The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golfers lead at 302 after the first round Saturday in the 18-team Low Country Intercollegiate tournament at Hilton Head Island, S.C., and NAIA member Dalton State is tied for eighth with Seton Hall at 314.
Bethune-Cookman is second at 304 with Appalachian State at 305 and Gardner-Webb at 306. UTC’s Cristina Perez is tied for second individually at 73, one stroke behind William & Mary’s Alex Liu. Emily McLennan is tied for sixth at 75 with Monica San Juan and Sarah Dolmovich sharing 19th place at 77. Dalton State has Katie Dalton at 75, and Caroline Griffin tied for 11th at 76.
– The Sewanee women’s golf team shot a 298 Saturday and is at 599 with a 12-stroke lead going into the final round of the Jekyll Island Women’s Collegiate tournament at the Indian Mound Gold course. Six Tigers shot in the 70s in the second round, and 10th-ranked Emily Javadi from Chattanooga is tied for first at 143.
Baseball
– Lee University won 6-1 and 8-4 in Gulf South Conference baseball Saturday at Shorter. Art Vidrio pitched a nine-inning five-hitter with 10 strikeouts in the opener, when Kyle Briner was 3-for-5, Trenton Hill homered and singled and Nathan Wierzgac doubled and singled for the Flames. Lee’s Luke Toms and Chris Adams homered for a 3-0 first-inning lead in game two, Wierzgac hit a three-run homer in the third and Adams added his second two-run shot in the seventh. Justin Alleman struck out nine for Lee (14-12, 6-8).
– First-place Tennessee Wesleyan completed a three-game AAC baseball sweep of visiting Reinhardt with a 9-4 win Saturday. Wardy Polanco was 3-for-5 and scored two runs, Sully Rios Reyes was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Paolo Montezuma homered and also had three RBIs, Cody Stroud homered and tripled and Alfred Cruz was 2-for-4 for the Bulldogs (18-7, 8-1), ranked 12th in the NAIA. Ryan Hartman pitched a three-hitter and Pedro Barrios was 4-for-4 and scored twice in Friday’s 6-0 first game, when Polanco was 3-for-4 with a homer, two RBIs and two runs.
– Second-place Bryan College is 21-7, 7-2 in the AAC, after winning 7-5 Saturday at St. Andrews. Langston Calhoun had three hits and three RBIs and Justin Morhardt homered and doubled for Bryan.
– Cleveland State lost 6-4 and won 3-0 in TCCAA baseball Saturday for a 2-1 series triumph at Southwest Tennessee, as freshman pitcher Jake Rogers made a bid to be the pitcher of the week for the third time in a row. He pitched a four-hit shutout with six strikeouts while Blake Thomas went 2-for-3 and scored twice. Devin Gardner had an RBI hit in the loss for the Cougars (15-10, 6-3).
– The Emory University baseball team responded to Friday’s 4-3 loss at Covenant College by edging the Scots 7-4 and 3-2 Saturday in Atlanta. Luke Harvey was 3-for-4 and Z Arima was 2-for-4 with two RBIs in the first loss for Covenant (11-13), and Julien Amorelli was 2-for-3. Harvey was 2-for-3, stole three bases and scored both runs in the finale.
– Sewanee had five hits in each game in losing 10-3 and 7-1 to visiting Birmingham-Southern in SAA baseball Saturday. Sam Roberts was 4-for-5 with four RBIs in the first game for BSC (18-3, 7-1), when Kyle Schnell was 2-for-4 with a two-run double for Sewanee (2-22, 1-7). Schnell had an RBI triple in game two.
Lacrosse
– Relly King had five goals and an assist as Sewanee won 10-9 in SAA women’s lacrosse Saturday at Berry. Kelly Thomsen and Katie Riddle scored twice each for the Tigers (4-6, 2-2), while Savannah Robar had two goals and three assists for Berry (6-4, 1-1).
– The Sewanee men’s lacrosse team hammered winless Oglethorpe 27-1 on Saturday, with Robbie Berndt and Hayden Hunt each registering two goals and an assist. The Tigers are 5-3, 2-0 in the SAA.
General
– UTC athletic department officials Brent McMillian and Andrew Horton will be the guest speakers for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without.