Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Ga., finished fifth Sunday in the FLW Tour bass fishing tournament at the Harris Chain of Lakes in Florida. Gross was sixth going into the 10-angler final round, but he moved up with a haul of 14 pounds, 9 ounces while catching his daily limit of five in the final round. He totaled 69-15 in the four-day event to win $19,000. Chris Johnston of Petterborough, Ontario, won $100,200 with a total of 79-6, and he was followed by fellow Canadian Jeff Gustafson (77-7) of Keewatin, Ontario, John Hunter (75-13) of Shelbyville, Ky., and Glenn Browne (73-15) of Ocala, Fla.
Track & Field
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Emily Poole was eighth in the 5000-meter run and the 4×400-meter relay team also scored Sunday as the Mocs finished eighth in the Southern Conference indoor meet in Lexington, Va. UTC’s Sophia Neglia scored in the 3000 run Saturday with an eighth-place finish that earned her SoCon all-freshman status. Samford’s Selena Popp from Baylor School repeated her pentathlon championship and also won the separate long jump, both with facility records. Her 4,118 points in the pentathlon smashed her meet record of 3,779 from last year and included wins in four of the five events and a second in the other.
Softball
» Sewanee lost 17-0, 15-2 and 10-2 at 19th-ranked Berry in Southern Athletic Association games Saturday. Jackie O’Reilly was 1-for-2 with an RBI in the second game, and Rachel Hoffman and Caroline Sweetin each matched that in game three for the Tigers. They split a doubleheader Sunday against Georgia’s Wesleyan College in Macon, winning 8-2 and losing 4-1. In the victory, Katie Bender and Sweetin each went 3-for-4 – Bender with two RBIs and Sweetin with a double, an RBI and two runs – Hoffman was 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Taylor Wagner was 2-for-3 with a walk and Jackie O’Reilly doubled and was the winning pitcher. In the loss, Hoffman and Miranda Townsend each had two hits, with one of Hoffman’s an RBI double, as the Tigers dropped to 1-6 overall. The games at Berry were their first this year in SAA play.