The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga moved up Monday to second place, three shots out of first, with Monica San Juan taking a six-stroke individual lead in the 2019 Southern Conference women’s golf tournament at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Furman, the three-time reigning champion, is at 598 going into the final round at Moss Creek Golf Club, and UTC is at 601 with Mercer at 603 and East Tennessee State fourth at 607 out of nine teams. San Juan carded a 2-under-par 70 for a 141 with Furman’s Natalie Srinivasan second at 147. The Mocs’ Kirsty Beckwith shot a 72 and is tied for eighth at 151, while Rheagan Hall is tied for 13th at 152 and Esme Hamilton shares 25th at 157.
* The UTC men’s golfers finished Monday’s two rounds in seventh place at 571 (287-284) in the 15-team Old Waverly Collegiate tournament at West Point, Mississippi. The Mocs’ Oliver Simonsen and Connor Nolan are tied for 16th individually at 3-under 141, and Will Porter, Dominic Jones and Etienne Brault shot 146, 147 and 148. Louisiana-Monroe leads the team standings at 554, and Vanderbilt, Mississippi and Arkansas-Little Rock follow at 561, 562 and 563. Middle Tennessee State is fifth at 566, two strokes ahead of host Mississippi State.
* Lee University leads the Gulf South Conference women’s golf tournament and is fourth in the men’s event after the second rounds Monday at Mobile, Alabama. The Lady Flames have a 11-shot lead at 612 with Haverly Harrold the individual leader at 148, Emily Felix sixth at 154 and Carson McKie seventh at 155. The Flames are at 594, one shot out of a tie for second behind West Florida’s 581, with Scott Odell tied for second individually after two 71s, Evan Spence tied for seventh at 147 with Parker Gray and Dylan Lillard tied for 20th and 25th.
* Ben Rebne and his Dalton State team both are comfortably in first place after the first round Monday of the Southern States Athletic Conference men’s tournament at the Robert Trent Jones course at Cambrian Ridge in Greenville, Alabama. Rebne shot a 6-under 66 to pace the NAIA’s fourth-ranked Roadrunners’ 287, which was 15 strokes clear of second-place William Carey. DSC’s Sport Allmond is tied for second at 71, and Zach Womack is eighth at 74 with Eli Hendricks tied for 12th at 76.
Auto Racing
* Tom Pullam of Adairsville, Georgia, won the Super Pro class in rain-delayed drag racing Saturday at Brainerd Motorsports Park. Pullam won with a 5.0-second run on a 4.98 dial in his Undercover dragster, and Ringgold’s Hugh Harris was second with a 4.63 run – the lowest elapsed time of the meet – on a 4.64 dial. Josh Ayers won the Sportsman class with a 7.55 on a 7.50 in a 1985 Pontiac Firebird; Jimmy Harmon was second in a 1978 Plymouth. Brian Argas of Loudon won the No-Box class with a 6.10 on a 6.10, with Ray Zumstein second with a 6.84 on a 6.85. Tia Gozus of Dayton won the 24-entry Junior Dragster eliminations with Joan Varner of Temple, Georgia, second.
Baseball
* Sewanee leadoff batter Riley Brandvold was chosen the Southern Athletic Association baseball player of the week after going 7-for-15 (.467) with three home runs and a double in the Tigers’ three-game sweep of Millsaps that set a new high for the program of 21 wins in a season. He batted in five runs and scored five and has 43 runs and 25 RBIs with a .328 average for the season.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee senior goalkeeper Brianna Young was selected the SAA women’s lacrosse defensive player of the week after making 18 saves in a 19-8 defeat of Centre. She had 15 saves on 18 first-half shots and has a league-high .538 saves percentage. The Tigers (12-6, 5-1) will host an SAA tournament semifinal at 4 p.m. EDT Saturday against Centre or Oglethorpe.
Pickleball
* Katie Dyer of Ooltewah helped win two divisions of a pickleball tournament this past weekend in Owensboro, Kentucky. Dyer teamed for gold medals with Kasandra Gehrke of St. Louis in women’s doubles and with Dave Weinbach of Wisconsin in mixed doubles.