Andy Morgan of Dayton, Tenn., took the lead in the second day of the FLW Tour bass tournament on the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wis., and Wesley Strader of Spring City is eighth. Morgan’s five fish totaling 14 pounds, 9 ounces gave him a total of 31-4 and a 4-ounce lead over Bryan Schmitt of Deale, Md. Strader’s total is 29-11 as the top 20 hit the river again today. Dayton’s Michael Neal finished 27th at 27-1.
Soccer
– The Chattanooga Football Club (0-1-1) hosts the Birmingham Hammers (1-1) in an NPSL Southeast Division game tonight at 7:30 at Finley Stadium. Tickets cost $7 through chattanoogafc.com or $9 at the gate.
Softball
– The Lee University softball season ended Friday with a 7-6 loss at West Florida in their NCAA Division II super regional. Lee (36-20) led the 10th-ranked Lady Argos (45-13) 4-0 before the hosts’ seven-run sixth inning. Abby McKinney was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Courtney Crawford also batted in two runs for the Lady Flames, who outhit UWF 9-6 but made four errors and gave up two unearned runs. Also for Lee, Kayla Louie was 2-for-2 with an RBI and two runs scored and Annabeth Pruett was 1-for-2 and scored twice.
Baseball
– Lee senior catcher Nate Wierzgac was one of five Gulf South players on the 14-man D-II All-South Region first team picked by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Wierzgac led the Flames regulars in the 2017 season with a .360 batting average, a .425 on-base percentage, a .663 slugging percentage, 11 home runs, 39 runs scored, 39 batted in and a .972 fielding percentage and shared the lead with 11 doubles.
– Hunter Parker from East Hamilton and Chattanooga State was 6-for-9 with three RBIs as East Tennessee State won the first two games of its Southern Conference baseball series Thursday and Friday at VMI, 7-5 and 14-12. Former Cleveland State player Drew Korzybski was the winning pitcher with 3 2/3 innings of one-hit, one-run relief Thursday, and another ex-Cougar, Jammer Strickland, matched Parker in going 3-for-5 Friday. Strickland had a triple, two RBIs and two runs scored. Parker leads the Buccaneers (26-27, 8-15) with a .353 batting average.
Golf
– Dalton State tied for fourth place in the 16-team NAIA men’s golf national tournament that ended Friday at Silvis, Ill., and the Roadrunners’ S.M. Lee – a finalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award – tied for fourth individually with his 294 and made the all-tournament team. He also was honored as the NAIA Phil Mickelson outstanding freshman for 2017. The Roadrunners shot 1,220 for 72 holes as a team, sharing fourth with William Woods behind Grand View (1,197), Cardinal Stritch (1,202) and Texas Wesleyan (1,205). DSC’s Dalton Johnson tied for 17th at 302, and P.J. Shields and Chase Cole totaled 310 and 314.
– Lee University moved up from a tie for ninth to seventh with a 317 in the third round of the 12-team NCAA Division II women’s golf tournament Friday at Findlay (Ohio) Country Club. The Lady Flames are at 959, two shots behind sixth-place Henderson State and 38 behind first-place Barry. Lee’s Caroline Moore and Sam Burrus are tied for 17th and 34th individually at 234 and 240 after 79s Friday, and Anne Hedegaard (82) and Haverly Harrold (78) also are in the top 52 at 243 and 244.
– Three-time champion David Noll Jr. of Dalton and Cres Dodd of Calhoun are among four golfers one stroke back of the first-place 6-under-par 66 shot by Macon’s Jon Kennedy in the first round Friday of the 2017 Georgia Mid-Amateur at Cartersville Country Club. Vance Embry of Dalton carded a 73. The tournament ends Sunday.