Tony IngleRetired Dalton State College coach Tony Ingle will receive the 2019 Guardians of the Game Award for Advocacy from the National Association of Basketball Coaches at an evening program April 7 in the main auditorium of the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Guardians of the Game Pillar Awards are for education, leadership and service as well as advocacy - the four core values of the NABC. Ingle is a Dalton native who helped Dalton Junior College reach the national tournament as a player and later coached Kennesaw State to an NCAA Division II national title and DSC to an NAIA Division I title, as highlights of a 17-year, 319-235 career that included NCAA Division I. He was 134-33 in building the DSC program from scratch, and the Roadrunners won their national championship in their second season and first with NAIA postseason eligibility. Ingle also is an author and motivational speaker and the bishop of the Dalton ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
» McCallie School senior Anthony Watkins has been chosen to play Saturday in the Basketball Coaches Association of Tennessee All-Star Games at Blackman High School in Murfreesboro. The 10th annual event will include four boys' teams and four girls' teams with each team playing twice, according to a McCallie release. Watkins made the Division II-AA East/Middle all-region team and was second on the Blue Tornado this past season in scoring, field-goal percentage and blocked shots.
Wrestling
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's four wrestlers at the NCAA Division I tournament in Pittsburgh all lost twice Thursday - Alonzo Allen by technical fall and Chris Debien by fall against top-seven seeds and Tanner Smith and Rodney Jones by decisions in the first round. Smith rallied in his first consolation match and won 12-7.
Tennis
» Sewanee sophomore Catherine Owen was selected the Southern Athletic Association women's tennis player of the week for her two doubles wins with Ellie Czura and especially her defeat of Pomona-Pitzer's nationally fifth-ranked singles player. Owen prevailed 7-6, 6-7, 1 -0 (4).
Baseball
» Lee University won 5-4 Wednesday night at Young Harris College on Landon Silver's RBI single in the top of the 10th inning and Thomas Zazzaro's 3-up-3-down pitching in the bottom half. Michael Hendricks (3-3) escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth with three strikeouts. Silver was 2-for-4 and Zazzaro was 1-for-2 with three walks and two runs scored for the Flames (12-15).
» Sewanee rebounded from its 21-17 loss Wednesday at Hanover with a 5-4 win over the Indiana team Thursday. The Tigers (14-8) scored three unearned runs in the ninth inning, the last two on a single by Chris McNulty, who homered in the eighth. Tyler Dunbar was 2-for-4 and Jack Galanek 2-for-5 with an RBI for Sewanee.
Softball
» Covenant College lost 8-0 and 11-7 to visiting Emory (10-4) in Division III competition Thursday. The Lady Scots (7-10) got only two hits in the first game, but in the rematch Shelby Ralston was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored, Madyson Gibbins was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run and Faith Manning and Jada Allmon each scored twice.
» Sewanee lost 6-5 and 13-6 to Maine-Presque Isle at Myrtle Beach, but Peri Prestwood was 3-for-4 with a two-run triple and Taylor Wagner added a two-run single for the Lady Tigers (2-18) in the first game and Kendell Goodrum was 3-for-4 with Wagner, Charlsey Shirey and Katie Roth each 2-for-4 in game two. Roth had a two-RBI double. The Owls (5-3) broke a 4-4 tie with an eight-run sixth inning.
» Cleveland State won 9-1 and 9-6 over West Georgia Tech on Wednesday. Hailey Galvan homered and drove in four runs and Hannah Turner also homered in support of Kaitlyn Pickens' pitching in the first game, and Aubrie Bowman homered and Leslie Harris had three hits in game two.
Lacrosse
» The Sewanee men pulled out a 12-11 win Thursday over Springfield at Colorado College on Will Pratt's overtime goal from a Cameron Acuff assist. That was Pratt's third goal of the match, all in a span of 12:08, and Thomas Lynde matched him with three goals and an assist. Hayden Hunt led the Tigers (6-3) with four goals, and Ryan Stubits had 10 ground balls, two assists and 15-of-26 success on face-offs. Tal Wharton made 13 saves.