Dalton residents Rob Neal and Joey Westmoreland tied for second in the Georgia Four Ball Tournament at Jekyll Island Golf Club with a 54-hole total of 7-under-par 209 capped by a 1-over 73 on Sunday. Neal and Westmoreland, who shared first place in the championship flight with Conyers’ Stephen Hall and Covington’s Marshall Moore, tied two other teams for second overall, winding up a stroke behind Waynesboro’s Chris Mangieri and Daniel Mobley, who closed with a 70 in flight one. Clay Hill of Dalton and Bryan Deems of Chatsworth closed with a 72 and tied for fourth in the championship flight at 214, while Macon’s Tre Lamb – a former Calhoun resident – and Smyrna’s Cal Patterson closed with a 72 and finished tied for ninth at 220 with Greg Brock of Rocky Face and Dalton’s Tony Patterson, who shot a 74 on Sunday. In flight one, Tunnel Hill’s Andy Nations and Dalton’s Lucas Nations tied for third at 212 after a 69 on Sunday, while Calhoun’s Jeff Brown and Hal Lamb were eighth at 226 after a closing 75. In flight two, Trion’s Will Dendy and Dalton’s Clay Shaw shared sixth at 233 after Sunday’s 75. In flight three, Summerville’s Ben Neal and playing partner Jeremy W. York from Demorest closed with a 76 to tie for fourth at 220.
Softball
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga scored all of its runs in the bottom of the seventh in a 4-3 loss to Villanova on Sunday at the USF Under Armour Invitational in Clearwater, Fla. J.J. Hamill, Hayleigh Weissenbach and Brook Womack each had two hits for the Mocs (11-14). Hamill had a home run, a double and two RBIs. Devan Brown and Weissenbach each had a double, with the latter driving in a run against the Wildcats (6-9).
» Covenant College lost 7-2 and won 7-5 in Saturday’s USA South doubleheader at LaGrange. Carlin Labuzan was 2-for-4 with an RBI single and Shade Epes had the other RBI hit in the loss for the Lady Scots (12-12, 4-2). Labuzan had the winning two-run double in the seventh inning of game two, when Epes was 2-for-2 with an RBI and scored three runs and Madelyn Ames and Erika Mast each was 2-for-3, Ames scoring twice.
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