After defeating the No. 1 seed Thursday in the USA South baseball tournament, eighth seed Covenant College ended its season Friday with 11-1 and 17-10 losses to North Carolina Wesleyan and Greensboro College.
CJ Edmond was 2-for-2 with three walks and the RBI for the Scots (17-22) against NCWC (24-14), when Alex Gonzalez was 2-for-3 and Tyler Moore doubled and singled and scored the run. Lewis Saunders was 4-for-5 with a triple, a double and three runs against Greensboro (20-17), and he matched John Mitchell, Edmond and Brooks DuBose with two RBIs. Mitchell was 3-for-6 and Moore was 2-for-4.
» Birmingham-Southern 11, Sewanee 10: At Birmingham in one of two pods of the Southern Athletic Association tournament, the No. 2 seed nipped the seventh-seeded Tigers on an error in the ninth inning – after Sewanee (21-18) could not score with runners on third and second and one out in the top half.
Sewanee’s Riley Brandvold was 3-for-5 with a three-run home run, a double and two runs scored, and Trey Akins and Chris McNulty each had two hits and scored twice. Bryce Benedict had a two-run hit that tied the score at 10.
» Bryan 22, Montreat 4: At Dayton, Wade Weinburger and Gabe Howell each was 3-for-5 with a homer and three RBIs, scoring four and three runs, as the NAIA’s 23rd-ranked Lions began their final regular-season series with an Appalachian Athletic Conference rout.