The UTC men’s golfers are tied for seventh at 576 going into today’s last round in the 16-team Linger Longer Invitational at Eatonton, Ga. Luke Long led the Mocs on Monday with a 69 and is tied for 13th individually at 142, one shot better than Andrew Weathers. Lake Johnson and Oliver Simonsen are at 147, Etienne Brault at 148. Georgia and Alabama are the team leaders at 558 and 559.
» Dalton State’s No. 2-ranked NAIA women golfers are sixth going into today’s final round of the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate tournament at Sevierville Golf Club. The field includes seven NCAA Division I teams and third-place Carson-Newman from D-II. DSC’s Tia Teineketo is tied for 12th individually at 152, and Isabel Rijos, Caroline Griffin and Heather Nail are at 156, 160 and 162.
» Sewanee’s Meghan Symonds tied for eighth at 228 as the Tigers finished 13th out of 23 women’s teams at the Jekyll Island Collegiate. The Sewanee men tied for 20th out of 30 at 909 with Gray Matthews at 223, Tommy Oliver at 224 and Taylor Mottern at 226.
Swimming
» The Baylor Swim Club’s Ellie Waldrep finished fifth in the girls’ 100 backstroke at the 2018 National Club Swimming Association junior nationals last week in Orlando, Fla. The 53.51 seconds for the 15-year-old broke Arden Pitman’s Baylor School record and put Waldrep on the NCSA All-America team that will represent the United States in the Irish Open Long Course Championships in two weeks in Dublin. Waldrep finished sixth in the 50 backstroke in Orlando, and teammate Addison Smith was eighth in the 200 and 500 freestyles.
Track & Field
» The Lee University track and field teams set eight school records at the Georgia Tech Invitational this past weekend, and Josiah Brooks met provisional qualifying marks for the Division II national meet in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the triple jump. His second-place triple distance of 15.41 meters well exceeded the provisional standard of 14.63, and his second-place 200 time of 21.02 seconds and third-place 100 time of 10.50 are Lee records. Audrey Smith set a Lady Flames record with her runner-up 17:17.69 in the women’s 5000, and Caleb Eagleson set a Lee men’s 5000 record with his sixth-place 14:44.79. Camilla Sims set Lady Flames records with her fifth-place shot put of 12.27 meters and her 42.48 in the hammer throw, and Autumn Meek’s 39.13-meter discus throw and Kendra Irvine’s 3.25-meter pole vault also are program bests.
Baseball
» Sewanee freshman Justin Lavender was chosen the Southern Athletic Association baseball pitcher of the week for his 0.63 earned run average in 14 1/3 innings last week. He pitched eight shutout innings with three hits allowed against Covenant and yielded three hits again and one run in 6 1/3 innings against Birmingham-Southern.
» Bryan College junior David Scoggins ended teammate Fernando Garcia’s three-week run as Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the week by earning the honor for March 12-18. Scoggins batted .750 with 12 RBIs and seven runs scored in the 11th-ranked Lions’ 3-1 week. He hit three home runs and two doubles.
Lacrosse
» The Sewanee women’s lacrosse team completed a 3-0 visit to Georgetown, Texas, with a 19-0 rout of Puget Sound on Saturday and an 18-10 win over host Southwestern on Sunday. Phoebe Stirm, Catherine Crigler and Temple Moore scored three goals apiece and Grace Zechman had two goals and three assists against Puget Sound, while Grace Fulton had four draw controls, four ground balls and three caused turnovers. Sunday for the Tigers (9-3), Fulton won nine draw controls, Zechman had five assists with two goals and Brooke Winfield, Mary Kate Myers and Crigler netted three goals each.
» The Sewanee men lost 10-9 to Montclair State on Sunday at Port Washington, Pa. Hayden Hunt and Jake Vaughn each scored two goals, Hunt with an assist, for Sewanee (4-4). Bryce Womack made 10 saves in 47 minutes; Tal Wharton had three saves in 13 minutes.