The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's tennis team rallied from a 3-0 deficit in its first Southern Conference match of the season and edged East Tennessee State 4-3 on Saturday at Baylor School. It was the 5-4 Mocs' first victory in four matches and their first in the last five meetings with ETSU, and it ended on Tamri Chalaganidze's 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 win at No. 4 singles after she lost the first three games. Samantha Caswell and Emma Van Hee won together at No. 1 doubles and separately in singles, Caswell in a third-set tiebreaker at No. 1, and Caroline Hall at No. 3 notched the Mocs' first win, 6-1, 6-2.
-Host Sewanee defeated 11th-ranked Washington of St. Louis 6-3 in the ITA Division III indoor women's team national tournament Saturday at Baylor and will play No. 12 Washington & Lee for fifth place at 9 this morning at Baylor. The 17th-ranked Tigers (7-1) got singles wins from Clementina Davila, Christina Merchant, Catherine Owen, Haley Tucker and Darby Duval, and Merchant won with Ellie Czura in doubles. Emory will face Pomona-Pitzer for the championship at noon at McCallie.
Baseball
-Lee University lost 3-0 to visiting North Alabama in Gulf South Conference baseball Saturday. That dropped the Flames to 6-10, 2-2 in league play.
-Stephen Chamblee struck out 15 Truett McConnell batters in nine innings as Bryan College began its weekend series with a 7-0 win Friday night. Saturday, the Lions won 14-4 and 3-1, improving to 17-2, 3-0 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference. In support of Chamblee (4-0), Fernando Garcia and Wade Weinburger each was 2-for-3 with a home run, and they combined for five runs scored and three batted in. Trevor Behrent also homered and matched Garcia's two RBIs, and Lake Burris was 2-for-4.
-Tennessee Wesleyan won an AAC game 15-6 at St. Andrews, and game two was suspended. Grant Lang was 2-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs and Aloysious Cruz was 4-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs for the Bulldogs (9-8). Malik Stephens was 4-for-6, Alfred Cruz also had two RBIs and Tristan Clarke was 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI.
-Covenant College completed a USA South series sweep at Berea with 11-3 and 15-3 wins Saturday. Daniel Johnson and Joel Johnson were 2-for-4 with four and two RBIs and Donny Lewis, Trenton Nobles and C.J. Edmond each was 2-for-4 with an RBI - plus three, two and two runs scored - in the first game for the Scots (7-7, 5-1). Only one of the three runs off Drew Bradley was earned, and he and Adam Carver totaled eight strikeouts. Taylor Blowe had nine strikeouts and allowed only two hits in five innings of scoreless relief in the finale, while Tyler Moore was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs, Caleb Blowe was 3-for-5 with a triple and three runs, Daniel Johnson was 2-for-2 with two sacrifice flies and three RBIs, Joel Johnson was 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs and three runs and Jonah Carignan was 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
-Sewanee lost 5-3 and 4-0 to visiting Centre in Southern Athletic Association baseball. Jared Demkowicz was 2-for-4 and Max Murray batted in two runs in game one for the host Tigers (1-10, 0-5), and Trey Akins was 2-for-3 in the rematch. Sewanee's Trey Holland pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, with six strikeouts.
-Cleveland State began TCCAA play Saturday with two walk-off wins over visiting Roane State, 4-3 and 3-2. In the second game Roane broke up Collin Grove's seven-strikeout shutout with two runs, one earned, in the top of the eighth inning, but Greg Tye got the last out and then the win when Logan Peterson followed singles by Brandon Mason and Hunter Oliver with a three-run home run for the Cougars (10-5). Mason was 2-for-4 in that game and 2-for-3 with two runs scored in the opener, which ended when Noah Peterson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the seventh. Trey Martin was 3-for-4 with an RBI, Joey Roberson was 2-for-2 with one run, Logan Peterson was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Hooper Mills (3-0) pitched a complete game with 10 strikeouts.
Volleyball
-Janet Tate goes into her new career as head coach of the embryonic Chattanooga State volleyball program with a 489-69 middle school record from 1997 until Friday night, when her Loftis team added the progam's 15th HCAC tournament title to its 15th league championship with a 25-14, 25-20 defeat of Sale Creek. She was honored at the tournament for her 39 years in coaching, including a stint as HCAC president when she helped lead the charge to save middle school sports from elimination in the county.