The 16th-ranked Chattanooga State softball team is 9-1 after three wins Saturday in Longwood, Florida, including a 1-0 defeat of No. 2 Chipola in which Brooke Parrott pitched a three-hitter with 10 strikeouts and Haley Smith hit a walk-off double. Parrott also got the win with four innings of relief in an eight-inning 4-2 defeat of Broward, when Ashlyn Holland was 3-for-4 with the winning two-run home run, Breanna Vinson was 2-for-4 with the other two RBIs and Katie Cheeseman was 2-for-2 with a walk. In between, the Lady Tigers beat Florida State-Jacksonville 8-0 in five innings as Abby Wall threw a four-hitter, Madison Crabtree was 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs, Smith doubled and singled with two RBIs and Holland was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
» Sewanee totaled 15 hits but lost 10-1 and 6-4 Saturday at Agnes Scott. Rachel Hoffman had two hits in each loss for the Tigers, including the RBI single in game one, and Taylor Wagner was 2-for-4 with an RBI double in game two. Sewanee will face Covenant in a home-opening doubleheader Wednesday.
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (8-1) is hosting Eastern Kentucky in a doubleheader today at Jim Frost Stadium, starting at 1:30 p.m., and a single game Monday at noon.
Basketball
» Sewanee’s Sue Kim had just enough assists, three, in Friday’s season-ending loss to Oglethorpe to break the program’s career record, and fellow senior Bella Taylor moved into second place in career points. With 113 assists this season, Kim wound up with 372, one more than Kayla Goodwin’s previous record from 1999 to 2002. Taylor, who missed eight games in her final season with an injury, finished her Tigers career with 1,593 points, dropping Sophie Brawner (1979-83) to third all-time with 1,589. Kim Valek (1984-87) has the Sewanee women’s record with 1,777 and also has the most rebounds, 1,083.
» The third-seeded Sewanee men will be playing host Centre today for the Southern Athletic Association tournament title after beating No. 2 seed Berry 70-63 on Saturday. Luke Smith scored 40 points with 8-of-11 3-point shooting and also had eight rebounds for the Tigers (21-6), who jumped ahead 22-9 and led by 20 with 10:30 left to play but by only four with nearly a minute to go. Elijah Hirsh had 24 points and 11 rebounds for Berry (19-7).
» Bryan College rallied from a 10-point deficit after one quarter to top No. 3 seed Tennessee Wesleyan University 75-71 in Kingsport for the Dayton school’s third straight Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s tournament championship and 30th consecutive win this season. Tourney MVP Deandra Luna had 12 points, seven rebounds, six assists and three steals for the Lady Lions (31-1) and was joined as all-tournament by teammates Shayla Ludy and Amber Levi, TWU’s Hunter Simpson and Jacobi Lynn, Reinhardt’s Bethany Headrick from Ringgold, Georgia, and Milligan’s Sarah Robinson. Ludy scored 15 points and Levi added 12 and matched To’Nesha Allison with eight rebounds in the final, when Simpson scored 26 and Lynn had 15 for TWU (22-9).
» Despite 23 points by Colton Blevins and 20 with 6-of-8 3-point shooting and 10 rebounds for Cody Jones, the Lee men lost 77-74 in Gulf South Conference play at West Georgia. Lindsey Roddy scored 19 points and Abby Bertram and Haley Schubert added 14 and 12 in the Lady Flames’ 74-69 loss. Now 21-6, 15-4 in GSC games, they led 51-39 late in the third quarter but lost the lead and never regained it in the final 6:29. The West Georgia women are 15-10, 10-9.
» Dalton State College ended its regular season with an 80-71 Southern States Athletic Conference home loss to 15th-ranked William Carey. Sean Chislom scored 15 points and Elijah Staley had 14 plus 11 rebounds for DSC (18-12, 13-9), while Sean Cranney contributed 13 points and five assists and Randy Bell tallied 12 points.
» Michaela Bennifield had 29 points and six steals as the Cleveland State women won 95-91 in overtime at Southwest Tennessee in their regular-season finale. Jordan Smith scored 17 and Hannah Phillips and Charisma Barner had 14 apiece. Bennefield hit the 3 that sent the TCCAA game to overtime, and Smith made the late-OT free throws that sealed the victory. Delaino Walker scored 20 in the Cleveland State men’s 63-57 loss.
Track & Field
» The first-day highlight for the UTC women’s track and field team Saturday in the Southern Conference indoor meet at Lexington, Virginia, was a third-place finish in the distance medley relay for Ashlynd Broling, Katie Coker, Abby Bateman and Nicole Buehrle. The Mocs’ Emily Poole was seventh in the 3000-meter run, and Kennedy Thomson qualified third for Sunday’s mile final and sixth for the 800 final.
Baseball
» Bryan lost 5-4 and won 6-4 in baseball Friday against Talladega College in Emerson, Georgia. The teams took turns taking 5-0 leads and holding on. Parker Cosby was 2-for-3 in the loss for Bryan (10-4) and hit an RBI single ahead of Marcus Catalano’s three-run home run in the sixth inning. Catalano was 1-for-1 in that game and 1-for-2 with two runs scored in the Lions’ win, when Lake Burris hit his eighth homer of the season and David Scoggins was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run.
Lacrosse
» Dariana Blanton and Becca Broadwick each scored four goals as the Lee women’s lacrosse team routed Southern Wesleyan (0-4) on Saturday, 20-1. It was 14-0 at halftime, when Lee (2-0) had a 24-2 shots advantage. Emma Hill had three goals and three assists, Shayna Ryan and Kaylyn Dillon also scored three times each and Rachael Giles had two goals and two assists.
» The Sewanee men lost 17-7 in their season opener Friday at 13th-ranked Roanoke but got four goals from Daniel Burnum and 13 saves from Bryce Womack. The Tigers’ Ryan Stubits won 19 of 28 face-offs and collected 14 ground balls.