Tennessee Wesleyan’s Eric LaRue was the Appalachian Athletic Conference men’s tennis coach of the year, TWC senior Ezequiel Gils was the player of the year, teammate Frederico Staksrud was the freshman of the year, and the 10-man all-conference team included those two Bulldogs and Milligan junior Jackson Lenoir from Chattanooga. Wesleyan freshman Kacka Saskova made the women’s all-conference team.
Softball
* Former Chattanooga State player Haley Fagan of Trevecca Nazarene was the Tennessee Sports Writers Association college softball pitcher of the week, and Tennessee Temple’s Raven Pope was the player of the week. Pope was 12-for-15 (.800) with three doubles and seven RBIs in four games for the Lady Crusaders, while Fagan won three of her four starts and allowed just 13 hits and four runs in 24 1/3 innings. Pope was 2-for-4 in each game as Temple (8-22) lost 4-3 and won 6-4 in eight innings at Wesleyan in Macon, Ga., on Tuesday. Cayley Shoemaker was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI in the first game and 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run in game two, when Taylor Tsai and Courtney Bonaiuto each was 2-for-3 and Carley Daniel pitched a six-hitter with one earned run allowed. Jillian McGill was 1-for-2 with two RBIs in the loss.
Baseball
* Bryan College senior Kenny Knudsen was chosen the AAC baseball pitcher of the week for the second time this season after his seven-inning three-hitter with five strikeouts in the Lions’ 11-0 win Saturday against Union College. Hunter Tipton allowed three hits in seven innings and Jose Hernandez and Zeke Colby completed a four-hitter as Bryan beat Lee 8-0 on Tuesday in Cleveland. Chris Jeffries was 2-for-5 with a home run, a triple and two RBIs and Preston King was 1-for-2 with two runs and an RBI for Bryan (35-14). Luke Toms was 2-for-3 for Lee (25-17-1).