Jumping to a five-run lead in its first at-bat Monday, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga completed a three-game softball sweep of Eastern Kentucky with a 5-2 win at Jim Frost Stadium. Amanda Beltran’s grand slam highlighted the opening barrage for the Mocs (11-1), and Sidney Swantic and Aly Walker were 4-for-4 and 3-for-4 while Emma Sturdivant was 2-for-2 and walked twice. UTC starting pitcher Allison Swinford (3-0) scattered eight hits through five innings, and Mariah Ramirez pitched two hitless innings for her first collegiate save. UTC is 8-0 against Ohio Valley Conference teams this season.
* Lee University lost 4-2 and 5-4 in Gulf South Conference softball at West Alabama, but Taylor De Adder was 5-for-7 withh three doubles, two runs and an RBI in the doubleheader for the Lady Flames (7-10, 1-4). Lily Hatcher and Kayla Louie each was 2-for-4 in game two, Hatcher scoring twice, and Bailey Church had two RBIs.
Golf
* The UTC men’s golfers are 12th out of 15 teams at 604 going into Tuesday’s final round of Auburn’s Tiger Invitational at Opelika, Alabama. Oliver Simonsen leads the Mocs at 4-over-par 148, tied for 23rd individually. Lake Johnson, Connor Nolan and Etienne Brault are at 151, 152 and 153. Simonsen triple-bogeyed his third hole Monday on the Grand National Lake Course but bounced back with seven birdies for a 69. Auburn leads the team standings by nine strokes with a 573.
Baseball
* Lee’s baseball team won 5-1 at West Alabama behind Alex Butler’s and Randall Coxwell’s pitching but lost 7-5 in the second game of the GSC doubleheader Monday. Butler (2-0) allowed four hits in five innings, Coxwell none in his four-inning save. Thomas Zazzaro was 6-for-8 with three RBIs for the Flames (7-6, 3-2), who got two hits each from Fernando Ortiz and Parker Stahlman and two RBIs from Justin Fragale in the win. Fragale and Ryan Beamish each was 2-for-4 in game two.
* Covenant College won 4-2 and 3-2 at Maryville in both teams’ USA South openers. Tyler Moore was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Hunter Christian doubled in two runs and Alex Gonzalez scored two for Covenant (7-1) in the first game, when Andrew Cline (2-0) allowed two hits and an unearned run and struck out six batters in 6 2/3 innings. Matt Reitz (2-1) allowed four hits and two unearned runs in his six innings in game two; C.J. Edmond and John Mitchell had RBIs.
* Sewanee is 7-1 after beating Carroll 9-2 to complete a three-game sweep. Riley Brandvold was 3-for-3 with a home run, a double, two RBIs and two runs for the Tigers, while Trey Akins scored three and Chris McNulty and Tyler Dunbar each drove in two. Starting pitcher Jared Demkowicz allowed both runs in his five innings, but one was unearned.
* Chattanooga State’s diamond Tigers are 6-4 after beating the Union College junior varsity 14-3 and 7-0 on Monday at the Lakepoint Complex at Emerson, Georgia.
Tennis
* The UTC women’s tennis Mocs extended their winning streak to seven matches with a 5-2 home victory Monday over UT-Martin. UTC (7-2) lost the doubles point but got singles wins from Bogdona Zaporozhets, Caroline Hall, Delaney Edwards, Emma Van Hee and Anna Didkovskaya.
Basketball
* Sewanee’s first NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament game in 21 years will be Friday against Guilford College at the school in Greensboro, North Carolina. Emory (20-5) and Wittenberg (23-5) will play the other first-round game on the 21-7 Quakers’ court, where Friday’s winners will meet Saturday with a round-of-16 spot at stake. Sewanee is 22-6 and making its fifth nationals appearance.