Sam Taylor went 4-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team beat Tennessee State 10-5 Wednesday at Frost Stadium. Criket Blanco was 2-for-4 with a double, a walk and four RBIs for the Mocs (24-21), Ashley Conner was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Alyssa Coppinger was 2-for-2 with two walks. Amanda Ross and Jordan Fortel each added two hits, and Fortel (6-8) was the winning pitcher after working the final four innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on five hits and two walks while striking out four. UTC tallied 16 hits to six for Tennessee State (10-35).
– Bryan College split its senior day doubleheader with NAIA No. 4-ranked Campbellsville on Wednesday, losing 4-0 before pulling off a 5-1 upset. Kim Borowski and Lacye Walker each was 3-for-4 with a double in the win, and Becca Zimmerman drove in three runs for the Lady Lions (26-20). Kaitie Sims earned her 13th pitching win of the season, allowing three hits and six walks while striking out seven. Campbellsville is 44-8.
– Covenant College ended its season Wednesday with a split of a home doubleheader against Agnes Scott, losing 12-4 and winning 10-6. Senior Morgan Lane of Chattanooga and GPS finished the day with three hits and ends her career tied for the program record for hits (177). The Lady Scots finished 18-21-1, their most wins in a season since 2012.
– Tennessee Wesleyan won 6-3 in eight innings and lost 4-1 in nonconference play Tuesday at Brenau and now is 23-16. Savannah Moore from Soddy-Daisy was 2-for-2 with two doubles and scored two runs in the first game for Brenau (25-20), and Kelsey Payne from East Hamilton was 2-for-4 with a three-run home run in the Georgia school’s win.
Golf
– Hollee Sadler from Coffee County tied for seventh at 226 and Maddie Everts from Notre Dame High School tied for 16th at 230 as Tennessee Tech’s Nos. 2 and 3 finishers in a runner-up team performance Wednesday in the Ohio Valley Conference women’s golf tournament. In winning for the third time in four years, Eastern Kentucky set an OVC record with a 54-hole 888 at the Robert Trent Jones Trail at Hampton Cove course near Huntsville, Ala. Austin Peay’s Jessica Cathey from Soddy-Daisy was 19th individually at 232.
Tennis
– Not only did UTC’s Samantha Caswell from Baylor School earn All-Southern Conference second-team status for 2016, but so did her sister Harper Caswell, who made the team in doubles with Furman teammate Karlee Bryde. The SoCon tournaments will be held Friday through Sunday at Chattanooga’s Champions Club.
– Tennessee Wesleyan College sophomore Frederico Staksrud was named Tuesday the Appalachian Athletic Conference men’s tennis player of the year with the 18-5 Bulldogs’ Eric LaRue as coach of the year, and Jaime Llardo also made the All-AAC team with Caio Bardauil and Alejandro Prada on the all-freshmen team. Staksrud was 14-3 at No. 1 singles and 15-2 at No. 1 doubles in the regular season. TWC sophomore Katerina Saskova was voted to the All-AAC women’s team, and Haruka Hirata made the all-freshmen team. Thays Cardoso and Pancho Gallardo represented the Athens school on the Champions of Character lists. Milligan senior Jackson Lenoir from Arts & Sciences was another Champions of Character choice as well as an All-AAC player for the third time.
– Freshman Ali Harris from Crossville, Tenn., was one of two Carson-Newman players who made the 2016 All-South Atlantic Conference women’s second team. Harris played No. 1 singles all season and went 12-7.