The Lee University softball team battled visiting North Georgia, ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II, throughout Tuesday’s doubleheader and won the second game 8-7. UNG (28-8) won the first game 3-0 on a three-hitter by Kylee Smith (16-1) and with three unearned runs in the second inning off Shonna Penney, who pitched a four-hitter. But Smith came into the second game with two outs, the bases loaded and the score tied in the seventh and hit Claudia Jones with a pitch to give Lee (15-19) the win. That was the Lady Flames’ second run of the inning after UNG scored four in the top half. Kayla Louie, who began Lee’s rally with a single, was 2-for-4 with three RBIs in the game, Jones was 2-for-2 with a triple and two runs scored, and Kiley Longmire was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs. Kaylee Womack had three RBIs for UNG, and Hobby Gregory scored three runs after driving in two in game one.
* Ashlyn Holland went 5-for-6 with a home run and five RBIs as Chattanooga State’s 15th-ranked softball team won 10-6 and 10-2 in five innings Tuesday at Gordon State. Brooke Parrott and Rilee King were the winning pitchers, and Madi Morris and Breanna Vinson took turns going 2-for-3 with a two-run homer. Haley Smith doubled and singled in the first game, when Holland was 3-for-4 with her homer and three RBIs.
* Bryan College lost 5-2 and 7-1 in Appalachian Athletic Conference softball Tuesday at Reinhardt. Austyn Durham was 3-for-4 with an RBI and Hannah O’Shields was 2-for-4 and scored a run in the first game for Bryan (9-21, 6-10), and Heidi Smith was 2-for-4 with the RBI in the second game. Emma Adams was 5-for-7 with a homer, a double and seven RBIs in the two games for Reinhardt (18-11, 9-3).
Baseball
* Miguel Pimentel went 3-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored in Lee’s 8-3 home baseball win over Tusculum, and Alan Smith and Cody Smith each had two hits and three RBIs for the Flames (16-15). They used nine pitchers in their fifth consecutive win.
* Bryan College defeated visiting Martin Methodist 10-3 with four RBIs from Marcus Catalano in NAIA baseball Tuesday. He had a three-run home run in the Lions’ six-run eighth inning. Logan Peterson also homered for Bryan, and Tyler Scott and Lake Burris each had two hits. Burris and Wade Weinburger scored two runs each.
* An eight-run third inning propelled Covenant College to a 9-4 victory over Sewanee on Lookout Mountain. Brooks DuBose was 2-for-3 and hit a three-run homer for the Scots (10-12) in that third inning, which he began with a walk, and Tommy Easley was 2-for-4 with a two-run triple. John Mitchell also had a two-run hit, and CJ Edmond homered and scored two runs. For Sewanee (16-10), Braxton Swanson was 3-for-4 and Riley Brandvold had two RBIs and stretched his hitting streak to 13 games.
* Cleveland State’s Cougars won 2-0 and lost 10-3 against the Piedmont junior varsity in Demorest, Georgia. Seth Wicker and Brock Browning combined to pitch a three-hit shutout with eight strikeouts in the first game, when Lance Dockery was 3-for-3 and scored on an error and Kendall Catlett drew an RBI walk. Alex Coulter was 2-for-2 with a two-run single for the Cougars (15-11) in their loss.
Golf
* The NAIA’s fourth-ranked Dalton State women’s golfers completed their third consecutive tournament win Tuesday, this one by 17 strokes at 627 for two days in the TWU Spring Invitational at the Tennessee National course at Loudon. The Lady Roadrunners’ Hannah Gasaway, Haejin Choe and Katelyn Skiffen (playing as an individual) tied for third at 155, while Isabel Rijos was eighth at 160 and Katie Dalton and Cameron Daniel shared 12th at 162. Host Tennessee Wesleyan was fifth in the nine-team field at 666, led by individual runner-up Ryann McCuistion at 153. Bryan’s Krista Reinhardt and DSC’s Sutton Rollins tied for 18th at 166.