Tennessee Wesleyan's Eric LaRue was the Appalachian Athletic Conference men's tennis coach of the year, TWC senior Ezequiel Gils was the player of the year, teammate Frederico Staksrud was the freshman of the year, and the 10-man all-conference team included those two Bulldogs and Milligan junior Jackson Lenoir from Chattanooga. Wesleyan freshman Kacka Saskova made the women's all-conference team.
Softball
* Former Chattanooga State player Haley Fagan of Trevecca Nazarene was the Tennessee Sports Writers Association college softball pitcher of the week, and Tennessee Temple's Raven Pope was the player of the week. Pope was 12-for-15 (.800) with three doubles and seven RBIs in four games for the Lady Crusaders, while Fagan won three of her four starts and allowed just 13 hits and four runs in 24 1/3 innings. Pope was 2-for-4 in each game as Temple (8-22) lost 4-3 and won 6-4 in eight innings at Wesleyan in Macon, Ga., on Tuesday. Cayley Shoemaker was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI in the first game and 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run in game two, when Taylor Tsai and Courtney Bonaiuto each was 2-for-3 and Carley Daniel pitched a six-hitter with one earned run allowed. Jillian McGill was 1-for-2 with two RBIs in the loss.
Baseball
* Bryan College senior Kenny Knudsen was chosen the AAC baseball pitcher of the week for the second time this season after his seven-inning three-hitter with five strikeouts in the Lions' 11-0 win Saturday against Union College. Hunter Tipton allowed three hits in seven innings and Jose Hernandez and Zeke Colby completed a four-hitter as Bryan beat Lee 8-0 on Tuesday in Cleveland. Chris Jeffries was 2-for-5 with a home run, a triple and two RBIs and Preston King was 1-for-2 with two runs and an RBI for Bryan (35-14). Luke Toms was 2-for-3 for Lee (25-17-1).
* K.C. Simons was 4-for-5 with two RBIs and Caleb Bloye was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs for Covenant College, but the Scots lost 9-5 in their makeup USA South baseball game Tuesday against Huntingdon. Jordan Freeman and Anthony Spivey each was 3-for-5 and combined for five RBIs for Huntingdon (24-15, 22-8). Alex Kerr was 2-for-4 and scored a run for Covenant (14-21, 10-14).
Track & Field
* Tennessee Wesleyan won both the men's and women's AAC track and field championships last week in Johnson City, Tenn., and TWC's Shawn Jakubowski was voted the coach of the year for both men and women. His men won the league meet with 86 points, 52 more than runner-up Reinhardt, and the Lady Bulldogs had 71 points compared to 56 for second-place Union College. TWC's Joseph Mullen was the most outstanding male athlete of the meet after winning the 1500-meter run and breaking the AAC 5000 record by almost 10 seconds with his 14:56.38 time, and the TWC women's 4x100 relay team of Justina Jones, Alexua Lyons, Kiana Froedden and Beth Sexton set a league record at 48.51 seconds. Other TWC individual men's winners were Avery Hubbard in the 100, Chad Whitehead in the 800 (also third in the 1500), Samuel Hawkins in the 10,000, Chaz Hawkins in the 110 and 400 hurdles and Arnold Mutuse in the 3000 steeplechase -- with Steven Dodd, Roderick Bowman, Cadarius Harris, Jake Morgenstern, Jacob Simmons, Dylan Watkins and Josh Parsons joining them as all-conference with second- or third-place finishes. Harris, Dodd, Morgenstern and Hubbard in the 4x100 relay and Chaz Hawkins, Morgenstern, Willie Thornhill and Simmons in the 4x400 also won. Bryan's Griffith Rutherford and Tyler Boone also were all-conference. Wesleyan women's winners were Robbiccaa Williams in the 5k, Leah Chance in the 10k, Hannah Rhodes in the 3000 steeple, Rachel Lawhorn in the shot put, discus and javelin and Janet Muchiri, Kelsey Marshall, Chloe Nance and Brooklyn Girdley in the 4x800. TWC's LeighAnn McAfee and Bryan's Sarah White (two seconds) also were all-conference.