Former Ooltewah and Lee University golfer Sam Bedwell won a professional event for the first time Thursday. Bedwell shot a 5-under-par 139 for two rounds in the Bradshaw Farm Classic at Woodstock, Ga., which is a part of the Peach State Professional Tour. He beat three golfers by one stroke at The Club at Bradshaw Farm.
Baseball
• The Lee University baseball season ended late Wednesday night in Lewiston, Idaho, with an 8-4 loss to fellow Southern States Athletic Conference member Faulkner University in the semifinals of the NAIA World Series. That was the last competition for Lee as an NAIA school. It will become an NCAA Division II provisional member this summer. Faulkner (55-11), the top seed at Lewiston, scored four runs in the sixth inning and another four in the eighth against the second-seeded Flames (51-12), with whom it shared the SSAC tournament title. Zac Colby was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs for the Eagles, who went on to face host Lewis-Clark State for the championship, while Sergio Sanchez was 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored and Dauris Holguin hit a two-run double. Lee had only five hits off Julian Esquibel (11-2), who struck out eight batters. Brandon Rader's home run gave the Flames a 1-0 lead in the third inning, and Brady Renner was 2-for-4 with a double and scored twice. Danny Canela had a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth.
• The Chattanooga Baseball Club 14-under team is in the Elite Baseball Classic in Knoxville this weekend after winning the Battlefield Bash last weekend. The CBC 14s won 15-4 over Fury Blue, 8-5 over the Berkeley Red Sox from Norcross, Ga., 5-2 over the Dalton Hurricanes and 8-5 over Fury Black in the championship game. Carson McKoon pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits, in the final, but Tyler Blum got the win in relief with a save from Cruz Bautista. Fury Black's Jordan Gorman struck out six in five innings. Wilson Maclellan and Tanner Nance combined to pitch a two-hitter for CBC against the Hurricanes, and those two and Tyler Holloway combined on a four-hitter against Fury Blue. McKoon, Bautista and Blum scattered eight Red Sox hits. Jimmy Wright was 6-for-11 and Westin Ray was 7-for-13 at the plate in the tournament for CBC, and Nance was 5-for-11 while Garrett Owen went 5-for-12.
Softball
• The NAIA softball Scholar-Athletes for 2013 included Lee's Kelli Crawford and Hannah Hight; Bryan College's Jill Davis, Kateline Vaughn and Shanna Chappell; and Tennessee Wesleyan's Brooke Ward, Courtney Gobble, Lindsey Arndts and Stacie Nelson. That distinction requires being a junior or beyond academically with a grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Crawford, Davis, Vaughn, Ward, Gobble and Arndts came from Chattanooga-area high schools.