Erin Walsh closed out her Lee University women's basketball career not only as the sixth-leading scorer in program history but also as a first-team NCAA Division II Academic All-America selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America. She scored 1,824 points for the Lady Flames, who reached the second round of the national tournament last week, and holds a cumulative 4.0 grade point average as a health science major.
» Sewanee junior guard Bella Taylor from Sparta, Tenn., was selected to the D3hoops.com NCAA Division III All-South Region women's second team, and Sewanee sophomore forward Adrian Thomas from Chattanooga made the men's all-region third team. Chattanoogan Juliette Harp of Huntingdon joined Taylor on the second team. The all-region honors were announced Tuesday. Taylor led the Southern Athletic Association with 21 points per game this season and set program records of 526 points in a season and 40 in a game. Harp averaged 18.2 points, 13.7 rebounds and 2.2 blocked shots per game and was first-team all-conference in the USA South. Thomas, the SAA men's player of the year, averaged 18.4 points and a league-high 9.6 rebounds and shot 57.1 percent from the field.
Baseball
» No. 2-ranked Georgia Gwinnett won 8-3 at No. 11 Bryan in NAIA baseball Tuesday, but Trevor Behrent was 2-for-4 with a home run and scored also on a homer by Lake Burris for the host Lions (20-4).
» Philip Sieli pitched a no-hitter into the sixth inning and allowed two hits in 7 1/3 as Tennessee Wesleyan won 1-0 at Cumberland, which heads the NAIA's "others receiving votes." Sid Kumar had a pinch-hit RBI double in the eighth for TWU (14-11), which had only five hits in ending a 10-game winning streak for the Phoenix (16-6). Tyler Halas was 2-for-4 for the Bulldogs, and Daniel Tolano got the last five outs for the save.
» Behind eight innings of three-hit pitching from Justin Lavender, Sewanee beat visiting Covenant 8-0 in Division III baseball Tuesday. Drew Mancuso, who pitched the ninth, was 3-for-5 with two doubles and an RBI for the Tigers (5-12), while Jared Demkowicz was 2-for-3 with a homer and three runs scored and Trey Akins doubled twice, scored two runs and batted in one. Caleb Bloye was 2-for-4 for the Scots (7-12), who will host Averett in a doubleheader Thursday starting at noon and a single game Friday at 3 p.m.
Golf
» The Lee men's golf team finished 16th out of 18 teams at 914 in Valdosta State's Southern Collegiate tournament, but the Flames' Scott Odell closed with a 69 Tuesday and was 23rd individually at 5-over-par 221. Evan Spence and Dylan Lillard had final-round 76s. Newberry was the team winner at 868.
» Dalton State sophomores Tia Teiniketo and S.M. Lee were chosen the Southern States Athletic Conference golfers of the week. Teiniketo, a Baylor School graduate, was the medalist in the women's team's victory in the Bellevue Spring Break Classic. Lee, the male honoree, was third in the Sand Shark Classic.
» Tennessee Wesleyan freshman Danielle Bates from Benton, Tenn., is the first Appalachian Athletic Conference women's golfer of the week in 2018. She was the medalist as the Lady Bulldogs won the rain-shortened Cavalier Spring Invitational.
Lacrosse
» TWU sophomore Mikayla Virden was chosen the AAC women's lacrosse player of the week after scoring 13 goals and adding an assist in three matches. She had six goals and the assist in a 16-11 win over Reinhardt.
Softball
» Donald "Pop" Howard, father of Baylor School softball coach Kelli Smith, died Monday at the age of 79. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today and 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday at Hamilton Funeral Home, where the funeral service will begin at 1.
» Piedmont beat visiting Covenant 8-0 and 2-1 in USA South softball Tuesday. Madyson Gibbins was 2-for-2 with the RBI and Shannon Schmitt was 2-for-3 with a double in the second game for Covenant (12-14, 4-4).