The host Cleveland State Lady Cougars were eliminated, but Chattanooga State advanced Saturday to the semifinals in the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII women’s basketball tournament. After beating sixth-seeded Southwest Tennessee 54-51, the third-seeded Lady Tigers (20-8) will play at 4 p.m. Monday against No. 2 seed Motlow State, which defeated Cleveland State 77-72. Top seed Walters State downed Volunteer State 58-47 and will play at 2 p.m. Monday against fourth-seeded Roane State, a 48-45 survivor against Jackson State. Sunday’s men’s quarterfinals match Walters against Roane at 2 p.m., Chattanooga State against Dyersburg State at 4, Motlow against Cleveland State at 6 and Southwest against Columbia State at 8. Ashlyan Baker led Chattanooga State’s scoring Saturday with 17 points, while Mackenzie Trouten scored 12 and Zikaya Wright pulled down 12 rebounds. Tamia Curry had 17 points and nine rebounds for the Lady Saluqis. Michaela Bennefield had 22 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists in a losing cause for Cleveland State (8-17), which got 11 and 10 points from Hannah Phillips and Britnay Gore and eight assists from Jordan Smith. For Motlow (19-11), Dominique Fields had 18 points and six assists, Janna Lewis and Starasia Bell-Freeman had 16 and 12 points and eight rebounds, Kaitlyn Thomas scored 14 points and Azhane Bacot collected 15 rebounds. Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu led Walters (26-4) with 17 points, 12 rebounds and four steals. Roane’s Adalys Brown and Jackson State’s Semajia Ogburn each scored 23 points in their game, Ogburn also totaling 12 rebounds.
» University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coaches Lamont Paris and Katie Burrows will be the guest speakers for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday, back at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. The March meeting is being held a week early because of the upcoming Southern Conference tournaments. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without, and parking costs $1.
Baseball
» Lee University won 17-1 and lost 4-3 against visiting Urbana in baseball Saturday. Fernando Ortiz doubled twice and drove in five runs and Miguel Pimentel was 4-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored in the win for the Flames (8-8), while Justin Fragale and Tyler Payne also had two RBIs each and Keyshaun Smith and Dalton Ney each scored three times. Randall Coxwell and four relievers held Urbana (1-5) to five hits. Cody Smith was 2-for-3 with an RBI for Lee in game two.
» Lake Burris hit three homers and batted in nine runs as Bryan College completed a sweep of its first Appalachian Athletic Conference series of 2019 with 10-5 and 6-2 home wins over St. Andrews. Gabe Howell was 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run and Logan Peterson was 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBIs for the Lions (14-4, 3-0) in the finale, when pitchers Joseph Cuomo and Dalton Ross combined on a five-hitter with 11 strikeouts. Stephen Chamblee was the first-game winner.
» Cleveland State opened TCCAA play a week and another day late but successfully with 6-5 and 3-2 home wins over Jackson State. Jonathan Hickman was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored in the first game and drove in Tucker Mendenhall with the winning run in the seventh inning of the rematch. Ethan Walls allowed just one earned run in six innings pitched. Mendenhall was 2-for-4 in the opener, when the Cougars won on an error in the seventh.
» Covenant lost 3-1 and 9-7 to Wheaton and is 7-3. Alex Gonzalez was 2-for-3 with a two-run triple and Brooks DuBose and John Mitchell had two-run doubles for the Scots in the second game, when Hunter Christian walked four times. Tyler Moore was 2-for-3 with their RBI in game one.
Lacrosse
» Despite six goals by Dariana Blanton, the Lee women’s lacrosse team lost 16-13 in its Gulf South Conference opener Saturday at Shorter. Becca Broadwick had three assists and a goal for the Lady Flames (3-1). For Shorter (2-4, 1-2), which used a 5-0 surge for a 16-12 lead, Armani Robinson scored four goals and Aubrey Geiger and had three each with two assists and one.
» The Sewanee women are 6-0 with a 102-21 goal differential this season after beating Piedmont 17-4 in their 2019 home opener Friday night. Brooke Winfield scored four goals and Grace Zechman and Anna Comer had three and two assists with two goals apiece for the Tigers.