Two teams from Calhoun, Georgia, are tied for first place in the 2019 GSGA Four-Ball golf tournament going into today’s final round in Houston County. Rhett McGowan and William Hamilton shot a 9-under-par 63 Saturday on the Southern Landings course at Warner Robins to match Mike and Nash Nance (65) at 130. Andy Nations of Tunnel Hill and Lucas Nations of Dalton are fourth at 136 after a 67.
Tennis
» Wesley Cash of Chattanooga and Mark Vines of Naples, Florida, fell short Saturday in their attempt for a 12th USTA category 1 doubles title together. They lost 6-1, 6-3 to Michael Tammen of Oregon and Mike Fedderly of California in the National Men’s 60 Hard Court final at Palm Springs, California.
Fishing
» Westin Moss and Josh Willis from Whitwell won the Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Southern Open presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors with a five-fish limit that weighed 20 pounds, 11 ounces Saturday on wind-chopped Lake Guntersville. Moss and Willis, who used Driftwood Swimbaits made in Jasper, earned $3,200 for their school’s fishing team and a spot in the high school national tournament. The Southern Open included 296 boats, and Whitwell’s Boomer Winters was 11th with 15-8.
» Miles Burghoff of Hixson moved up to seventh Saturday in the FLW Tour bass tournament on Grand Lake in Oklahoma and is one of today’s 10 finalists. His three-day total was 42 pounds, 7 ounces.
Baseball
» Lee University lost 7-5 Friday and 14-10 and 11-3 Saturday in Gulf South baseball at West Georgia. Friday for Lee (16-18, 7-9), Ryan Beamish was 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Tyler Payne was 2-for-3 with an RBI triple and Thomas Zazzaro scored twice. In Saturday’s first game, Miguel Pimentel was 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and Justen Freeman and Zazzaro had two-run doubles, and Alan Smith was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Justin Fragale also had two RBIs, and Keyshaun Smith was 3-for-5.
» Cleveland State went 3-0 in TCCAA baseball at Columbia State with 9-1 and 12-2 wins Friday behind pitchers Ryan Inches and Jonathan Hickman and an 18-7 victory Saturday. Marcial Hernandez had three RBIs, Andrew Carpenter a home run and two RBIs and Hickman also two RBIs in the first game, and Lance Dockery was 3-for-4 and matched Carpenter with three RBIs and Hickman had another two in his mound start. Saturday, Dockery was 5-for-6 with a homer and a triple and scored six runs, Hernandez was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Hickman and Rhett Baldwin each was 2-for-4 with five and four RBIs for the Cougars (18-11, 9-4), and Ethan Walls provided six innings of shutout pitching with seven strikeouts.
» Chattanooga State won 6-1 and 10-0 at home against Jackson State on Friday.
» Covenant College lost 12-10 on Friday and won 6-4 and lost 16-1 Saturday in a USA South home series against Huntingdon, ranked No. 12 in Division III. Alex Gonzalez and Brooks DuBose homered and equaled Tyler Moore, Hunter Christian and John Mitchell with two RBIs each for Covenant (12-14, 5-9) in Friday’s game, when Chris Fisher was 4-for-4 with four RBIs and Garrett Breland was 5-for-6 with a triple, two doubles and four RBIs for the Hawks (20-7, 12-5). CJ Edmond had two hits for the Scots in Saturday’s first game, and Tommy Easley was 2-for-3 with the RBI in the finale.
Softball
» Chattanooga State completed a two-day TCCAA softball sweep of Jackson State with five-inning 8-0 and 10-1 wins Saturday. Lindsay Modar pitched a four-hitter in the shutout, when Madison Crabtree was 2-for-2 with two home runs and Madison Tidmore hit a three-run homer for the 13th-ranked Lady Tigers (27-5, 12-2). Ashlyn Holland had two homers and five RBIs in the second game, while Breanna Vinson homered and doubled and batted in two runs, Haley Smith had a three-run double and Abby Wall threw a five-hitter.
» Cleveland State lost 11-5 and 7-5 in TCCAA games at Columbia State, but Aubrie Bowman was 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI and Hannah Turner had two hits and three RBIs in the first loss for the Lady Cougars (12-15, 5-11). Bowman, Hailey Galvan and Sadie Coons had two hits apiece and Auburn Collake two RBIs in game two.
» Lee lost 5-2 and 21-5 in GSC games Saturday at West Georgia. Kiley Longmire and Taylor De Adder each was 2-for-3 with an RBI for Lee (16-21, 5-12) in the first game; Claudia Jones was 2-for-3 with a homer and all five RBIs in the second.
» Covenant won 2-1 and lost 7-4 in USA South play at Brevard. Carsyn Stone pitched a three-hitter, Faith Manning was 3-for-4 with a triple and a run scored and Madalyn Ames was 2-for-3 in the win for the Lady Scots (9-16, 4-4).