The Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team is 27-6 after winning 5-1 and 6-3 Wednesday at Cumberland (20-12). Irving Martin pitched a four-hitter with eight strikeouts in the first game, when Shamoy Christopher hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning and Anthony Williams walked twice and scored twice. Williams had a three-run homer in the first inning of the second game, and Max Draijer added a two-run blast in the fifth and a sacrifice fly in the seventh. Manny Perez was the winning pitcher, allowing one run; Jerry Ochoa got a three-inning save. TWU senior Philip Sieli was the AAC pitcher of the week for his no-hitter against Montreat.
Softball
* The Covenant College softball team lost 12-5 and 4-3 in eight innings at home to Birmingham-Southern on Tuesday and lost 7-4 and won 9-8 in USA South games Wednesday at Agnes Scott. Tuesday, Cassee Wood hit a three-run homer and Kirsten Aanensen and Shelby Ralston each had two hits, an RBI and a run in the first loss to BSC (18-5), and Aanensen had a two-run pinch hit in the second, when Erika Mast and Cope Whitaker had two hits apiece. Wednesday for Covenant (8-15, 3-3), Mast was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, Ralston also was 2-for-4 and Aileen Hill was 2-for-3 and scored twice in the loss, and in the win Wood was 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run, Faith Manning was 4-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs, Mast was 3-for-5 with a triple and three RBIs, Hill was 2-for-4 and Carlin Labuzan was 2-for-3 with two runs.
Golf/Track
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Monica San Juan was named the Southern Conference women’s golfer of the week, and junior Kennedy Thomson was the women’s track athlete of the week. San Juan tied for ninth individually at 220 in a strong field in Puerto Vallarta, where the Mocs were fourth as a team, and Thomson won the Emory Invitational’s 800-meter run.
Volleyball
* UTC is holding its annual spring volleyball tournament Saturday in a new campus location, the Aquatic and Recreation Center, beginning at 10 a.m. Included will be Belmont, Tennessee Tech, Kennesaw State, Carson-Newman and Lee, and admission is free and open to the public, as will be an April 4 exhibition against Lee in Maclellan Gymnasium. Travis Filar’s Mocs will conclude their spring competition on April 6 at Georgia Tech’s tournament.
* Cleveland State recently announced seven volleyball signees, making a class of 10. The new recruits include 6-foot-1 Cydney Brock, 5-9 Madeline Dasher and 5-5 Lydia Martin from Cleveland High School and 5-6 Josie Worley from Sequatchie County. Worley was the Dunlap school’s most valuable player last fall. The other new Lady Cougars are four-time all-region selection Stephanie Burke from Shiloh High in Atlanta and sisters Loryn and Tamia Wilson from Gibbs High near Knoxville.
Tennis
* Lee University’s Carley Sickinger was selected the Gulf South Conference women’s tennis player of the week for last week’s matches, and teammate Lisa Kirr and Lee men’s player Jesus Garcia repeated as freshmen of the week. Sickinger and Kirr were 3-0 together at No. 2 doubles – with two 6-0 wins against GSC foes – and each was 4-0 in singles. Garcia also was 4-0 in singles, at No. 2. He was part of a 7-0 win for the Flames (13-3) on Wednesday against visiting King.
* Sewanee junior Abbie Vaughn was chosen the Southern Athletic Association women’s tennis player of the week after going 3-0 in matches against fifth-ranked Williams College and Hope International. Vaughn won 6-4, 6-3 at No. 6 singles against Williams and won at No. 1 singles and 8-1 in doubles with Caroline Adams against Hope.
* The 12th-ranked Sewanee men won 6-3 over visiting Kalamazoo on Tuesday as Brandon Kali and Jack Metzger won 8-6 together in doubles and earned three-set singles wins. Andres Carro and Jack Gray prevailed 8-7 in doubles, and Jordan Brewer and Ryan Olps won 6-1, 6-1 and 6-4, 6-1 in singles for the Tigers (11-5).