Lee University’s Christian Noble finished fifth Friday night in the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Division II track and field meet at Kingsville, Texas, and fellow Flame Josiah Brooks was sixth in the triple jump and qualified with his twin, Justin Brooks, for two finals Saturday. The Brooks brothers both were in the top eight in the 200-meter preliminaries, and they, Jeremiah McCain and Siphosethu Boya had the third-best time (3:10.62) in 4×400 relay qualifying. Noble, who won his steeplechase heat Thursday, ran an 8:58.22 in the final.
Softball
» Chattanooga State wound up 1-2 in the 2019 NJCAA Division I softball tournament in St. George, Utah – eliminated after 1 a.m. EDT Friday by Indian Hills, 11-9, despite a remarkable comeback effort. The Lady Tigers were 43-10 for the season. Madison Crabtree, whose three-run homer had keyed their win over Lake Land, homered again and was 2-for-2 with five RBIs against Indian Hills, which posted four-run innings in the third and fourth. Down 10-2, Chattanooga State avoided being run-ruled when Crabtree followed Haley Smith’s fifth-inning walk with a homer. Then Breanna Vinson doubled in a run with one out in the sixth, an error and Smith being hit by a pitch loaded the bases and Crabtree cleared them with a two-out double. Indian Hills’ fourth homer of the game off pitchers Abby Wall and Brooke Parrott made the score 11-8, but Shelby Penning began the bottom of the seventh with a walk and Lauren Hamby doubled her home. The game ended with Lady Tigers on third and second. Hamby was 2-for-3 and Vinson was 2-for-4 and scored twice.
Tennis
» Sewanee’s Catherine Owen ended her sophomore tennis season Friday with a 7-6, 6-3 loss to Mary Cardone of Southwestern (Texas) in the round of 32 at the NCAA Division III singles tournament at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cardone is 17-1; Owen finished 11-7 in singles in 2019.
Golf
» Cleveland State’s Colbe Cagle tied for 62nd out of 132 golfers in the NJCAA Division II men’s tournament at Plymouth, Indiana, with a four-day total of 317. He closed with a 73 on Friday. Walters State was second to South Mountain as a team, led by individual runner-up Alex Hodge’s 286.
Baseball
» The No. 1-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team (52-9) will play eighth-seeded Indiana Tech in the 6 p.m. EDT game Saturday at the 10-team Avista NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho. Indiana Tech (42-14-1) edged Bellevue (Nebraska) 3-2 in 10 innings in the Series opener Friday.