A day after the Lee University women’s basketball team lost in the semifinals of the NAIA Division I national tournament in Jackson, Tenn., the Lady Flames’ Katie Nelson was named a first-team All-American and junior guard Brooke McKinnon was a third-team choice. Nelson, a senior forward from Scottsboro, Ala., was a second-team selection last year, when Tellico Plains resident McKinnon earned honorable mention.
Softball
* The Chattanooga State softball team won two five-inning 8-0 TCCAA games Tuesday against Roane State, Kendall Bruning pitching a one-hitter with 10 strikeouts and going 3-for-3 with two homers in the first game and Haley Workman adding a one-hitter and going 3-for-3 with two RBIs in the rematch. Workman also drove in two runs in the opener, when she went 2-for-3 and Kaela Jackson and Laura Curtis homered ahead of Bruning in the fifth inning. Brittany Cooley was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Whitney Galloway also was 2-for-3 in the second game for the Lady Tigers (30-7, 6-0).
* MORRISTOWN, Tenn. – Cleveland State won 7-6 and lost 5-3 in a TCCAA softball doubleheader Tuesday at Walters State. Stacie Scott got the pitching win and had an RBI hit in each game for the Lady Cougars (16-14, 2-4). Maddie McKinney homered in game one, when Dee Elswick and Paige Smith had RBI singles.
* Valdosta State junior Holly Satterfield from Hixson High School was the Gulf South Conference softball pitcher of the week for her three wins last week. She had three complete games, including an eight-inning victory with 10 strikeouts and a five-inning, three-hit shutout, and pitched 21/3 innings of no-hit relief for another win. Satterfield struck out 23 batters and allowed only two earned runs in 211/3 innings.
* Former Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe and Chattanooga State player Brianna Payne of MidAmerica Nazarene University was honored as Heart of America Athletic Conference softball player of the week for the second time this season. As MNU went 5-2 last week, Payne was 17-for-27 (.630) with two triples, 10 stolen bases, 11 runs scored and three driven in.
Baseball
* CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Lee University won 10-3 and lost 7-6 in an NAIA baseball doubleheader Tuesday against Trevecca Nazarene. Tanner Moore was 2-for-2 with two home runs and two walks and Junior Rodriguez was 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs in the win for Lee (23-8), and David Eskew (5-1) pitched a complete game. Taylor Comford was 3-for-4 and Rodriguez was 2-for-4 in the loss, each with an RBI.
Golf
* STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – The UTC women’s golf team tied for third out of 12 teams Tuesday in the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate tournament hosted by Georgia State. The Lady Mocs shot a final-round 312, tying Augusta State at 934 for 54 holes. Led by medalist Cathrine Madsen at 221, Georgia State won with a 905. Christine Wolf closed with a 74 for a 228 for UTC, tying her for seventh place, and Maria Juliana Loza and Emma de Groot shared 15th place at 232. Moa Duff tied for 40th at 242. The Lady Mocs play Friday through Sunday in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational at Austin, Texas.
Tennis
* The UTC tennis teams both host Lee University at 2 p.m. today at the Champions Club and entertain Wofford and Furman in Southern Conference matches this weekend. The Lady Mocs (4-9, 1-3) will play the South Carolina schools at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the UTC courts, where the Mocs (1-10, 0-4) will play at 2:30 p.m. each day. Lee’s women are 4-0 but haven’t played since March 5. Lee’s Flames are 4-2. The Wofford women’s coach is Katie Hangstefer, sister of UTC player Emily Hangstefer.
Lacrosse
* Senior Steffi Renninger scored three goals as the Sewanee women’s lacrosse team won 20-5 at home Monday night against North Central from Illinois. Sewanee is 6-1.