Chad Pyke, who started at 165 pounds and went 21-10 for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga this past wrestling season, was on the Academic All-NWCA team announced Thursday by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Pyke is a graduate student from McDonough, Ga., who competed as a senior in 2017-18 and was a Southern Conference tournament runner-up. He had a 4.0 grade point average in his first semester in the MBA program, and he was honored as the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies scholar-athlete of the year at last week's Coca-Cola Scrappy Awards.
Tennis
» Rhys Milne and Jake Okines at No. 1 doubles provided an upset victory and the only team point as the Lee University men's tennis Flames lost 5-1 to second-seeded Valdosta State in the Gulf South Conference men's tournament quarterfinals Thursday at Montgomery, Ala. That left Lee 10-9 for the season. And the Lee women (8-9) fell 5-0 to Mississippi College, but Lady Flames junior Francesca Tondi earned all-conference honors for the third year in a row. She was a second-team selection after going 9-5 at No. 1 singles and 8-6 with Marta Garcia-Nieto at No. 1 doubles in the regular season. Milne was the final GSC men's player of the week for the regular season and at No. 52 became the first Lee player with an NCAA individual ranking. That was after he defeated No. 35 Peter Dahlin of Montevallo and No. 21 Eban Straker-Meads of Auburn-Montgomery last week.
Golf
» Dalton State All-American S.M. Lee is the NAIA national men's golfer of the week for the second time this season, and that didn't even include his 11-stroke win Wednesday with a 10-under-par 203 in the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament. He won the inaugural Roadrunner Classic last week with an 8-under 208. He has been picked for the United States team in the Palmer Cup international competition.
Baseball
» Seventh-seeded Sewanee outhit second-seeded host Rhodes in the opening round of the Southern Athletic Association baseball tournament Thursday but lost 6-3. That dropped the Tigers (12-21) into an elimination game against sixth seed Centre today in Memphis. Jared Demkowicz, Trey Akins and Chris McNulty each was 2-for-5 for Sewanee, McNulty with an RBI double and Demkowicz with a run scored. Riley Brandvold and Drew Mancuso also had RBIs. For Rhodes (25-13), Paul Giacomazzi was 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI and Zac Lange drove in two runs.
Softball
» Birmingham-Southern scored three runs in the first inning and went on to a 4-0 win over seventh seed Sewanee in the first day of the SAA softball tournament Thursday at Chattanooga's Warner Park. Savannah Lee was 2-for-2 and Kolyn Kyser 2-for-3, each with an RBI, and Jessica Perley and Haley Crumpton combined to pitch a three-hitter for BSC (27-13). Katie Roth, Caroline Sweetin and Taylor Wagner each was 1-for-3 for Sewanee (4-31), which plays Millsaps in the losers bracket today at 2 p.m. Centre beat Rhodes 3-0 and plays top-seeded Berry at noon, when BSC meets Hendrix, an 8-0 victor over Millsaps.
General
» Covenant College finished sixth out of 17 schools in the 2017-18 USA South Presidents Cup overall standings for athletic success. That is the second consecutive sixth place for the Lookout Mountain school, which was third this year in the women's standings and sixth out of the 12 men's teams. Piedmont was first in the women's list and overall, where men's winner Methodist was second with Maryville third.