The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga finished second Tuesday to Furman in the Southern Conference women's golf tournament at Lexington, Ky., while the UTC men wound up fourth in their SoCon event at Pinehurst, N.C.
The women's tourney was cut from 54 holes to 36 because of Monday's rainout, and UTC shot a 296 to finish at 596, 10 strokes ahead of third-place East Tennessee State but 28 behind the nationally 10th-ranked Paladins. That continued a streak of nothing but top-two finishes in the league tournament since 2009 for the Mocs.
UTC sophomore Monica San Juan shot a 2-under-par 70 Tuesday and tied for fourth at 146, and Cristina Perez tied for sixth at 147 with Megan Woods placing eighth at 148. Perez closed with a 71, Woods with a 74. Holly Morgan tied for 15th at 155.
Furman's Natalie Srinivasan was the individual winner at 139.
East Tennessee State won its third consecutive SoCon men's title with a 54-hole 882 on Pinehurst No. 9. That included a 290 on Tuesday, when UTC shot 302 and finished at 900, 10 shots behind UNC Greensboro and two behind third-place Wofford.
The Mocs' Etienne Brault shot a 72 for a fourth-place 220, two shots out of first, and seniors Wes Gosselin and Brooks Thomas tied for 11th and 16th at 224 and 226 and made the all-conference team. Phillip Hickam and Stuart Thomas shot 232.
"We just dug ourselves too big a hole in the first round (308)," UTC coach Mark Guhne said in a school release. "We probably weren't patient enough today to get back into it. ETSU played really solid, so I think we started to press a little, then it got away from us."
Lee teams second
Lee University finished second in both Gulf South Conference tournaments Tuesday at Callaway Gardens, the 13th-ranked Lady Flames by 14 strokes to No. 16 West Georgia (903-917) with No. 12 defending champion West Floria third at 924 and the Lee men by 22 to No. 1 West Florida (851-873).
Lee junior Sam Burrus and freshman teammates Anne Hedegaard and Haverly Harrold tied for eighth individually in the women's tournament at 230, and junior Caroline Moore was 11th at 231 after a final-round 73 with freshman Annika Gino tied for 15th at 237.
Lee's Shea Sylvester was third in the men's tournament with a closing 71 and a 216 total, and Matt Johnson (70) and Corey Sheppard (73) tied for fourth at 219 and joined and four Argonauts on the all-tournament team. The Flames' Scott Odell (73) was 11th at 222, and Adam Wright (75) tied for 14th at 224.
Dalton State leads
A week after the NAIA's third-ranked Dalton State men breezed to the Southern States Athletic Conference championship at Arrowhead Country Club in Montgomery, Ala., the fifth-ranked DSC women have a three-stroke lead on William Carey (606-609) going into their SSAC final round on the same course.
The Roadrunners' Tia Teiniketo is tied for first individually at 145 for 36 holes, and Katie Dalton is tied for fourth at 152 with Haejin Choe tied for eighth at 156 and Caroline Griffin and Isabel Rijos sharing 11th at 157.
Teiniketo, who prepped at Baylor, Griffin, Rijos and Dalton made the all-conference team, and Teiniketo and Rijos made the all-freshman team. Rachel Rebne was DSC's representative on the Champions of Character team.