Balance put the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team at the top of the team standings Monday in the first round of the Davidson College Invitational at River Run Country Club in Davidson, N.C. Andrew Weathers made five birdies and joined teammates Liam Johnston, Wes Gosselin and Kory Webb with even-par 72s for a 288 that had the Mocs one shot ahead of UNC Charlotte in the 12-team field. Wofford is third at 294. The four Mocs are tied for sixth place, two shots out of the lead, and teammates Ewan Scott and Brooks Thomas shot 74 and 75.
* Led by Emily McLennan in a tie for eighth individually at 146 and Agathe Sauzon in a tie for 11th at 147, the UTC women’s golf team is sixth at 606 after two of the three rounds in the 40-team Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Spring Classic. College of Charleston leads at 588, 10 strokes ahead of second-place Troy. Elon is fifth at 603, and Samford and Western Carolina are seventh and eighth at 607 and 609. UTC’s Cris Perez is tied for 44th after two 77s.
* With Sean Elliott tied for second individually at 143 after Monday’s two rounds, the Dalton State men’s golf team is tied for third at 590 out of nine teams going into the final 18 holes of the Doublegate Collegiate Invitational at Albany, Ga. Elliott is one behind the leader, and teammates Levi Nix and Anthony D’Angelo also are in the top 10 at 144 and 145, and Maximillian Bruck and Dalton Johnson shot 151 and 152. Eastern Florida State is the team leader by 13 strokes at 572.
* Lee University finished seventh out of 16 men’s golf teams in the Las Vegas Desert Classic held Sunday and Monday at the Paiute Golf Club-Snow Mountain, and the Flames’ Shea Sylvester was all-tournament after a five-way tie for second place at 144 (70-74), one behind the medalist. Lee shot 603, 13 strokes behind the winning University of the Redlands. Flames freshman Corey Sheppard tied for 12th at 148.
Basketball
* With regular-season champion Tennessee Wesleyan also winning the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament, Bryan College got the second bid from the AAC to the NAIA Division II women’s basketball tournament in Sioux City, Iowa. Coach Jason Smith’s Lady Lions (21-8) were the second-seeded team going into the tournament, where they were upset by eventual runner-up Milligan. This is the first time Bryan’s women have qualified since 2007, when current Illinois coach Matt Bollant was the coach at the Dayton, Tenn., school.
Softball
* Chattanooga-area players had big impacts as Brenau University began Southern States Athletic Conference softball play with four wins this past weekend. Kelsey Payne from East Hamilton and Savannah Moore from Soddy-Daisy each was 2-for-4 with a home run and Madison Lacy from Dade County had three hits in a 13-10 win at Coastal Georgia, and Dade’s Madison Gossett was the winning pitcher with only one earned run allowed in her 3 2/3 innings and then got the save in a 3-1 victory that featured another Moore homer. The Golden Tigers (10-1) then beat Brewton-Parker 8-0 and 10-4 with Gossett earning her sixth win of the season in the first game, when Moore had two RBIs and Payne had two hits and stole two bases, and Lacy contributing two hits and four RBIs in game two.
* Covenant College’s Morgan Lane from Girls Preparatory School was the USA South softball player of the week announced Monday, and teammate Joni Johnson was the rookie pitcher of the week. Lane was 4-for-4 with three home runs, eight RBIs and five runs in a doubleheader sweep of Agnes Scott. She is batting .550 with 13 RBIs this season. Johnson got a save and a win against Agnes Scott, giving up one hit in five innings.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee had both Southern Athletic Association lacrosse defensive players of the week for matches through Sunday — goalies Crawford Horan for the women and Selby Austin for the men, the latter for the second time this season already. Horan had 11 saves and a .611 save percentage in a win over Hendrix, and Austin made a career-high 17 saves with a .654 stop rate in a 10-9 defeat of nationally ranked Roanoke. Roanoke scored only two times in the second half.