The Lee University men rallied from seven strokes behind Missouri-St. Louis to force a playoff and then won it in the University Golf Classic hosted Monday and Tuesday by North Alabama at Muscle Shoals. Both teams totaled 873 for 54 holes, Lee with a 288 Tuesday as Tyler Davis was the medalist with a 213. The Flames' Shea Sylvester was sixth at 219, Peyton Sliger and Corey Sheppard shared 10th place at 223 and Adam Wright tied for 14th at 225 with a closing 71. "This is the first time we've been involved in a team playoff, and it was quite exciting," Lee coach John Maupin said. "All our guys handled the pressure of the playoff well."
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf team shot the fifth best round in program history, a 2-under-par 286, and tied for 11th at 906 Tuesday in the 17-team Briar's Creek Invitational at Johns Island, S.C. Florida won at 866. UTC's Agathe Sauzon tied for 14th at 220 with a third-round 70. Emily McLennan shot 69 and finished at 228, with Megan Woods at 229 and Cris Perez at 230.
Baseball
* Bryan College's Chris Jeffries was 3-for-5 with two two-run home runs in a 9-8 baseball win Monday at home against Cumberland. His second homer put the Lions ahead in the bottom of the eighth inning. Cody Rhinehart was 2-for-4 and scored a run for Bryan (24-8), which followed up with an 11-inning 5-1 Appalachian Athletic Conference victory Tuesday against Truett-McConnell as Langston Calhoun went 3-for-4 and Preston King homered and doubled, each driving in two runs. Chad Burrows and three relievers combined to pitch a six-hitter with nine strikeouts. Bryan senior Kenny Knudsen was the AAC pitcher of the week after notching two wins with a 1.38 earned run average, including a two-hit, eight-strikeout shutout of nationally ranked Tennessee Wesleyan. That made him 8-0 -- the NAIA high for wins -- and a 0.69 ERA.
* The Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team won 6-1 and 7-5 at the University of the Cumberlands on Tuesday and is 22-7.
* Tennessee Temple won 15-7 and lost 9-4 in baseball Tuesday at Reinhardt. Temple is 9-5.
* Sewanee's Jackson Cooper was the Southern Athletic Association baseball player of the week after batting .462 with a .517 on-base percentage in the Tigers' 4-3 trip to Florida. He had four doubles among his 12 hits, batted in 11 runs and scored seven. His team lost 16-10 to Hiwassee on Tuesday, though, as Alex Huddleston, Dalton Harrelson and Randall Coley combined for 11 hits, four homers, 10 RBIs (four each for the H's) and eight runs for the 9-11 visitors. Cooper and Tyler Minkkinen each had three hits and three RBIs for Sewanee (8-11).
Softball
* Bryan's Becca Zimmerman was the AAC sofball player of the week after going 12-for-20 in six games that included five wins. She had a home run, a triple, three doubles and seven RBIs, and she leads the AAC with a .509 batting average. She has two homers and 18 RBIs for the season.
* Covenant College beat Wesleyan (Ga.) twice in softball Tuesday, 11-10 on a walk-off single by Shannon Schmitt and 13-8. Kendall Whann was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored in the first game, when Jami Johnson doubled twice and drove in three runs and Kaitlyn Sirmons batted in two for Covenant (9-7). In game two, Morgan Lane was 4-for-5 with four RBIs, Joni and Jami Johnson went a combined 5-for-7 with five doubles, four RBIs and five runs and Madison Quirk and Jordan Brett each had an extra-base hit, a single and two RBIs.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee's Ellie Murphy was selected as the SAA women's lacrosse offensive player of the week for matches through Sunday, and Sewanee's Hal Smith was the men's defensive honoree. He won 17 of 19 faceoffs against DePauw on Saturday. Murphy had 11 goals and 14 assists in four wins for the female Tigers, with an .813 shots-on-goal percentage.
Tennis
* Arts & Sciences graduate Jackson Lenoir won all four of his tennis matches for Milligan College on Sunday, 6-2, 6-2 in singles against both Bluefield and UVA-Wise and 8-2 and 8-1 in doubles.