University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sophomore Agathe Sauzon from Valence, France, was the Southern Conference women’s golfer of the month for April, when she had two top-10 finishes in tournaments in her first semester with the program. She was the individual winner in a playoff in the SoCon tournament as the Mocs won their fourth consecutive league title.
Baseball
• The Tennessee Wesleyan College baseball team blasted its way Friday to the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament championship at Kingsport, Tenn., with 8-1 and 10-1 wins over Reinhardt and Virginia Intermont. Wesleyan (43-16), ranked eighth in the NAIA after winning the national title last year, won the AAC regular season by 6 1/2 games and is 24-4 this season in AAC play. But the Bulldogs lost 11-4 to Reinhardt in Thursday’s late game after beating the same Eagles 4-2 on Wednesday.
• The Lee University baseball team belted William Carey 11-5 on Friday in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament in Columbus, Ga., and is scheduled to play nationally second-ranked Faulkner today for the championship. Lee is ranked No. 4 in the NAIA.
• Chattanooga State rallied from a sizable early deficit but lost 7-6 to host Volunteer State in the four-team TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII baseball tournament Friday at Gallatin, Tenn.
Softball
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior second baseman Sara Poteat made the Capital One Academic All-District 3 first team for 2013, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America. This is a repeat selection for the Thomaston, Ga., resident. Going into the Lady Mocs’ last regular-season series of the season, this weekend at Elon, Poteat is batting .335 with team highs of 56 hits and 17 stolen bases, and she is graduating today as an exercise science major with a 3.8 grade point average. The all-district team also included Tennessee’s Ellen Renfroe, Raven Chavanne and Madison Shipman. Five players from area colleges were included on the District 4 college division team: Tennessee Wesleyan’s Lindsey Arndts from Ten Mile (3.90) and Brooke Ward from Soddy-Daisy (3.78), Bryan College’s Jill Davis from Decatur (3.88) and Kateline Vaughn from Rocky Face (3.65) and Lee’s Laurel Allen from Cleveland (3.44).