Wes Gosselin’s career-low tournament score secured a share of a runner-up finish and led the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team to a share of third place in the Furman Intercollegiate on Sunday. Gosselin finished at 10-under 206 in the 54-hole event, closing with a 68, and the Mocs finished at 9-under 855 after a 286 for the final round. Etienne Brault closed with a 72 and Brooks Thomas and Stuart Thomas each shot a 73. Brooks Thomas tied for 27th at 216, while Brault and Stuart Thomas tied for 34th, one stroke back of Brooks Thomas. Clemson won the team title at 29-under 835, with South Carolina-Aiken second at 15-under 849. UTC shared second with former Southern Conference member Georgia Southern. Gosselin tied Wofford’s Andrew Novak, who closed with a 73. Clemson’s Carson Young got better each day and wrapped up his winning score, 11-under 205, with a 67.
Softball
* UTC lost 9-2 Sunday at Mercer in the deciding game of the initial Southern Conference series of the season for both teams. Mercer scored three runs each in the first and fourth innings plus one in the second and two in the third before Amanda Beltran’s fifth-inning home run, her fourth this season, ended the shutout. The Mocs (10-22, 1-2) added their final run in the same inning when Hayleigh Weissenbach was hit by a pitch with one out, advanced to third on a wild pitch and single by Maddy Adams, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Aly Walker. Mercer (16-20, 2-1) outhit the Mocs 13-6. Celie Hudson (1-1) pitched the first four innings for UTC, allowing 10 hits and four walks with one strikeout; Alex Connell worked the final two allowing three hits.
* Sydney West and Courtney Petty pitched four-hit shutouts as Bryan College won 8-0 and 4-0 in its Appalachian Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday at Columbia (S.C.) College. Becca Zimmerman was 3-for-3 with a three-run home run and another RBI for the Lady Lions (14-12, 8-0) in the first game, when Aubrie Osborne was 2-for-3 with a two-run single and Ashley Brown and Kaleigh Riley each also had two hits. Hannah O’Shields hit a three-run homer in the second game and had two hits, along with Heidi Smith, Kim Borowski and Kayla Hayes.
Track & Field
* UTC junior Hannah Chamblin finished second in the women’s 800-meter run Saturday in the Emory Classic track and field meet in Atlanta. Chamblin’s time was 2:15.38, and freshman teammate Abby Bateman was eighth out of 62 runners.
* Lee University’s Christian Noble won the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase by more than three seconds in the Raleigh (N.C.) Relays that included NCAA Division I athletes this past weekend, and his 9:02.34, Audrey Smith’s 10:48.13 in the women’s steeplechase and Harold Smith’s 10th-place 1:52.29 in the 800 were provisional qualifying times for the Division II outdoor nationals. Noble’s time is the fastest in DII so far this season, and Audrey Smith’s is the women’s sixth-fastest. She was 14th overall at Raleigh.
* Kristopher Potts-Howard from Tullahoma and T.J. Davis from Ooltewah High School were among the Carson-Newman University athletes with Division II national provisional distances Saturday at Tennessee’s Rust Buster. Potts-Howard’s personal-record 7.44-meter long jump was second overall, and Davis was fourth with a 7.27. CNU’s Tiana Mills from Chattanooga’s Girls Preparatory School was sixth in the women’s triple jump.
* Among a bunch of personal bests for Division III Covenant College track and field athletes at the weather-shortened Falcon Classic hosted by Division II member Montevallo, Gracie Holbrook was seventh overall in the 3000-meter steeplechase, and Kyle Delk, Mason Gregoire, Ari Zorns and Berto Dryden were seventh in the men’s 4×100 relay.