The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team takes a 25-8 overall record, 6-0 Southern Conference mark and eight-game winning streak into a doubleheader today at Furman, followed by a single game Sunday in Greenville, S.C. The first game today has been pushed back to 3 p.m. from the original schedule and will be televised by the American Sports Network (Comcast 208, EPB 169). A win in either game would give UTC's Frank Reed his 1,000th as a college coach, counting a 476-87 record in establishing Chattanooga State's program, and he is 40-4 all-time against the Paladins (19-19, 2-4). Samford (27-14, 8-1) is second in the SoCon, with Mercer (28-15, 4-2) third.
* The 11th-ranked Tennessee softball team lost 5-1 to No. 1 LSU in the opener Friday night of their SEC weekend series in Knoxville. Girls Preparatory School graduate Tory Lewis was 1-for-4 as the Tennessee leadoff batter. Lexi Overstreet had the RBI hit for the Lady Vols (29-10, 7-6). Sahvanna Jaquish was 2-for-3 with two home runs and four RBIs and Kellsi Kloss also homered for LSU (37-4, 10-3).
* Averett College, ranked 16th in NCAA Division III, defeated Covenant 3-0 and 8-4 in a USA South softball doubleheader Friday at Danville, Va., dropping the Lady Scots to 9-21 overall and 2-18 in the league. Averett is 30-1-1, 20-1. Madison Quirk had two of Covenant's four hits in the first game, and Kendall Whann and Kasey Hart each drove in a run and scored one in game two. Tennessee Temple's scheduled games at Milligan were called off.
Baseball
* Pitcher Micah Mabe allowed seven hits and no earned runs in nine innings as Covenant defeated Greensboro College 8-1 in the opener Friday of their weekend USA South baseball series on Lookout Mountain. Z Arima and Scott Gillespie each was 2-for-4 with a home run and they combined for five RBIs for the Scots (12-17, 8-11), and Alex Kerr was 3-for-4 and scored a run. No Greensboro player had multiple hits.
* The Tennessee Temple baseball team used a seven-run ninth inning to win 8-7 on Friday at Berea College in the opener of their weekend series. The Crusaders (16-8) had only five hits in the game while Hunter Giles was the winning pitcher despite giving up 12 hits, though only three earned runs. He struck out 14 batters in the nine innings. Micah Wyatt and Trey Hill each batted in two runs for Temple, Wyatt also scoring two.
* Tennessee Wesleyan's Wardy Polanco is the reigning Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the week after batting 9-for-14 with two homers, a triple, two doubles, two stolen bases, 10 RBIs and five runs scored in four games, all wins. The junior shortstop leads the league with 54 hits and 43 runs and has a .419 batting average, 11 homers and 41 RBIs. The NAIA's 10th-ranked Bulldogs host Milligan in a three-game series today and Sunday.
Basketball
* Southeast Whitfield senior Cricket Wyatt has signed papers to join the Georgia Northwestern Technical College women's basketball team for the 2015-16 school year. She plans to study nursing. The 5-foot-9 Wyatt averaged 14.1 points a game as a junior and averaged 9.3 this past season despite an injured knee that she expects to be well by the new season. Southeast won 47 games the past three years, going 14-11 in 2014-15. "She can shoot really well, she understands the game and she loves to win," Southeast coach Mike Durham said in an GNTC release. Lady Bobcats coach David Stephenson noted that Wyatt was the first former Lady Raider to sign with GNTC, "and she really fits the mold of what I've been wanting. ... She's the prototype of the women's player we're trying to get here." He mentioned her 3.1 grade point average, her "great character" and her all-around ability on the court.
Track & Field
* The UTC track and field teams will compete today in the Beynon Sports Surfaces Catamount Classic at Cullowhee, N.C. The meet hosted by Western Carolina University begins at 12:10 p.m., and the first Mocs will take off at 12:25 in the women's 1500-meter run.
* Sewanee's Amy Lee was the Southern Athletic Association women's track athlete of the week for her fifth-place finish in the 1500-meter run at the Centre Invitational. Her time of 5:03.35 was the fourth best in the SAA this year.
Lacrosse
* The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used an 8-0 surge in the second half to win 15-7 in an SAA match Friday night at Hendrix. Robbie Berndt had five goals and two assists and Baylor Koch and George Bukawyn scored three goals apiece for Sewanee (8-3, 4-1), which is in a three-way tie for first but has a slight goals-allowed margin over Berry and Centre going into Sunday's regular-season finale at Rhodes.