Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan will play Reinhardt at 3 p.m. today in the Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s lacrosse tournament at Waleska, Ga., after the Lady Eagles defeated Point 17-5 on Thursday behind six goals from Gina Ives and four from Allyah Bryant, their two all-conference players. No. 2 seed Columbia (S.C.) will play third seed Cumberlands in the second semifinal. Senior Jasmine Hickman from TWU (11-4, 8-0) is the AAC offensive player of the year, and Casey Schaefer, Brittany Turner, Mikayla Virden, Margaret Waite, Emily Waldrop and goalkeeper Kelly Bilz joined her from the Lady Bulldogs on the all-conference team. Cumberlands’ Jessica Truelove from McMinn Central also was All-AAC, and Asbury’s Erin Garmany from Baylor School was a second-team selection. Those two and TWU’s Lauren McHugh made the Champions of Character team.
* Led by AAC player of the year Drew Wassenaar, Wesleyan finished in the top four of the AAC men’s standings and goes into the league tournament today in Knoxville as the fourth seed, facing Reinhardt (12-1, 6-0) at 7:30 p.m. at Blaine Stadium. TWU finished the regular season 5-8, 3-3 in the AAC, and Roderick Williams was second-team all-conference. Wassenaar, who also was the Bulldogs’ Champions of Character representative, led the AAC and is sixth in the NAIA with 48 goals and also has 13 assists.
Softball
* Lipscomb University beat the visiting University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team 12-0 in a five-inning nonconference game Thursday night. Aly Walker was 1-for-1 and J.J. Hamill was 1-for-2, each with a walk, for UTC (12-32), but no other Moc had a hit off McCarley Thomas. After taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning, Lipscomb (33-13) waited out a 37-minute rain delay and scored nine runs in the second with four hits and six walks. Kasey Gibson, Chloe Yeager and Khayla Green each drove in three runs, Green also scoring three, in the win, and Caitlin Plocheck and Destinee Brewer each was 2-for-3. The Mocs are off until playing Tuesday at Austin Peay.
* Bryan College won 4-1 and lost 1-0 on a ninth-inning home run in its AAC softball doubleheader at Truett McConnell. Olivia Gore had a two-run double and another RBI and Kim Borowski was 2-for-4 and scored twice in the win for Bryan (23-21, 15-5), when Sydney West pitched a five-hitter. Courtney Petty threw a three-hitter with seven strikeouts in the loss.