University of Tennessee at Chattanooga junior Marquis Carter and redshirt freshman Maddison Melchionna earned all-conference distinction with third-place finishes as the Southern Conference indoor track and field meet concluded Saturday in Birmingham. Carter was third in the men’s 800-meter run with a time of 1 minute, 55.67 seconds. Melchionna was third in the women’s 800 in personal-record indoor time of 2:13.39 — 0.18 second off assistant coach Anneli Uys Morrison’s school record from 2010. Senior Amanda Cotter just missed all-conference finishes with a fourth in the women’s 5000 and a fifth in the women’s mile, and sophomore Hannah Chamblin and UTC men’s junior Trevor Janssen were sixth in the two 800s. UTC was fifth in both 4×400 relays and freshmen Drake Watson and Jacob Noorbergen were fifth in the men’s 60 hurdles and sixth in the 200 dash, respectively, and classmate Emily Drouin was sixth in the women’s 5000. Western Carolina won both team championships with Samford second; UTC was fifth in the women’s standings, sixth in the men’s.
Wrestling
* Baylor School finished seventh in the National Preps wrestling tournament in Bethlehem, Pa., this weekend despite taking just five entrants. Michael Murphy (138) and Ryan Parker (195) finished third, and Blake Sutherland (160) was fourth after an ankle injury forced him to withdraw during his bronze medal match. Cayman Seagraves (170) finished fifth. Baylor heavyweight Cooper Reiniche went 1-2, losing to two eventual All-Americans.
Tennis
* After falling 6-3 to top-seeded and nationally fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins on Friday, the 21st-ranked Sewaned women’s tennis team edged 11th-ranked host DePauw 5-4 in the ITA Women’s Indoor National tournament Saturday morning in Greencastle, Ind. The Tigers played Washington & Lee for fifth place in the prestigious eight-team, invitation-only event. Lindsey Liles won in both doubles and singles and Annie Veron won at No. 6 singles against Hopkins, and Liles and Bronte Goodhue won in doubles again and individually against DePauw, with Christina Merchant also winning in singles for the Tigers and Maggie Crumbliss and Veron prevailing in doubles.
Baseball
* Bryan College defeated visiting Covenant 5-1 and 5-2 in a baseball doubleheader Saturday in Dayton. Kenny Knudsen improved his season pitching record to 5-0 with a six-hitter that included six strikeouts in the second game, when Preston King was 2-for-4 with a home run and Kevin Roberts was 1-for-2 with two RBIs for the Lions (15-4). Will Carlton was 3-for-3 with a homer and Will Cleland was 2-for-2 with the other RBI for Covenant (6-5). Cleland also had the Scots’ first-game RBI, while Scott Gillespie and Caleb Bloye each was 2-for-4 in defeat. King was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Roberts and Joey Underwood each had two hits and an RBI for Bryan. L.J. Rowden allowed five hits in six scoreless innings for the win, and Chad Burrows finished up for the save.
* Sewanee lost 6-1 and won 3-1 in a Southern Athletic Association baseball doubleheader Saturday against Hendrix in Conway, Ark. Tyler Minkkinen was 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs and Tony Dykes was 2-for-3 with the other RBI in the win for Sewanee (3-1, 1-1). Charles Warren pitched six innings and Mike O’Neil and J.T. Hintzen took care of the seventh in the win. Dyke had the Tigers’ RBI in the loss, when Ryan Poole was 2-for-4.
Softball
* After losing 6-5 at West Georgia on Friday, the Lee University softball team won 10-0 and lost 5-4 in their Gulf South Conference doubleheader Saturday in Carrollton. Dominique Hannah was 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs in the win for the Lady Flames (10-8, 2-6), and Leigh Beatenbough was 2-for-2 and scored three runs. Kaylie Drew was 2-for-4 with two runs and Amanda Lynn was 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run in support of Angie Hughes’ five-inning one-hitter with 11 strikeouts. Lexie Dean was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run in the series finale.
* Morgan Lane was 4-for-4 with three home runs and eight RBIs as Covenant College won 4-3 and 13-2 in softball Saturday at Agnes Scott. She was 3-for-3 with two homers and six RBIs in the second game. Cris Gant was the game-one pitching winner with Joni Johnson recording a save and then getting the win in the rematch.
* Jessica Morgan from Ooltewah went 2-for-3 with a two-run inside-the-park home run as the host team completed a 4-0 run through the Carson-Newman Classic softball tournament with a 5-0 win Saturday against Indiana Wesleyan. In the third of the 12-2 Lady Eagles’ four shutout victories, a 9-0 defeat of Lees-McRae, Hayley Burnette from Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe had a two-run double and former Chattanooga State player Cassie Lyons homered.
Basketball
* UTC basketball coaches Will Wade and Jim Foster will be the guest speakers for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. They will be talking about the Mocs’ seasons and the Southern Conference tournament this week in Asheville, N.C. Admission costs $10 with a meal, $4 without. UTC is seeded No. 1 for the women’s event, No. 2 for the men’s.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee beat Hendrix 18-7 on the road in women’s lacrosse Saturday and edged 17th-ranked Roanoke 10-9 in the first victory over a ranked team for the men’s program. Robbie Berndt and George Bukawyn each had two goals and an assist and Cotter Brown also scored twice for the Sewanee men (2-0), while Selby Austin made 17 saves. Sally Anne Greenwood scored five goals and Relly King had three goals and an assist for the Sewanee women (2-0), and Ellie Murphy and Katie Riddle combined for four goals and five assists. Wittney Reed matched their two goals each, and Crawford Horan had 11 saves.
Rugby
* The UTC and Lee University women’s rugby club teams tied 10-10 on Saturday at Montague Park, and both will play later this month against South Division leaders Alabama and Kennesaw State for spots in the USA Rugby national playoffs. UTC, unbeaten in its spring matrix season, scored first in each half Saturday with Monica Brown touching a try from a Shaquila Golden pass and Ebony Freeman making a 22-meter run. Rachel Murray had the answering score for Lee in each case.