University of Tennessee pitcher Ashley Rogers, the former Meigs County High School ace, was included this past week on the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I freshman of the year Top 25 list – the fifth Lady Volunteer to make the list in six years. After 34-9 Tennessee’s 6-2 loss and 7-6 victory Saturday at Georgia, in which she took the loss and got the win in relief, Rogers is 17-3 with two saves, a 1.87 earned run average and 154 strikeouts in 131 1/3 innings.
» Claudia Jones drove in five runs with two home runs and Stevie Baird hit a three-run homer as Lee University completed a Gulf South Conference softball series sweep of visiting Montevallo with a 12-7 win Saturday. Also for the Lady Flames (22-28, 10-16), Kayla Louie was 3-for-4 and scored twice, Zoe Miller scored four times, Kiley Longmire was 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI, Lily Hatcher was 2-for-4 and Taylor De Adder had two RBIs.
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» Fernando Ortiz and Justin Fragale each doubled twice and batted in three runs as Lee won 16-6 Saturday in the final game of its GSC home series with Montevallo. Ortiz was 3-for-3 and matched winning pitcher Thomas Zazzaro and Miguel Pimentel with three runs scored. Zazzaro and Pimentel, who homered, each was 1-for-2 with four and three walks, and Parker Stahlman had two hits and two runs for Lee (22-24, 11-14). Sebastian Samuels homered twice and drove in three runs for the Falcons (19-25, 15-12).
» Covenant edged North Carolina Wesleyan 7-6 on CJ Edmond’s no-out single in the 10th inning of their USA South game on Lookout Mountain. After Hunter Christian’s two-out, two-run single in the ninth tied the score for the Scots (16-20, 9-13), Andrew Brock opened the bottom of the 10th with a double and John Mitchell walked ahead of Edmond’s second hit of the game. Brock, Mitchell, Donny Lewis and Christian also had two apiece, Brooks DuBose tripled in two runs and Brock and Lewis Saunders each scored twice. Trey Croom was 3-for-5 with a homer and three RBIs for NCWC (22-14, 12-9).