Area Sports Notes: Wesleyan wins, Bryan falls in NAIA baseball

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Tennessee Wesleyan routed Madonna from Michigan 11-2 Monday in the Kingsport (Tenn.) Bracket as the NAIA baseball tournament got underway at nine opening-round sites. Ninth-ranked Bryan College lost 10-5 to Northwestern Ohio at Williamsburg, Ky., despite being the top seed in that five-team bracket. Braden Mosley homered, singled and batted in two runs and Dakota Phillips was 2-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs for 19th-ranked TWU (38-19), which plays top-seeded Southeastern of Florida at 2:30 today. Alfred Cruz was 3-for-5 with a tw0-run double, Tristan Clarke also had two RBIs, Collin Ridout was 2-for-4 with two walks, two runs and an RBI and Tyler Halas scored three runs after an RBI double and two walks. Cole Bellair pitched the first 6 1/3 innings, giving up the two runs on seven hits. Against Bryan (40-16), fourth-seeded Northwestern Ohio (40-18) scored four runs in each of the third and fourth innings off Appalachian Athletic Conference pitcher of the year Stephen Chamblee. Trevor Behrent was 2-for-5 and got the Lions within 8-5 with a seventh-inning grand slam, while Jacob Justice was 2-for-3 and scored a run and Rodney Tennie scored two. They play again at 3 today.

Auto Racing

» John Labbous from Goodlettsville, Tenn., won the Super Stock class and $2,000 in Saturday night's drag racing at Brainerd Motorsports Park. Labbous won with a 6.81-second run on a 6.80 dial in his 1962 Plymouth. Kentucky resident Keith Baily was second with a 6.50 run on a 6.49 dial in a 1969 Dodge Dart on the eighth-mile strip. Ray Zumstein of Harrison was the No Box winner with a 6.82 run on a 6.82 dial in a 1965 Plymouth; his runner-up was David Bigham from Calhoun, Ga., with a 7.79 on a 7.78 in a 1969 Dart. In a pair of 1969 Plymouths, Marty Goldsmith and Teresa Kaiser from Ringgold were first and second in the Foot Brake class, Goldsmith with a 7.79 run on a 7.78 dial and Kaiser with a 6.94 on a 6.93 in a Roadrunner. Taylor Sweeton of Chattanooga had the low elapsed time and top speed of the meet, 4.52 seconds and 152.25 mph, in a Ronnie Warnock Chevrolet dragster. Sweeton had won the Super Pro class and $5,000 in a 72-car field on April 21 with a 4.62-second burst on a 4.62 dial.

Golf

» Lee University golfer Scott Odell from Claxton, Ga., was one of the eight who advanced from U.S. Open local qualifying Monday at Georgia National in McDonough to a sectional qualifier. Odell shot a 68, three strokes behind the day's co-leaders.

Lacrosse

» The Tennessee Scholastic Lacrosse Association's 2018 All-Division I first team includes McCallie midfielders Sterlyn Ardrey and Ellison Burt-Murray plus defenseman Cameron Henry, Nicholas Jessen (attack) and Sam Sawyer (face-off). McCallie's Eli Ensor, Will Greenman, Carter Henry, Ian McCauley and Zach Musial made the second team. The all-club Division II picks included Soddy-Daisy's Blake Morrow, Chance Humphreys, Justin Kaulfuss, Hunter Dinger and Ben Jenkins and FCA Chattanooga's Whitaker Grisham.

Softball

» Two Chattanooga men's slowpitch softball teams won their divisions in the unlimited-homers USSSA "Bombs Away" tournament this past weekend in Cartersville, Ga., each going 4-1 with an "if necessary" victory for the championship. Rock Fitness beat Team Freedom 25-20 for the C Division title with Connor Law, Taylor Bentley and Devin Kissinger pacing the offense through the weekend. The Athletic Shop/King's Men team won 28-18 in the D Division final and had seven players bat .740 or better for the tournament, including player-manager Garrett Reagan going 19-for-23 (.826) with a division-high 12 homers. Austin Parkison was 16-for-18 (.889), Kris Durham 15-for-19 (.789) with three homers, Trampas Brackett 18-for-23 (.783) with five homers, Chris Brown 12-for-16 (.750) with seven homers, Chris Sislo 15-for-20 (.750) with one homer and Tripp Hess 17-for-23 (.740) with five homers. Stephen Graham hit four homers.

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