UTC wins 7-0 in men’s tennis and other sports news

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s tennis team got its first win of the season Saturday in Memphis, 7-0 over Murray State. Luke Saunders at No. 3 singles pulled out a third-set tiebreaker to secure the team’s shutout win. The Mocs (1-5) will host Jacksonville State at 1 p.m. Saturday and Tennessee Tech at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Racquet Club in Hixson.

Basketball

* The Sewanee basketball teams split their Southern Athletic Association games Sunday afternoon against visiting Berry College, with the men winning but the women losing 84-77 in overtime. Former McCallie standout Jorden Williams led the Tigers men (12-7, 6-2 SAA) with 20 points, and Brody Stone and former Baylor player Leo Born scored 14 points each. Marcellus Caldwell added 11 points in the win. In the women’s game, Sewanee (10-8, 2-6) scored 43 points in the second half to force overtime, but Berry’s Chanlir Segarra scored 12 of the Vikings’ 14 points in the overtime and finished with 27 to beat the Tigers. Sewanee was led by Jamie Chauvin with 19 points, and Rebekah Faulkner came off the bench to get a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Savannah Rose scored 15 points, Hanna McCormack added 11 and Kayla Sewell grabbed 11 rebounds.

* Veshawn Bell scored 15 points and Devin Watkins added 10 for the Georgia Northwestern men’s basketball team in a 70-37 loss Saturday to Oxford College at the Rossville Athletic Center. That dropped the Bobcats to 7-14.

Baseball

* After losing the season opener Friday against visiting Tennessee Wesleyan, the Auburn-Montgomery baseball team edged the Bulldogs 3-2 and 2-1 on Saturday. Wardy Polanco was 2-for-2 with two walks and two stolen bases for TWC in the first loss, when Chris Washington pitched a four-hitter allowing two earned runs in defeat. Jarrod Jameson and Dillon Dove combined on a four-hitter for the Bulldogs in the series finale; Tyler Albert had their RBI.

* Bryan College opened its baseball season with three home wins this past weekend against Toccoa Falls: 6-5 on Friday and 3-1 and 6-3 on Saturday.

Softball

* Lee University opened its softball season Saturday by defeating Hiwassee 33-0 and 12-0 in Cleveland. Angie Hughes pitched a five-inning no-hitter with nine strikeouts in the second game, when Dominique Hannah was 2-for-3 with four RBIs, Amanda Lynn and Leigh Beatenbrough each was 2-for-2 and scored twice and Lexie Dean matched Beatenbrough’s two RBIs and two runs. Hannah, Lynn and Dean each had three hits in the opener, and Lynn, Kaylie Drew and NiaRaye Ceasar drove in four runs each while Dean, Hannah, Emily Dagnan and Beatenbrough had three RBIs apiece. Lynn, Dean, Dagnan and Drew each scored four runs, and Rachel Polacek and Qiley Lewis each had three runs and two RBIs. Beatenbrough allowed no hits in her three innings as the starting pitcher.

Swimming & Diving

* Sewanee senior Brian Glatt won the men’s 50- and 100-yard freestyle events and joined classmates David Dan and Matthew Karstens and junior Will Ralston in winning the 200 free relay in the Tigers’ 148-108 loss to nationally third-ranked Emory on Saturday at Sewanee. Sewanee divers Courtney Moore and Grace Cobbs won both the 1- and 3-meter events for their gender, and the Tigers won both 200 individual medleys with Caty Hueske and Erin Neil finishing one-two in the women’s race and Jackson Cromer touching first in the men’s. Meghan Mulhern, Carolyn Rice, Anna Thorson and Hueske won the women’s 200 free relay. The female Tigers lost only 138-128 to Emory’s No. 1-ranked and five-time defending national champions.