Ashley Conner’s second grand slam of the young season highlighted the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 7-6 softball win over UT-Martin in the Ole Miss Classic on Friday in Oxford, Miss. The Mocs (8-8) totaled 11 hits in that game after managing only three in a 5-2 loss to Saint Louis, when Morgan Kazerooni worked an RBI walk and Halie Williamson added a sacrifice fly for UTC. Devan Brown was 1-for-2 with a double. UTC scored all seven runs against UTM in the second inning, and Alexa Veamoi got the pitching win with four innings of four-hit, scoreless relief. Williamson and Alyssa Coppinger each was 2-for-3 with a run scored, Coppinger adding an RBI.
Basketball
-Dalton State moved on to the championship game tonight of the Southern States Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament in Montgomery, Ala., with an 80-69 win Friday against No. 3 seed Loyola (La.). Reed Dungan made 12 of 13 free throws and totaled 24 points for second-seeded DSC (24-7), which jumped to a 28-12 lead and had a 32-18 halftime margin. Carnilious Simmons had 16 points and 15 rebounds, Isaiah Box 12 points and four assists and Aaron Burress 10 points for the Roadrunners, who face top-seeded William Carey (24-5).
-Bryan College’s second straight appearance in the NAIA Division II women’s basketball tournament in Sioux City, Iowa, begins at 9:30 a.m. EST Wednesday against Indiana Tech, which is 29-4 and ranked ninth nationally, won the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference regular season and finished second in the WHAC tournament. Bryan (25-9) tied for first in the Appalachian Athletic Conference and lost in a playoff with Reinhardt but beat the Eagles in the AAC tourney final. Reinhardt opens play Thursday at 11:15 a.m. EST against Eastern Oregon.
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