira failed in an attempt to score the tying run on a wild pitch in the ninth inning.

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