Frank Reed has 600 wins as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball coach after his Mocs edged Tennessee State 2-1 behind Celie Hudson’s one-hit pitching Wednesday at Frost Stadium. UTC (22-22) had only four hits, but Aly Walker scored on Amanda Beltran’s double in the second inning and hit a home run in the fourth. Hudson (11-10) has won her last five starts and allowed only eight hits in her last 21 innings. Reed is the all-time wins leader in the Southern Conference and is 1,076-490 as a college coach.
» Chattanooga State is 42-8 with 30 wins in a row after beating Snead State 8-1 and 9-4 on Wednesday. Jenna Edwards pitched a three-hitter with nine strikeouts and Kaleigh Wynne was 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs in the first game for the 12th-ranked Lady Tigers, and then Wynne threw a five-hitter with 10 strikeouts while Shelby Penning went 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs, Madison Crabtree went 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI and Madison Tidmore was 2-for-4 with three stolen bases and two runs. In game one, Katie Cheeseman was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Alyssia Bowen was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Golf
» Dalton State finished off a dominant win in the SSAC men’s golf tournament with a 7-under-par 277 round Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. It was the fourth consecutive league title for the NAIA’s third-ranked Roadrunners, whose 854 was 35 strokes better than second-place Martin Methodist. DSC’s S.M. Lee was the medalist by 11 strokes at 10-under 203, capping a final-round 65 with an eagle, and teammate Dalton Johnson (67) was second with P.J. Shields tied for third at 218, Ben Rebne tied for seventh at 220 and Chase Cole tied for 15th at 225. Lee repeated as SSAC player of the year, and DSC’s Ben Rickett was coach of the year.
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