The Lee University women’s basketball team 72-63 to the University of Tampa on Friday night in Lakeland, Florida, in the first round of the NCAA Division II tournament. Lee (25-7) trailed 15-12 after one quarter and 31-25 at halftime, and the Spartans (22-8) solidified their control of the game with a 23-14 third quarter. Dori Nagy had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Astaja Tyghter added 16 and nine for the winners. Abby Bertram scored 25 points and Haley Schubert and Taylor Boggess added 11 apiece for the Lady Flames. Bertram was announced earlier as a D2CCA All-South Region second-teamer. She averaged 14.5 points a game.
Baseball
» The NAIA’s No. 2-ranked Tennessee Wesleyan University baseball team lost 4-2 Friday at No. 14 Bryan College in the first game of their Appalachian Athletic Conference weekend series. Lake Burris, Jacob Justice and David Scoggins hit solo home runs for Bryan (17-7, 5-2) in the first, second and fourth innings, and Justice, who was 2-for-3, singled home Burris in the sixth. Joseph Cuomo was the winning pitcher with 10 strikeouts in seven innings, and Dalton Ross got the save. For TWU (20-5, 3-3), Braden Mosley and Dan Fry each was 2-for-4, Mosley with a homer, and Philip Sieli struck out eight Lions in 5 1/3 innings. The Bulldogs had won 13-10 Wednesday in a nonconference game at Martin Methodist, where Mosley was 3-for-6 with two homers and five RBIs, Max Draijer was 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs and Fry was 3-for-5 with an RBI triple and three stolen bases.
» Motlow State got a grand slam from Sam Stohr in the seventh inning and won 7-5 at Cleveland State in the opener of their TCCAA weekend series. The host Cougars (9-8, 3-2) had gone ahead 5-3 in the fifth on RBIs from Jonathan Hickman, Lance Dockery, Caleb Hopkins and Pete Williams. Dockery and Rhett Baldwin each had two hits, and Hickman pitched six innings with eight strikeouts and only one earned run allowed. Stohr was 3-for-5 and Patrick Music had a two-run double for the Bucks (14-6).
» Chattanooga State’s TCCAA home series with Roane State is scheduled as a doubleheader for Saturday starting at 2 p.m. and a single game Sunday at 1. The Tigers won 8-3 and 5-4 over the Covenant junior varsity Wednesday.