NAIM, Scotland — Chattanooga’s Brooke Pancake and South Carolinian Austin Ernst got the United States team a point and a half Saturday in the Curtis Cup women’s amateur golf competition, but Britain and Ireland closed to within 6 1/2-5 1/2 going into the closing eight singles matches today. Pancake, who recently hit the putt that gave Alabama the NCAA championship, hit the winning putt also on the 18th hole as she and 2011 individual NCAA champion Ernst, a former AJGA winner at WindStone, rallied to win a Friday foursomes match. They beat Holly Clyburn and Amy Boulden 2 up in a Saturday foursome and halved with Leona Maguire and Bronte Law in the four-ball play.
• Gator Fouche of Dalton, Ga., and Craig Jarrell of Manchester, Tenn., are among the 77 players entered in the sectional qualifier Monday at Mystery Valley Golf Club in Lithonia, Ga., for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. The field will play 36 holes for three spots and two alternate positions in the national event July 9-14 in Midway, Utah.
Baseball
• Former Cleveland State and Tennessee Tech pitcher Stephen Pryor got his first major league baseball win Friday night — as part of the Seattle Mariners’ six-pitcher no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have the best record in baseball. Pryor (1-0) got a strikeout to end the seventh inning, and Seattle scored in its next at-bat. Pryor then walked two batters in the eighth before being replaced. Former Brave Kevin Millwood pitched the first six innings of the 1-0 win but left with a mild groin strain. Recent Chattanooga Lookout Nathan Eovaldi allowed five hits in his own scoreless six innings for the Dodgers. Ex-Lookout Dee Gordon of the Dodgers was called out at first on an extremely close play in the ninth.
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