The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team, coming off a seven-stroke victory in its spring opener, leads by the same margin after the first round of the Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Classic at the Oak Point and Osprey Point courses in South Carolina.
The Mocs placed first in the nine-team USA Women’s Invitational in Mobile, Ala., which finished this past Tuesday, for their second win of the 2015-16 season, and they opened this week’s tournament with a 5-under-par 283 against a much larger field on Kiawah. College of Charleston is second in the 41-team field, which includes 216 golfers. UTC senior Emily McLennan is tied for first in that group after shooting a 4-under 68, while teammate Christina Perez (70) is tied for fourth.
Megan Woods (72, tied for ninth) and Isabella Loza and Monica San Juan – who each shot a 73 and are tied for 15th – are also competing for the Mocs in the 54-hole tournament that continues today and finishes Tuesday.
Men’s Basketball
‘ Second-seeded Sewanee lost 68-50 to No. 1 seed Birmingham-Southern in the Southern Athletic Association tournament final Sunday in Birmingham, Ala.
Sewanee (20-8) beat Centre 68-62 in a semifinal Saturday night, when Cody Jones had 15 points and six assists and Keshonn Carter also scored 15 points as the Tigers reached 20 wins in a season for the first time in 18 years.
On Sunday, only Baylor School alumnus Clay Born, who had 11 points, scored in double figures for Sewanee, though Brody Stone added nine points and eight rebounds. Ross Welch scored 15 points with five 3-point baskets for Birmingham-Southern (22-6), and SAA player of the year Alex Avery had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Baseball
‘ Delta State won its Gulf South Conference series Sunday with a 17-3 thumping of Lee University in Cleveland, Miss. Ben Holland, Geremy Walton and Brayden Ware homered for Lee (6-7, 1-5).
‘ No. 14 Tennessee Wesleyan beat No. 17 Northwestern Ohio 6-2 and 9-0 in a doubleheader matchup of ranked NAIA teams Sunday in Athen to improve to 8-4.
‘ Northwestern Ohio lost 3-2 and won 2-1 Saturday at Bryan, with the visitors’ win coming on a four-pitcher six-hitter while three Lions allowed five hits.
Cody Rhinehart was 2-for-3 and Preston King homered in defeat for No. 23 Bryan (10-4), after Brookes Jones was 2-for-3 and King, Rhinehart and Jesus Astudillo each had a hit and an RBI in support of L.J. Rowden’s fourth pitching win of the season and Chad Burrows’ save.
‘ Berry College improved to 12-1 as it won an SAA series at Sewanee with a 12-2 victory Sunday. Jackson Cooper was 3-for-3 and Tyler Minkkinen and Ryan Poole each went 2-for-3 for Sewanee (1-13).
Lacrosse
‘ Relly King had six goals and an assist in the Sewanee women’s 18-10 win Saturday against Hendrix and matched Catherine Crigler and Hannah Tompkins with three goals apiece in an 18-6 nonconference win Sunday against Adrian.
Tompkins had two assists Sunday for the Tigers (3-2), while Sydney Beldock had two goals and two assists, Tariro Kandemiri had two goals and one assist and Katie Riddle had three assists and a goal. Riddle and Beldock each had three goals and two assists Saturday, when Crawford Horan and Brianna Young combined for 11 saves.
‘ The Sewanee men (2-1) lost 16-5 Saturday at 13th-ranked Roanoke (3-0), despite 16 saves by Selby Austin. Peter Brown had two assists and was one of five Tigers with a goal.
‘ Haden Gibbons from Girls Preparatory School scored a goal in the Centre women’s 12-8 SAA victory Sunday against Berry.
‘ Tennessee Wesleyan’s men lost 18-16 to St. Gregory’s in men’s lacrosse Saturday and are 2-2. The Tennessee Wesleyan women take a 3-0 record into today’s home match against Johnson & Wales after beating Montreat 19-1 this past Thursday with five goals each and a combined three assists from Taylor Barganier and Emily Waldrop.