The NAIA’s No. 4-ranked Dalton State College women’s golfers finished second at 917 to No. 8 Loyola of New Orleans (904) in the SSAC tournament Wednesday at Greenville, Alabama. DSC’s Katie Dalton and Cameron Daniel were third and fourth individually at 224 and 225, and Hannah Gasaway tied for ninth at 231.
» The Dalton State men, also ranked fourth, finished fifth at 890 Tuesday in their Roadrunner Classic at The Farm in Rocky Face, Georgia. No. 1 Coastal Georgia won at 868 with No. 2 Oklahoma City second at 883, No. 6 Northwestern Ohio third at 884, No. 5 Keiser fourth at 887 and No. 3 Texas Wesleyan tied with No. 8 USC Beaufort for sixth at 893 out of 12 teams. Playing as individuals, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Will Porter and Leon Bader were sixth at 217 and tied for 10th at 220, respectively. Dalton State’s Matthew Cleary and Ben Rebne tied for eighth and 10th at 219 and 220, and teammates Eli Hendricks and Jack Clark shot 222 and 224.
Baseball
» Tennessee Wesleyan senior outfielder Braden Mosley was the Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the week for games played April 1-7, and junior teammate Irving Martin was the pitcher of the week. Martin pitched a four-hit shutout with 12 strikeouts and totaled 13 strikeouts in 9 1/3 innings. Mosley batted .563 with three home runs, 14 RBIs and six runs.
» Cleveland State lost 8-5 and won 4-0 on the road Wednesday against the Tusculum junior varsity. Tucker Mendenhall was 2-for-3 and scored two runs and Jonathan Hickman and Andrew Carpenter each had two hits and an RBI in the loss for the Cougars (20-15), and Matt Voda was the starting and winning pitcher in the shutout.
» Justin Fragale hit a tying single in the eighth inning and the deciding sacrifice fly in the 10th as Lee University won 15-14 Tuesday night at Trevecca Nazarene. Trevecca (16-16) scored the first five runs and led 13-4 before the Flames (18-21) scored three runs in the fifth inning and five in the sixth. Landon Silver homered, doubled, took three walks, batted in five runs and scored five for Lee, while Justen Freeman had two hits and two RBIs and Alan Smith also had two hits and matched Miguel Pimentel with three runs scored.
» A second-inning grand slam by Lake Burris and an eight-run seventh inning propelled Bryan College to an 18-8 NAIA nonconference win Tuesday against visiting Lindsey Wilson. Jacob Justice also homered and matched Destine Udombon in going 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Lions (27-11), and Tucker Cain was 1-for-1 with a two-run double. Wade Weinburger was 2-for-2 with two walks, three runs and an RBI, while Tyler Scott tripled, walked twice, drove in two runs and scored three and Marcus Catalano was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI.
Softball
» The Lee softball team won 8-4 and lost 14-8, giving up a 12-run second inning, Wednesday against 24-13 Trevecca. Abby McKinney homered and drove in four runs and Taylor De Adder had a three-run triple and a double in the win for Lee (19-25), and De Adder had two RBIs in the loss, when Kayla Louie and Lily Hatcher each had two hits, an RBI and a run and raised their season stolen-base totals to 38 and 25.
» Bryan clinched a spot in the AAC tournament with 5-4 and 5-3 home wins against Montreat. Maryah Sober was 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run in the first game, and Hannah O’Shields hit a three-run double in the second for Bryan (18-24, 13-13).
» Covenant lost 9-0 and 5-2 in USA South softball at Maryville. Cope Whitaker was 3-for-3 with an RBI and Madyson Gibbins had two hits for Covenant (11-20, 6-8) in the second game.
Track & Field
» Tennessee Wesleyan University’s Dillan Elkins was the AAC men’s outdoor track performer of the week and teammate Djimon Wilson was the field honoree for their success in the Lenoir-Rhyne Classic. Elkins won the 200-meter dash in a national-qualifying time of 21.29 seconds, fifth best in the NAIA this season, and helped win the 4×100 relay in a national-qualifying time. Wilson finished fourth in the high jump with a TWU record.