The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team moved up into a tie for fourth with Idaho at 600 in the second round Friday of the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Tennessee is third at 598, six shots behind Fresno State, with Arizona leading the 12-team field at 572. UTC’s Monica San Juan shot a 72 and is tied for fifth individually at 145, while Maddy McDanel and Esme Hamilton are at 152, Kirsty Beckwith at 153 and Rheagan Hall at 155.
» Bryan College golfers Krista Reinhardt and Taylor Williams finished second and third at 161 and 162 this week in Brenau’s Golden Tiger Invitational at Gainesville, Georgia. Reinhardt lost to the hosts’ Niquole Mangal in a playoff for first that Williams missed joining by a lip-out putt on the final hole.
Baseball
» Cleveland State overcame a 3-0 deficit to beat visiting Chattanooga State 7-3 in the opener Friday of their three-game TCCAA series. Rhett Baldwin, Jonathan Hickman and Tucker Mendenhall each was 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Cougars (12-9), Baldwin and Hickman with a home run apiece, and Marcial Hernandez also was 2-for-4. Ryan Inches was the winning pitcher, and Brock Browning got a three-innning save. For the Tigers (16-9, 2-5), Bailey Russell had a two-run homer and Noah Fitzgerald and Ty Delancey each doubled and singled, Fitzgerald with an RBI.
» Covenant College lost 14-3 in a USA South game at 24th-ranked LaGrange (16-6, 9-3). John Mitchell and Brooks DuBose each was 2-for-4 for the Scots (10-10, 4-5), Mitchell with an RBI, and Lewis Saunders hit a two-run double in the three-run first inning.
Softball
» Chattanooga State won 3-0 and 8-0 in TCCAA play Friday at Cleveland State as Brooke Parrott pitched a two-hitter with 12 strikeouts and Rilee King followed with a five-inning perfect game that included six strikeouts. Haley Smith was 3-for-4 with a two-run seventh-inning home run, two doubles and two runs scored in the first game for the nationally 12th-ranked Lady Tigers (20-4, 7-1) and 4-for-4 with a double in game two. Ashlyn Holland was 3-for-4 with an RBI double in game one and added a two-run double in the rematch, when Kayla Woody was 1-for-1 with two walks.
» Sewanee beat Southern Vermont 8-0 and lost 10-1 to Kentucky Christian as the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic ended Friday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Kendell Goodrum pitched a one-hitter in the win for the Tigers (3-19), who got a 3-for-3 game and three runs from Taylor Wagner and two hits and two RBIs apiece from Rachel Hoffman and Charlsey Shirey. Goodrum was 1-for-2 with the RBI in the loss.
Track & Field
» Lee University’s Justin Brooks was the Gulf South Conference men’s track performer of the week and Chloe Flora was the women’s co-track honoree after their teams’ impressive showing last weekend in the Charlotte 49er Classic, and the Lee men are fifth nationally and the Lady Flames 23rd – both program highs – in the USTFCCCA National Rating Index for NCAA Division II’s young outdoor season. At Charlotte, Brooks won the 400-meter dash and was third in the 200, both in provisional qualifying times for the national meet, and Flora won the women’s 5000 invitational race in a program-record and provisional qualifying time of 16:49.73. That’s the best D-II time so far this season. Lee men’s records fell in the 110 hurdles (Derek Flatford), 400 hurdles (Jeremiah McCain), javelin (Samuel Duarte) and shot put (Gari Garmendia), and Flatford in the long jump, Josiah Brooks in the 100, Christian Noble in the 5000 invitational and Thomas Kelton in the 3000 steeplechase finished fourth in events.
Fishing
» The Bryan College team of Trevor St. John and Bailey Fain will be among the 12 boats going back out on Alabama’s Lewis Smith Lake today for the final round of a Carhartt Bassmaster College Series tournament that started with 249. The Bryan duo were 11th after two days with their total of 26 pounds, 11 ounces. Montevallo’s J.T. Russell and Porter James led with 38-10. The winning boat gets $2,500 for its school’s fishing team. Three other Bryan teams finished 22nd, 26th and 27th – Thad Simerly with Ethan Shaw, Cole Sands with Conner Dimauro and Tyler Price with Preston Kendrick – and the Lions’ Jake Lee and Dalton Price were 35th.