Sewanee will play Sunday for the Southern Athletic Association men’s lacrosse tournament championship after edging Berry 18-17 in overtime Friday in Memphis. After outscoring the Vikings (11-4) 6-2 in the fourth quarter, the Tigers (8-6) won on Pat DiMento’s goal from a Will Pratt assist. DiMento also scored the first goal of the match and totaled six, with Peter Brown adding three goals and two assists and Thomas Lynde, Jimmy Parker and Cameron Acuff scoring two goals each. Selby Austin made nine saves.
Golf
– Lee University’s Shea Sylvester and Matt Johnson are first-team All-Gulf South Conference men’s golf selections with Corey Sheppard and Adam Wright on the second team, and Lady Flames juniors Sam Burrus and Caroline Moore are women’s first-teamers with freshmen Annika Gino and Anne Hedegaard on the second team. Sylvester and Burrus are repeat All-GSC first-team picks, and Moore was a 2016 second-teamer. Senior Sylvester and sophomore Johnson were all-tournament in the 2017 league event.
– David Noll Jr. of Dalton and partner Mike Nance of Calhoun are tied for third at 7-under-par 64 after the first round Thursday of the Georgia Four-Ball Championship at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta.
Softball
– Second-seeded Bryan College was eliminated Friday from the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball tournament in Kingsport with a 13-inning 4-3 loss to sixth seed Truett McConnell, and fourth seed Tennessee Wesleyan lost 6-5 to top seed Reinhardt but then beat Truett 5-0. Rachel Mathews pitched a six-hitter, Baylee Sutton hit a three-run home run and Alyssa King had a two-run single in the win for TWU (22-15), after Sutton went 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs also against Reinhardt. Calli Cross was 2-for-3 and scored a run in that game that started early Thursday afternoon. Kim Borowski, Heidi Smith and Becca Zimmerman each was 2-for-6 for Bryan (23-24), the first two with an RBI apiece in the three-run second inning.
– Katie Pritchett from Heritage High hit the three-run homer that ended top-seeded Carson-Newman’s 11-3 South Atlantic Conference tournament win over Coker on Friday. The Eagles are 41-11.
– Brenau, ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, improved to 50-5 with 5-2 and 2-1 wins over Coastal Georgia and No. 2 seed William Carey in the Southern States tournament Friday at Decatur, Ala. Catcher Savannah Moore from Soddy-Daisy was 1-for-3 and scored a run against Coastal and was 2-for-3 with a sixth-inning two-run single against Carey for the Golden Tigers.
Baseball
– Tennessee Wesleyan lost 6-5 and won 13-2 in AAC baseball Friday at Bluefield. Pedro Barrios was 3-for-4 and matched Adrian Gonzalez (1-for-2) with two RBIs in the loss for the Bulldogs, and Cody Erickson was 3-for-5 with a homer and four RBIs, Dan Ward was 3-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs and three runs and Malik Stephens was 2-for-4 with three RBIs in the win.
– Sewanee made nine errors in losing 17-2 to Berry in the SAA tournament in Birmingham. Ryan Poole was 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Tigers (18-22), who play in the losers bracket today. Sewanee junior pitcher and first baseman Drew Mancuso was the All-SAA first-team utility player for the season, while shortstop Trey Akins and relief pitcher Jackson Cook were second-team selections and Max Murray and Jackson Cooper received honorable mention.
– An eight-run sixth inning helped Jackson State win 13-0 in its TCCAA series opener Friday at Cleveland State. Jordan Ransom and Sean McDermott each had two hits in defeat.
Fishing
– Wesley Strader from Spring City and Andy Morgan from Dayton each earned $10,000 in this week’s FLW Tour bass tournament on Beaver Lake in Arkansas. Strader finished 21st with 21 pounds, 8 ounces for two days, and Morgan was 29th with 20-3.