Chattanooga State sophomore first baseman Lindsey Stickrod was the NJCAA Division I national softball player of the week after going 14-for-15 with five home runs, a double, 13 RBIs and 14 runs scored in a three-game TCCAA sweep last weekend at Southwest Tennessee. She was 4-for-6 with a triple and two RBIs as the Lady Tigers won 9-1 in five innings and 4-1 Thursday at Jackson State. Pitcher Sharlene Godoy for the second week in a row lost a perfect game with two outs in the last inning, striking out 12 with a one-hitter in the opener, when Courtney Styles and Sydney Sloan each hit a two-run homer. Hanna Manley pitched a four-hitter in the second game for nationally fifth-ranked Chattanooga State (30-8, 17-1), and Shannon Plese hit an RBI triple.
* Brenau University’s Madison Gossett from Dade County recorded her 10th pitching win of this softball season in a 3-2 victory Wednesday at Truett-McConnell. She allowed four hits in five innings for the Golden Tigers, who won the second game 7-2 with RBI hits by, among others, Kelsey Payne from East Hamilton, Savanah Moore from Soddy-Daisy and Madison Lacy from Dade. Lacy doubled and singled in that game. In the opener, Moore singled and scored the first run and singled again for the deciding RBI.
Tennis
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s tennis team stayed unbeaten in the Southern Conference with a 4-3 win Thursday at East Tennessee State, but the Mocs (15-2, 3-0) trailed 3-0 before fighting back for their eighth consecutive win. ETSU (10-4, 3-1) won the doubles point despite a win at No. 1 for UTC’s Kayla Jones and Samantha Caswell and took the first two singles matches completed. Jones lost the first set 6-0 to Lyn Yee Cho at No. 1 singles but rallied with two tiebreaker wins to begin the comeback — winning the third set after surviving multiple match points — and Kaylene Chadwell, Caswell and Alison Storie followed with three-set wins. In the last match finished, Storie trailed 3-0 in set two before winning 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. “This was an unreal team victory,” Mocs coach Jeff Clark said in a UTC release. “I am so proud of our girls for not giving up. … I thought Kayla Jones had the best match of her career. The way she kept battling back was amazing.”
* Freshman Maggie Crumbliss from Baylor School and partner Annie Veron won 8-5 at No. 3 doubles for Sewanee’s 12th-ranked NCAA Division III women’s tennis team Thursday in Atlanta, but top-ranked Emory won 8-1. Emory is 12-3; Sewanee is 12-4.