The Dalton State College men’s golf team shot a 287 Wednesday at Greenville, Alabama, and won its fifth consecutive Southern States Athletic Conference championship. The NAIA’s fourth-ranked Roadrunners won by 10 strokes with a 54-hole 860, and their Ben Rebne was the medalist at 208 with Sport Allmond tied for fourth at 216, Matthew Cleary seventh at 217 and Zach Womack tied for 10th at 220. Rebne, Cleary and Womack each shot a 70 in the final round.
» One day after completing her Southern Conference golf title, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Monica San Juan was honored as the league’s student-athlete of the week. Her 215 was the best total in eight SoCon tournaments at Hilton Head’s Moss Creek club, and she is an industrial engineering major with a 3.84 grade point average.
Baseball
» Keyshaun Smith was 3-for-4 with a home run, a triple, a double and three runs batted in as Lee University won 14-10 in NCAA Division II baseball Tuesday night at Tusculum. Alan Smith was 3-for-5 and Fernando Ortiz doubled and singled, each with two RBIs and two runs scored, for Lee (21-22). Flames pitcher Alex Butler from Baylor School was the Gulf South Conference freshman of the week for the third time in 2019. He allowed six hits and one earned run in 6 2/3 innings in a 5-2 win over third-ranked West Florida.
» The first three batters in the Bryan College lineup – Gabe Howell, Wade Weinburger and Lake Burris – totaled 11 hits, five homers and 10 RBIs as the 23rd-ranked Lions won 16-10 in an NAIA game Tuesday at Cumberland, and No. 4 batter Marcus Catalano was 2-for-4 with his 11th homer of the season. Burris has 22, including two Tuesday along with Weinburger. Weinburger was 4-for-7 and Burris 3-for-7, each with three RBIs, and Howell was 4-for-6 with four RBIs and three runs scored. Tucker Cain walked three times and had two RBIs for Bryan (30-12).
» Cleveland State begins its final home series of the season with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Thursday against Southwest Tennessee after beating Shorter’s junior varsity 12-1 Wednesday in Rome. Tucker Mendenhall had two hits, three RBIs and two runs, Lance Dockery and Rhett Baldwin each had a solo homer and another RBI, Andrew Carpenter also had two RBIs and Justin Morris and four relievers combined on a four-hitter. The Cougars’ Jonathan Hickman was the TCCAA pitcher of the week for his eight innings of two-hit shutout work Saturday at Volunteer State. He had seven strikeouts.
Softball
» Trying to beat expected bad weather, UTC has moved up its SoCon softball home series against Western Carolina to a doubleheader Thursday starting at 2 p.m. and a single game Friday at noon. A kids’ Easter egg hunt will be held during Friday’s game. UTC is 26-12, 4-5 in league play; WCU is 17-23, 4-7.
» Former East Hamilton and Chattanooga State player Brie Levy of first-place Truett McConnell was 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. That got the senior outfielder to .320 with five homers, a triple, eight doubles and 31 RBIs for the season.
Lacrosse
» Tennessee Wesleyan junior MiKayla Virden was the AAC women’s lacrosse offensive player of the week after totaling four goals and 13 assists in two games last week. She ended the regular season with 46 goals and 28 assists.
» Lee ended its lacrosse season with a 21-5 GSC loss Wednesday at Young Harris, but Shayna Ryan had four goals and an assist for the Lady Flames (4-12, 1-6). Hayley Bartlett had four goals and two assists, Taylor Greenberg four goals and Erika Cross three goals and four assists for the Mountain Lions (9-6, 6-1), who led 13-1 at halftime.
Tennis
» Lee’s Micaela Belen Maiz was picked the GSC women’s tennis freshman of the week for the fourth time this semester after going 2-1 at No. 4 singles and 3-0 with two upset wins at No. 1 doubles with Asia Grzegrzolka.