MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Middle Tennessee State junior pitcher Hunter Adkins from Red Bank High School pitched a nine-inning shutout in a 4-0 baseball win Friday against Ohio University. "I felt great out there," Adkins said after his first college shutout, an eight-hitter with no walks. "I was just trying to command the plate and not walk anybody. It was a pitcher's day with the wind blowing in, and I just tried ... to let my defense do the work." He was part of that defense with two putouts and seven assists.
Track & Field
• BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga junior Lucas Cotter followed his 3000-meter win Thursday with a second-place 14:29.31 in the 5000 Friday at the Southern Conference indoor track and field meet at the Birmingham CrossPlex, and the Lady Mocs' Amanda Sumner joined him with all-conference status by finishing third in the women's 5k in 17:05.22. Mocs seniors Chris Berry and Emmanuel Kirwa were sixth and seventh in the men's 5k. Sophomore Drew Austell was sixth in the 800, and miler Patrick O'Brien earned his second all-freshman honor. UTC was sixth in the men's team standings, ninth in the women's.
• The Chattanooga Jets' Chancis Jones and Alexis Reviere participated last weekend in the University of Kentucky High School Invitational indoor track and field meet -- Reviere as one of only five freshmen among the 36 800-meter participants -- and both already qualified in multiple events for the USATF National Youth Indoor Championships to be held March 10-11 in Normal, Ill. Jones qualified in the 17-18 girls' age division in the 55- and 200-meter sprints, long jump and triple jump, and Reviere is in the 15-16 girls' 400 and 800. Jets girls qualifying for the nationals with top-six finishes last Sunday at the USATF South Zone meet in Birmingham were Alexis Wilson, Kayla Hayes, Malika Reviere and Kianna Cooper in 13-14s and Aliya Cooper and Aisha Reviere in 7-8s. A day earlier at the AAU Birmingham Indoor Invitational, 5-year-old Jada Cooper won the 8-under 800-meter run in 3:18.34.
Basketball
• ATHENS, Tenn. -- No. 1 seed Tennessee Wesleyan, ranked 13th in NAIA Division II, won 60-51 Friday night in an Appalachian Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament semifinal against visiting Virginia Intermont and will host No. 22 Union College at 7 p.m. Monday for the championship. Union beat Milligan 76-68. Michelle Davis had 21 points, 11 rebounds and four steals, Heather Gibson scored 18 points and Leah Frazier had six assists for TWC (24-7). Wesleyan hosts Reinhardt in the AAC men's final tonight.
• BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- West Division top seed Trinity University ended Sewanee's basketball season with a 60-53 triumph Friday in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's tournament at Birmingham-Southern. Sewanee (13-13) was the fourth seed from the East. Zach Lambert scored 15 points for Trinity (18-8), while Brett Bouldin and Tyler Brown led Sewanee with 11 each and Lewis Affronti added 10. Brown grabbed 11 rebounds, and Valentino Bryant had five assists. It was a two-point game with 4:38 to go, and Trinity led just 56-53 after Bouldin hit his third 3-pointer with 48 seconds to go.
• Carson-Newman College sophomore Ish Sanders from Cleveland had a season-high 29 points plus four assists in the Eagles' 77-69 home win Wednesday night against Lincoln Memorial, which is ranked 12th in NCAA Division II. The Jefferson City school also won the women's game, 68-62, with Tyner graduate Lundyn Howard adding eight points to the 22 points and 18 rebounds by fellow senior Zoriah Williams. Howard had a go-ahead 3-pointer in the Lady Eagles' 21-5 closing surge. The Carson-Newman teams end their regular seasons today at Anderson.
• Georgia Northwestern point guard Mia Morris made the NJCAA Region XVII first team for the 2011-12 season, and Lady Bobcats teammates Jessica Williams and Emily Cole were second-team choices. The 5-foot-2 Morris, a sophomore from Rome High School, has averaged 10 points, six assists and three steals a game, and she set a record for the young program with six 3-pointers in a recent game against Toccoa Falls. She had 23 points, 10 assists and five steals against Free Will Baptist Bible College. The Lady Bobcats play Middle Georgia Tech today at 2 p.m. at Oxford, Ga., for the region title and advancement to the district round. The teams split their regular-season series.
• Tonight's high school basketball game at McCallie against Baylor is a sellout and no tickets will be available at the door. The game can be seen at tssaanetwork.com.