Kelsey NunleyFreshman pitcher Kelsey Nunley from Soddy-Daisy is 3-0 for her Kentucky softball career after complete-game wins against Western Michigan and 20th-ranked Stanford and a victory in relief against Oregon State. She pitched a four-hitter with eight strikeouts and one run allowed against Stanford and has a 2.83 earned run average for four appearances totaling 17 1/3 innings, with 19 hits allowed, 19 strikeouts and five walks. Kentucky is 4-2.
• The Carson-Newman softball team improved to 6-0 by edging King College twice Monday at Jefferson City, Tenn. — 4-3 and 10-9 in eight innings. They were the first wins for the school as a university. Only one of the first-game runs off Chattanooga State transfer Cassie Lyons was earned, and Sara Kelley from Ooltewah High School and Caitlyn Lance from Ridgeland each was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Kelley doubled twice, Lance once. Lance was 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI in game two, when Braleigh Angel from Baylor was 4-for-5 with a triple and an RBI, Jessica Morgan from Ooltewah was 3-for-5 with a double and three RBIs and Bri Shoemake from Ooltewah was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Morgan’s liner off the King pitcher scored Lyons with the winning run.
Basketball
• Freshman Chadarryl Clay from Girls Preparatory School made her first career start for Auburn University on Sunday and had six assists with six points in a 65-57 Southeastern Conference home loss to Florida. Clay started at point guard in place of injured Najat Quardad. Clay’s 3-point shot with 14:15 to go tied the score at 35 for Auburn (13-11, 2-9), but the Gators (15-9, 4-6) then went on a 12-3 run and led the rest of the way.
• After their 78-69 loss to West Georgia Tech last Friday in LaGrange, Ga., the Northwestern Georgia Lady Bobcats are a half-game behind the Lady Golden Knights (5-1 to 4-1) in NJCAA Region XVII play. GNTC, which won the region tournament and went on to the national event last year, can create a first-place tie by winning Saturday at 2 p.m. against Middle Georgia Tech in a doubleheader with the men’s teams at the Rossville Athletic Complex. A Lady Cats victory would lead to a coin flip to determine the top seed for the national qualifier, since the Lady Cats and Lady Golden Knights split their two meetings. Some proceeds from the remaining GNTC home games will go to tornado relief in Adairsville and nearby areas recently hit.
Fishing
• David Perron of Dayton, Cliff Broadrick of Tullahoma and Brad Harmon of Ringgold were fourth, fifth and seventh in the co-angler category of the season’s first Walmart Bass Fishing League Choo Choo Division tournament Saturday on Lake Guntersville. Perron brought in 21 pounds, 2 ounces while Broadrick and Harmon weighed 18-8 and 18-1. Helped by the tournament’s 13-1 “big bass” whopper, Creighton Johnson of Canton, Ga., was the top co-angler with 25-14, good for $2,783. Johnny Patterson of Grant, Ala., was the pro winner with 31-12, good for $5,565. Tim Buckner of Scottsboro was 10th with 21-15, and Rossville’s Jeff Todd tied for 16th with 19-11.