The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team posted its second consecutive 295 total Saturday and is in ninth place out of 18 teams going into the final round of the Furman Intercollegiate tournament at Greenville, S.C. Georgia State leads by five strokes at 570. UTC’s Liam Johnston and Andrew Weathers share 27th place individually at 146, and Wes Gosselin is tied for 39th at 147 following a team-best 72 Saturday. Ewan Scott is at 152.
* First-round leaders Matt Oxford of Rocky Face and Philip Hughes of Kennesaw remain tied for first going into the final round of the Georgia Four-Ball tournament in Valdosta. They and 2011 winners David Matthews and Doug Rayford of Valdosta are at 9-under-par 135, four shots ahead of the next duo. Dalton’s Tony Patterson and Calhoun’s Tre Lamb slipped back into a tie for seventh in the championship flight at 143. Dalton residents Dwight Hefner and Duane McMullen are tied for first in flight five at 146, Joel Hughes of Dalton and Jerry Hughes of Valdosta share the third-flight lead at 147, and Dalton’s Howell Kerr and Calhoun’s Greg Brock are tied for fourth at 147 in flight two.
Baseball
* West Florida edged Lee University 2-1 in 12 innings in the first game of their Gulf South Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday in Pensacola, Fla. A walk, a hit batter, a bunt single and another walk provided the winning run for the Argonauts (17-11, 11-8). Chris Adams homered in the third inning and Dustin Lawson allowed seven hits in his nine innings pitched for Lee (17-11, 8-9-1), which totaled 13 hits in the game. Nate Wierzgac was 3-for-5 and Siosi Poti, Andres Nelo and Trent Hill had two hits apiece in defeat.
* Tennessee Temple took two 12-2 wins against Johnson University on Saturday at Signal Mountain’s high school field, with 14 and 15 hits. Alex Walker pitched a five-hitter in game one, when Micah Wyatt was 3-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored, Trey Hill homered and doubled and both drove in and scored three runs, Chase Burke was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Caleb Lee also was 2-for-3 and Ryan Bruce was 2-for-4. Chase White pitched a two-hitter with no earned runs and went 2-for-3 with two RBIs in game two, when Bruce was 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs, Wyatt was 3-for-4 again and scored three times, Hill was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs and Lee also had two RBIs for the Crusaders (13-5).