Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan routed sixth seed Union College 10-2 in the championship game Monday of the Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball tournament in Kingsport, Tennessee. Tyler Reichenborn homered and singled and Anthony Williams, Dan Fry, Aloysius Cruz and Jhosmel Rodriquez each batted in two runs for TWU (48-8), while starting pitcher Manny Perez gave up five hits and two unearned runs in 5 2/3 innings.
* No. 4 seed Chattanooga State defeated host Columbia State 8-5 on Monday in the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII baseball tournament in Columbia, Tennessee. Third-seeded Cleveland State lost 3-2 to Dyersburg State. For Chatt State (32-13), Jacob Holton doubled twice and matched the two RBIs of Nick Blubaugh, who doubled and singled along with Branson Bowling and Noah Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald got the pitching save with a two-strikeout ninth inning. Winning pitcher Kyle Nunn allowed three hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings. The Tigers play top-seeded Walters State at 5:30 p.m. EDT today. Dyersburg’s Blake McCutchen was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and the deciding run scored against the Cougars (27-19), who got RBI hits from Andrew Carpenter and Alex Coulter. Coulter and Marcial Hernandez each was 2-for-4.
Softball
* No. 1 seed Chattanooga State beat Roane State 9-0 on a Brooke Parrott five-inning two-hitter in the state/region softball tournament Monday at Columbia State, and seventh seed Cleveland State lost 3-1 to No. 2 seed Walters State but then edged Columbia State 4-3 in eight innings to stay alive. Chatt State (39-8) scored six runs in the first inning, when Ashlyn Holland mixed in a two-RBI double with one-run doubles by Haley Smith, Madison Crabtree and Lauren Hamby and an RBI single by Mary Kate Pritchett. Hamby later homered and was 2-for-2 along with Pritchett, while Holland was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and Katie Cheeseman and Smith each was 2-for-3 and scored twice. The Lady Tigers face Motlow today at 11 EDT. Against Walters (33-17), the Lady Cougars’ Emily Yell was 2-for-3 and Kaitlyn Pickens gave up only two earned runs. Pickens then got a win against the hosts with Hannah Turner’s tying two-run homer in the sixth and Auburn Collake’s winning two-run shot in the eighth. Collake was 2-for-3. Cleveland State (24-21) plays the Motlow-Chatt State loser at 4 p.m.
Golf
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior golfer Monica San Juan opened play Monday with a 77 in the NCAA Auburn Regional at Opelika, Alabama, and was tied for 62nd place in the 96-player field. Vanderbilt led the teams at 287 with Auston Kim sharing the individual lead at 70 with Tennessee’s Michaela Williams and a Maryland player. Tennessee is fifth at 294 with Mariah Smith and VU’s Courtney Zeng in a six-way tie for fourth at 71.
* Lee University’s 21st-ranked Lady Flames were ninth at 307 after Monday’s first round in the NCAA Division II South Regional they are hosting at Cleveland Country Club. With Lucy Eaton pacing the field with a 68, No. 5 Florida Tech at 294 led the team standings by a stroke over No. 17 Saint Leo. For Lee, Emily Felix shot 75, Annika Gino 76 and Haverly Harrold and Carson McKie 78s.
Tennis
* Sewanee’s Southern Athletic Association championship tennis teams dominated the 2019 league awards. From the female Tigers, who will face Washington & Lee in an NCAA tournament second-round match this weekend at Emory, Conchie Shackelford was coach of the year, Catherine Owen player of the year, Owen and Ellie Czura first-team All-SAA and Mary Jane McCaghren second-team. Jordan Besh, Maura McCrary and Caroline Adams received honorable mention. From the Sewanee men, Felix Mann was coach of the year, Andres Carro player of the year, Brandon Kali newcomer of the year, Carro and Jack Gray first-team All-SAA and Kali and Jordan Brewer second-team with honorable mention for Jack Metzger and Fletcher Kerr. They will play North Carolina Wesleyan in a second-round NCAA match at Emory.