With Emily McLennan and Agathe Sauzon sharing second place individually at 2-over-par 146, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga leads the Southern Conference women’s golf tournament by nine strokes at 597 at Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head, S.C., with one round to play. UNC Greensboro is second with Furman third at 610. UTC’s and Porsche Campbell is tied for 10th at 152, and Isabella Loza and Jordan Britt are at 155 and 157. UTC’s 297 was the best first-round score in the event since Furman’s 294 in 2008.
• Lee University placed three golfers on the 10-member All-Southern States Athletic Conference men’s team — Matt Emery, Hunter Vest and Taylor Davis — and then opened the league tournament Monday with a first-place 282 at Legoon Park in Montgomery, Ala. Emery shot a 3-under-par 69 to tie for second place three shots behind Coastal Georgia’s Chase Miller from Dalton High School — another All-SSAC player along with teammate Hunter Cornelius from Heritage High. Lee’s Florian Loutre and JB Eksteen are tied for fifth at 70 with Peyton Sliger tied for 11th with Cornelius at 73, and Vest shot a 75.
• Sewanee freshman Emily Javadi from Chattanooga is tied for first place in the Bluegrass Spring Classic women’s golf tournament at Lexington, Ky., after shooting a 75 in the first round Monday. The Tigers are seventh as a team, with Alison Eleey tied for 19th at 85.
Softball
• Kentucky freshman Kelsey Nunley from Soddy-Daisy was chosen the Southeastern Conference softball pitcher of the week after setting a Wildcats record with her 20th win of the season Saturday, 4-2 against third-ranked Florida, and pitching 42/3 innings of strong relief Sunday. Nunley (20-4) was 3-0 in her 252/3 innings for the week, with 15 strikeouts.
• Fourth-year starting catcher Bri Shoemake from Ooltewah High School completed her Carson-Newman home career Saturday by going 1-for-2 with an RBI in the first game and hitting a three-run double in the second as the Lady Eagles beat Brevard 9-0 and 7-6 in eight innings. That gave her 159 collegiate RBIs to go with a .371 batting average and 19 home runs. Another Ooltewah alumna, Sara Kelley, was 3-for-3 with three RBIs in the opener, and Ooltewah’s Jessica Morgan scored twice in each game. Freshman Kaitie Sims from Baylor got both pitching wins but dropped to 18-5 with a 1-0 loss Sunday at Coker. Carson-Newman (30-16) then won 3-0 with an RBI and a run apiece from Kelley and Shoemake. Kelley was 2-for-2 in the loss.