Led by a 5-under-par 66 from Luke Long, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team surged Tuesday to a third-place finish of 874 for 54 holes in the Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate tournament at Nashville’s Richland Country Club. Rice won at 860, and host Lipscomb was second in the 14-team field at 865. Also in UTC’s final-round 286, Will Porter shot 72, Etienne Brault 73 and Lake Johnson 75. Long finished fifth individually at 213, Johnson tied for 12th at 219, Porter shared 22nd at 223 and Andrew Weathers shot 226.
» The UTC women’s golfers shot a 305 Tuesday in the Brickyard Collegiate at Macon, Ga., and finished seventh out of 14 teams at 916. The Mocs’ Monica San Juan tied for 17th individually at 225, and Cristina Perez, Holly Morgan and Megan Woods shot 230, 231 and 232. Vanderbilt was the team winner at 869.
» Mike Nance of Calhoun and Dalton Golf & Country Club is tied for fourth after the first day of stroke-play qualifying for the 2018 GSGA Senior Match Play Championship at the Savannah Golf Club. Nance and defending champion Wright Waddell shot 74s, two behind leader Jack Kearney of Broelinn GC. The low 16 players after today’s round will advance to match play.
Tennis
» The UTC women’s tennis team edged visiting Mercer 4-3 in a Southern Conference match Tuesday. UTC (9-6, 4-2) won the doubles point with two victories and then got wins at Nos. 4-6 singles from Tamri Chalaganidze, Emma Van Hee and Bogdana Zaporozhets to seal the team triumph. Freshmen Van Hee and Zaporozhets also had won in doubles with senior Samantha Caswell and junior Caroline Hall.