Home runs by seniors Amanda Beltran, Morgan Kazerooni and Katie Corum powered the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team to an 8-1 Southern Conference victory Sunday at East Tennessee State University, giving the Mocs (31-13, 9-6) a 2-1 edge in the series. Beltran was 2-for-3, and her homer was a three-run shot following Halie Williamson’s third-inning sacrifice fly that began the scoring. The other two homers began a three-run sixth. Celie Hudson (12-8) pitched her fourth consecutive complete-game win. For ETSU (19-23-2, 5-9), Kelly Warren was 3-for-4, Kelsey Brown 2-for-3 and Lauren Lee 2-for-4.
» Cleveland State ended its regular season with 10-9 and 18-8 TCCAA wins Sunday at Dyersburg State. Auburn Collake was 3-for-4 and Aubrie Bowman, Hannah Turner and Hailey Galvan had two hits each and totaled four doubles and eight RBIs for the Lady Cougars (22-20, 13-16) in the eight-inning first game, when Emily Yell was 2-for-3 and scored twice. Yell was 4-for-5 with three runs in game two, while Galvan and Kallie Hawkins each was 3-for-5 with a homer, driving in five and three runs, and Bowman, Collake and Summer Dean each had a homer and two RBIs. Trailing 7-6, Cleveland State scored eight runs in the sixth inning and four in the seventh.
Baseball
» Tennessee Wesleyan’s No. 2-ranked NAIA baseball team ended its regular season Sunday with a 9-2 Appalachian Athletic Conference win at Bluefield, after winning 3-1 and 5-1 there Saturday with Manny Perez allowing three hits and no runs in 7 1/3 innings and then Cole Bellair and Jack Granath combining on a four-hitter. Tyler Reichenborn was 3-for-5 and scored two of the runs in the first game for TWU (44-8, 21-6), and Jhosmel Rodriquez was 2-for-2 with three RBIs while Anthony Williams was 2-for-3 and scored twice in game two. Bryce Giles and Max Draijer had two hits in each game, Giles with a home run and a triple in the second. Sunday, Dan Fry hit two two-run homers, Shamoy Christopher also homered, Alex Flock was 1-for-1 with two RBIs and Adrian Marquez was 2-for-4.
» No. 23-ranked Bryan College concluded its regular season Saturday with 15-5 and 18-10 AAC home wins over Montreat. Jesus Astudillo was 3-for-5 in the first game for the second-place Lions (35-13, 19-8) and contributed a three-run homer and an RBI single to their nine-run seventh inning, and Lake Burris also homered and drove in four runs. Those two homered again in the second game, Astudillo with another three-run blast and Burris resetting his school single-season record at 26 with a two-run shot, and Jacob Justice totaled only three at-bats but hit a two-run homer in each game. Marcus Catalano also homered in game one, when Wade Weinburger tripled and hit two sacrifice flies. Weinburger had another sac fly plus a homer in the finale, while Parker Cosby was 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs, Tyler Scott was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Burris was 3-for-4 and matched Scott, Astudillo and Catalano with three runs scored. Leadoff man Gabe Howell had three walks and two runs in each game.
Tennis
» The Sewanee tennis teams won their seventh consecutive Southern Athletic Association tournament championships Sunday with a 5-1 defeat of the Centre women and a 5-2 win over the Rhodes men. The Sewanee men (21-6) trailed 1-2 after doubles, the win coming from Andres Carro and Jack Gray, but sealed the title with singles victories by Jordan Brewer, Jack Metzger, Fletcher Kerr and Gray. Sewanee will learn its national tournament pairings on May 6.
Golf
» Cres Dodd of Calhoun and Kyle Hosick of Cartersville shot a 63 Sunday and finished third in the 2019 Georgia Four-Ball Championship with a 16-under-par 200 for 54 holes at Governors Towne Club in Acworth. Teenagers Samuel Lape of Cartersville and Buck Brumlow of Atlanta won with a 197.