The fourth-seeded University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s tennis team beat Mercer 4-0 in the Southern Conference tournament Friday at the Champions Club, after the UTC men lost 4-0 to Mercer. The female Mocs (10-7) won the doubles point with Samantha Caswell and Emma Van Hee prevailing 6-4 and Caroline Hall and Bogdana Zaporozhets winning 6-2 and then got singles victories from Delaney Edwards (6-2, 6-4), Van Hee (6-1, 6-4) and Zaporozhets (6-3, 6-4) to end the team contest. They play top-seeded Furman in the semifinals at 2 p.m. today. Furman beat UNC Greensboro 4-0, East Tennessee State topped Wofford by the same score and Samford defeated Western Carolina 4-2. In the other men’s matches, ETSU and Furman won 4-0 over The Citadel and Wofford and Samford edged UNCG 4-3.
‘ Sewanee’s top-seeded tennis teams beat the Hendrix women 5-0 and the Hendrix men 6-0 in Friday’s quarterfinals in the Southern Athletic Association tournament at Murfreesboro. Neither Tigers team used its top lineup. The nationally 22nd-ranked Sewanee men (20-5) won 8-2, 8-0 and 8-1 in doubles and got 6-0, 6-0 singles wins from Davis Owen and Hayden Loeb at Nos. 4 and 5 and a 6-0, 6-1 victory by Dane Hawthorne at No. 6 to end their match. They face Rhodes in the semifinals. The No. 11 Sewanee women (19-4) face Oglethorpe. They won 8-0, 8-3 and 8-3 in doubles Friday and finished off the team triumph with 6-0, 6-0 wins by Meredith Heitland and Taylor Sprouse at Nos. 3 and 6 singles.
Softball
‘ Chattanooga State stretched its softball winning streak to 32 games Friday in a TCCAA home doubleheader against third-place Volunteer State, but the Lady Tigers (44-8, 27-1) had to go 10 innings to win 5-4 and then rallied from five runs down in the sixth inning to win 6-5 in seven. They scored four in the sixth. Kaleigh Wynne pitched all 10 innings with eight strikeouts in the first game, when she hit a two-run home run in her first plate appearance and was walked in her other four, Kylie Longmire was 2-for-3 with a homer and two walks and Alyssia Bowen was 3-for-5 with an RBI. Longmire was 2-for-3 again in game two with an RBI and a run, while Madison Tidmore was 2-for-4 with a triple, an RBI and two runs and Kayla Woody was 2-for-4 with a run and the winning RBI.
‘ Stevie Baird was 2-for-3 with a homer, a double and four RBIs and Claudia Jones was 1-for-2 with a double and three RBIs as Lee University routed visiting West Georgia 11-2 in Gulf South Conference softball. Also for Lee (23-26, 11-17), Abby McKinney was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and Lily Hatcher and Kayla Gooch each had two hits and scored twice.