The Southern Conference women’s golf tournament continued Monday to conform to current rankings rather than recent history. Furman, the highest-ranked team in the league, stretched its lead over the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the five-time defending champion, with a 284 for a 573 total going into the final round at Savannah Quarters Country Club at Pooler, Ga. UTC’s Mocs shot 288 for a 582 and are seven strokes ahead of third-place Samford. Furman’s Taylor Totland and Alice Chen share the individual lead at 4-under-par 140. UTC’s Emily McLennan is tied for third at 141 with Agathe Sauzon tied for fifth at 144, Cris Perez sharing 11th at 148 and Megan Woods tied for 14th at 149.
* Led by Levi Nix with a first-place 68 and Sean Elliott with a 69, Dalton State took the first-day lead in the Southern States Athletic Conference men’s golf tournament Monday at the Montgomery (Ala.) Country Club. The Roadrunners are at 281, one ahead of reigning NAIA champion and nationally top-ranked Coastal Georgia, with Mobile third at 284. Dalton State’s Chase Jones and Coastal Georgia’s Hunter Cornelius from Heritage High School are tied for ninth at 72, one better than DSC’s Maximillian Bruck. Cornelius has three teammates ahead of him.
* The Georgia Northwestern men’s golf team is in good shape for its region’s berth in the NJCAA Division III tournament after the first round of the Region XVII tournament Monday at Stonebridge Country Club in Albany, Ga. The Bobcats shot a 304 for a 27-stroke lead over the other Division III participant, Georgia Military, and are 12 behind longtime junior college power Darton in the overall standings. Darton is in Division II along with third-place Andrew and fourth-place Abraham Baldwin. Gordon Lee graduate Lanier Guest led GNTC Monday wih a 1-over-par 73, and Jordan Estes, Chase Cole and Drew Tankersley had 77s with Grant Allen at 78.
* Sewanee senior Saer Brown is tied for first individually at 3-under-par 69 in leading the Tigers to fourth place after Monday’s round in the Rhodes Mirimichi Spring Classic at Tunica, Miss. Rhodes leads at 287 with Scott Hamel also at 69, and Sewanee shot an aggregate 298 with Timothy Walter and Cole Parrish tied for 27th at 76 and Alex Wedding tied for 33rd at 77. Covenant is last in the 14-team field, but the Scots’ Scott McKnight shares 13th place individually at 73.
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