Lee University won the Gulf South Conference women’s golf tournament for the second year in a row Tuesday and tied for fourth in the men’s event. Both were at Mobile, Alabama. Closing with a 301 on the Magnolia Grove course, the Lady Flames won by 18 strokes with a 54-hole 913. Lee’s Haverly Harrold was second individually at 10 over par, one shot out of first, and freshmen Emily Felix and Carson McKie were fourth and sixth with Annika Gino 15th and Judianne Speach 20th. For the Lee men, who totaled 891 – seven behind seven-in-a-row champion West Florida – juniors Scott Odell and Evan Spence were fourth and fifth and all-tournament at 217 and 218 and Dylan Lillard and Parker Gray tied for 19th at 228.
* Led Tuesday by Sport Allmond’s 4-under 68, Dalton State maintained a double-digit lead in the Southern States men’s golf tournament at Greenville, Alabama. The Roadrunners are 13 strokes ahead in a quest for a fifth straight league title. Allmond moved within a stroke of teammate and fellow Heritage High School alumnus Ben Rebne, whose 138 leads the medalist chase. Matthew Cleary, the reigning SSAC golfer of the week for his play in the Roadrunner Classic, shot a 70 and is tied for sixth, and Zach Womack is tied for 12th going into the final round.
* Sewanee’s men finished third at 861 out of 16 teams in the Rhodes College Spring Classic at the Windyke Country Club in Memphis, led by Tommy Oliver’s fifth-place 211 and Nic Vandeventer’s 13th-place 215.
Baseball
* Covenant won 8-2 and 19-9 in USA South baseball games Monday at Brevard and lost 8-6 in a nonconference home contest Tuesday against Berry. Monday, Brooks DuBose hit a grand slam, Lewis Saunders was 2-for-2 with a homer and Alex Gonzalez had two hits and two RBIs in support of Jackson Heuer’s first-game pitching, and the second game featured 19 Scots hits, but no homers, and a tiebreaking nine-run sixth inning. Jonah Carignan was 3-for-6 with four RBIs, John Mitchell was 4-for-6 with a triple and three RBIs, Tommy Easley was 3-for-4 with three doubles and three runs scored, Gonzalez was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and three runs, DuBose had three runs and two RBIs, Saunders was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs and CJ Edmond plated the first two runs with a triple. Tuesday for the Scots (14-20), Mitchell was 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs and Hunter Christian was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Softball
* Former East Hamilton and Chattanooga State player Brie Levy of first-place Truett McConnell was selected the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball player of the week for her 11-for-19 (.579) batting with a home run, eight RBIs and six runs scored last week. The senior outfielder is hitting .320 with five homers, a triple, eight doubles and 31 RBIs for the season.
* The Covenant softball team (11-22, 6-10) is seeded fifth from the USA South’s West Division and will play two games Thursday, starting at 1 p.m., and another if necessary Friday at West No. 2 Piedmont in the first round of the league tournament. The six winners of best-of-three series this weekend will move on to double-elimination play April 26-28 at LaGrange, Georgia.