The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Teghan Henderson won the women’s 10,000-meter run Thursday at the Southern Conference outdoors track and field meet at Cullowhee, N.C., and Keeley Stewart was seventh. Henderson’s time of 37:04.05 was 15 seconds faster than the runner-up from Furman. UTC’s Haley Morris was seventh in the 3000 steeplechase.
Softball
– After both won in upsets in the opening round, No. 7 seed Mercer defeated sixth-seeded UTC 7-4 in the SoCon softball tournament Thursday in Greensboro, N.C. UTC (29-27) plays East Tennessee State at 12:30 p.m. today in an elimination game postponed from Thursday night by bad weather. An RBI double by Ashley Conner in the first inning and a home run by Jordan Fortel in the fourth gave UTC a 2-0 lead over Mercer (23-33), but Meghan Rud’s two-run single in the fifth and Quirisa Mauga’s two-run homer in the sixth put the Bears ahead. Amanda Beltran’s third homer in two games, with Conner on base, got the Mocs even at 4, but the Macon, Ga., team scored three unearned runs in the seventh. Conner was 2-for-3 and Sam Taylor was 2-for-4 for UTC. SoCon pitcher of the year Mollie Hanson had a no-hitter in Samford’s 3-0 win over UNC Greensboro.
– Chattanooga State outfielder Shannon Plese, catcher Jordan Roberts and pitcher Labrisha Washington made the 2016 All-TCCAA softball first team, and teammates Devan Brown, Kayla Logoleo, Lillie McCrary and Jennah McElheney were second-team honorees. The Lady Tigers finished 45-20 and were the runners-up in the state/region tournament.
– East Hamilton graduate Shaliyah Geathers was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored as third-seeded Tennessee beat South Carolina 5-1 in the Southeastern Conference softball tournament Thursday in Starkville, Miss., but No. 2 seed Kentucky lost 3-1 to seventh seed LSU as SEC pitcher of the year Kelsey Nunley from Soddy-Daisy was greeted by a three-run homer when entering the game in the fifth inning. LSU plays Tennessee in a semifinal today.
Baseball
– Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan College rebounded from a 1-0 Tuesday loss to win the Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball tournament with an 11-2 win over Union (Ky.) and a 3-1 defeat of Point on Thursday in Kingsport, Tenn. TWC (44-12), ranked fifth in the NAIA, beat Union 16-7 Wednesday night as Adrian Gonzalez doubled twice and drove in five runs, Alfred Cruz had two hits and scored four runs and Cody Stroud scored two and drove in three. TWC totaled 11 runs in the third and fourth innings and added four in the seventh. Chevis Hoover was 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Luis Estevez hit a two-run homer and Malik Stephens was 3-for-3 and scored a run in the Wednesday rematch. Reed Bright, Hoover and Chris Washington combined to pitch a six-hitter with 11 strikeouts against Point, when Pedro Barrios was 3-for-3 and scored a run, Gonzalez was 2-for-3 and Wardy Polanco, Paolo Montezuma and Stroud had first-inning RBIs. The Bulldogs will be back in Kingsport for a five-team NAIA opening-round double-elimination series May 17-20.
– The 2016 All-TCCAA baseball first team included catcher Danny Sirven and infielder Brandon Melendez from Chattanooga State and relief pitcher Matt Roueche and outfielder Devin Gardner of Cleveland State. Roueche is from Notre Dame High School. Second-team selections included pitchers Drew Korzybski of Cleveland State and Hugo Casilla of Chattanooga State and Chattanooga State’s Hunter Parker from East Hamilton and Motlow’s Spencer Mossburg from Silverdale Baptist Academy among the outfielders.
Wrestling
– UTC wrestlers John Lampe and Jared Johnson have been named to the CoSIDA Academic all-district team, making each eligible for Academic All-American honors. A senior 184-pounder this past season, Lampe graduated in 2015 with a 3.97 GPA and is working toward a master’s degree in education with a 4.0 GPA. He finished this season with a 20-7 record and led the Mocs with seven pins. The Mocs heavyweight with still a season of eligibility, Johnson graduated with honors last weekend with a degree in mechanical engineering and a 3.73 GPA. He finished the season with a 23-7 record and a No. 13 national ranking.
Tennis
– The fifth-ranked Dalton State College men’s tennis team will be in the NAIA national tournament that starts Tuesday in Mobile, Ala., and they are one of eight teams with first-round byes. The Roadrunners will face No. 12 Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) or No. 21 Marian (Ind.). “Both teams won their respective conference tournaments this year and were part of the national tournament last year. We have our work cut out for us,” said DSC coach Zack Rogers, whose team won the Southern States Athletic Conference regular season but yielded to No. 2-ranked Auburn-Montgomery for the tournament championship. No. 8 Coastal Georgia, No. 9 William Carey and No. 17 Mobile also will represent the SSAC. Undefeated Georgia Gwinnett is No. 1.