A second straight shutout by junior pitcher Celie Hudson paced a 6-0 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga victory Friday and a Southern Conference softball series sweep of Western Carolina in Frost Stadium. Hudson allowed only two hits and struck out seven batters and Halie Williamson hit a two-run home run and Alyssa Coppinger was 1-for-1 with a solo homer for the Mocs (29-12, 7-5), while Aly Walker was 3-for-4 with two RBI singles and a run scored.
» Lee University won 8-5 and 6-3 in Gulf South Conference home games Friday against Montevallo. Abby McKinney was 6-for-7 with five RBIs in the two games for Lee (21-28, 9-16), Taylor De Adder was 6-for-6 and pitched a six-hitter and Kayla Louie matched them with three first-game hits. De Adder, McKinney, Bailey Church and Claudia Jones homered in support of Shonna Penney’s pitching in game one, and Church homered again in the rematch and was 2-for-3 with three RBIs.
» Bryan College followed a 12-0 loss Thursday to Georgia Gwinnett with a 5-3 upset of the NAIA’s fifth-ranked Grizzlies (34-12). Lindsey Dunn got the pitching win with a two-out save from Olivia Johnson for the Lady Lions (20-26), and Dunn had a single amid three walks and an error in their three-run fifth inning. Allison Walker had an RBI single in the second and Shannon White added an RBI double in the third. Austyn Durham scored twice.
Baseball
» Lee lost 6-2 and 11-2 to visiting Montevallo on Friday and now is 21-24, 10-14 in the GSC. Justen Freeman was 2-for-3 and Thomas Zazzaro and Miguel Pimentel also had two hits in the first game for the Flames, Zazzaro with an RBI and Pimentel with a triple and a run. Pimentel homered and Parker Stahlman was 1-for-2 with an RBI in game two, when the Falcons (19-24, 15-11) got a Sebastian Samuels grand slam and two other homers in an eight-run fifth inning.
» Chattanooga State won 2-1 and 12-2 over Dyersburg State in TCCAA play Thursday, but Friday’s game was rained out – as was Cleveland State’s series finale with Southwest Tennessee.
» In a USA South game delayed twice Friday for a total of three hours, Covenant College beat visiting North Carolina Wesleyan 25-17 as John Mitchell went 4-for-5 with a triple, three doubles, two walks, three stolen bases, four runs and three RBIs and Hunter Christian and Tyler Moore each had four hits and four RBIs, Christian with a homer and Moore with two doubles. Also for the Scots (15-20, 8-13), Lewis Saunders was 3-for-5 with four runs and three RBIs, Tommy Easley 3-for-5 with three runs and two RBIs and Alex Gonzalez 3-for-5 and Brooks DuBose 3-for-6 with two runs and an RBI apiece. Covenant had 26 hits and eight steals. Logan Andrews and Trey Croom were a combined 6-for-8 with two homers, seven RBIs and seven runs for the guests (22-13, 12-8).
Soccer
» The Chattanooga Red Wolves will face South Georgia Tormenta FC at 7 p.m. Saturday in a USL League One match at Chattanooga Christian School’s David Stanton Field. The Red Wolves (1-2) lost 1-0 to the Greenville Triumph SC last Saturday in South Carolina. Tormenta FC (2-0-2), from Statesboro, is in first place in the league standings.
Tennis
» The UTC tennis teams ended their seasons with first-round losses Thursday in the SoCon tournaments in Macon. The fourth-seeded UTC men (14-11) lost 4-1 to host Mercer despite earning the doubles point with wins by Niklas Gerdes and Tomas Rodriguez (7-6) and by Pablo Llebeili and Luke Plaisted (6-3). The female Mocs (8-13) lost 4-0 to top-seeded Furman (24-1).
Lacrosse
» For the second Saturday in a row, Sewanee will host Centre in women’s lacrosse, but their 4 p.m. EDT match will be a Southern Athletic Association tournament semifinal on Puett Field, where third seed Centre (13-4) defeated Oglethorpe 11-8 on Friday. The Colonels lost 18-9 at Sewanee (12-6) last week. The Sewanee men (9-6) also will be home Saturday, on Hardee-McGee Field starting at 1 EDT, as the fourth seed against fifth-seeded Birmingham-Southern (7-8).