After beating Indiana Tech twice Saturday, 14-4 and 12-6, the Tennessee Wesleyan completed the NAIA baseball series Sunday with a 4-0 win. Ridge Hoopi-Haslam was 3-for-4 with a home run, a triple, a double and four RBIs and Wardy Polanco and Shell McClain each had two hits and three RBIs in the series opener for TWC, and Hoopi-Haslam was 2-for-3 with two runs while Brad Carpenter was 3-for-4 and Tyler Albert hit a grand slam in Saturday’s second game. Sunday, McClain knocked in two runs and Polanco went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Taylor Patterson picked up the win with two innings of perfect relief of starter Taylor Saucedo.
Sewanee opened its baseball season Saturday by beating Johnson University 20-2 and 10-1. Jack Whaley was 2-for-3 with four RBIs for the Tigers in the first game and 4-for-4 with an RBI and two runs in game two, when Tony Dykes was 3-for-3 with two runs and an RBI. Nathaniel Howard and Tyler Minkkinen had three hits apiece and four and three runs in the first game, Howard with two RBIs, and Michael Walker and Jackson Cooper combined to score six runs and bat in five.
The Chattanooga State baseball team beat eighth-ranked Georgia Perimeter 9-1 and 10-8 on Saturday with Austin Hutchison pitching a complete game for his third win of the season and then the Tigers (7-2) overcoming a 7-1 deficit and winning game two on Nate Schmal’s home run capping a five-run seventh inning. David Mayo, Andy Clay and JoJo Underwood each had two hits and two RBIs in game one, and Clay and Underwood had two hits again in the rematch, when Sean Williams was the winning pitcher in relief.
Softball
Covenant College opened its softball season Saturday by winning 12-6 and then losing 19-7 to visiting Berry College. Madison Quirk was 3-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored and Morgan Lane was 3-for-5 and matched Jordan Brett and Jami Johnson with two RBIs in game one for Covenant, and Joni Johnson was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run. Quirk was 2-for-2 with two doubles and three RBIs in game two, when Berry totaled 24 hits with Sarah Moore going 4-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs and Rachel Barton and Brooke Mackelburg combining to go 6-for-6 with seven RBIs and six runs scored.