The Sewanee men’s basketball team tries today to win an eighth consecutive game for the first time in program history. The Tigers, 15-7 overall and 6-5 in the Southern Athletic Association, host Birmingham-Southern in their home finale after the 2 p.m. EST women’s game. Friday night, Sewanee averted an upset by visiting Millsaps and won 65-64 as Tyler Brown scored 14 points and Robert Veal added 10 on 4-of-5 shooting from the field. That gave Sewanee its first seven-game winning streak since the 1975-76 season. The Tigers led by 14 points at halftime but fell behind twice in the game’s final minute on shots by Nick Cortese, who led the Majors (4-18, 2-9) with 17 points. Brett Bouldin answered the first with a 3-point basket, and fellow senior Brown made the winner with two seconds to go from a full-court drive and dish by Valentino Bryant. Bryant had six assists in the game, and he and Keshonn Carter each blocked three shots. The Tigers’ 15 wins are the most in a season since the 1997-98 team went 20-6.
• Cleveland’s Ish Sanders led Carson-Newman to a 61-58 South Atlantic Conference home win Saturday against Lenoir-Rhyne with 19 points, and Cody Henegar from Marion County added nine points and a team-high seven rebounds. Sanders’ 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left decided the game.
Baseball
• Roberto Duran went 2-for-3 with three RBIs and Brady Renner accounted for two runs with a home run as Lee University bounced back from its first loss of the baseball season with a 9-0 win over Rio Grande in the Tennessee Valley Invitational on Saturday. The Flames, ranked third in the NAIA poll, lost 4-3 to Madonna earlier on Olympic Field in Cleveland. Karsten Strieby was 2-for-3 with an RBI in each game for Lee (7-1), and Mark Silva and Jonathan Stewart each was 2-for-3 in the loss, when three runs for the Michigan team were unearned. Bryan, which got a one-hit pitching performance from L.J. Rowden in a 1-0 win over Rio Grande on Friday, improved to 5-1 by winning 5-2 over Bluefield and 9-2 over Georgetown (Ky.) on Saturday.
• Defending NAIA national champion Tennessee Wesleyan evened its 2013 baseball record at 3-3 by defeating visiting West Virginia Tech 6-5 and 5-2 on Saturday. Wes Minton was 1-for-1 with a two-run home run and Logan Dalton, Josh McCray and Brackton Smith each was 2-for-3 in the first game for the Bulldogs, Dalton with two RBIs and Jake Stone with three stolen bases. Travis Burnside was 2-for-3 with a run scored and McCray was 1-for-2 with two RBIs in game two, when Zach Fleshman allowed one earned run in six innings and Noah Piard got the save with a one-hit seventh.