Led by Tia Teiniketo from Baylor School, the NAIA’s Dalton State women’s golf team finished fourth at 615 Monday in the Samford Spring Invitational at Hoover, Ala., behind NCAA Division I schools Jacksonville State (596), Samford and Western Kentucky. Teiniketo was 18th individually at 153. DSC’s Isabel Rijos was 23rd, Katie Dalton and Caroline Griffin shared 25th and Haeijin Choe was 27th.
* Ashley Gilliam from Manchester, Tenn., won the girls’ 14-18 division of the Pensacola Junior Classic on the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour with a 150 for two rounds at Stonebrook in Pace, Fla. Gilliam and runner-up Elise Schultz of Pace matched first-round 72s, and Gilliam edged Schultz by two shots Sunday. The third-place finisher shot 161.
Basketball
* Covenant College freshman Caleb Haynes from Section, Ala., was honored Monday for the third time this season as USA South men’s basketball rookie of the week. Haynes had 13 points and four rebounds in a win at Huntingdon and 17 points and nine rebounds in a defeat of Averett, when he was 6-of-7 from the field. He is second in the league in field-goal percentage at .612 and is averaging 8.1 points and a team-high 6.1 rebounds a game.
* The Covenant women are seeded fifth from the West for the USA South tournament and will play No. 4 seed LaGrange at 7 p.m. Friday at Maryville for the chance to play top seed Maryville in a quarterfinal at 5 p.m. Saturday. Covenant (12-12, 6-8) won four of its last five regular-season game to qualify for the tournament for the first time.