Former professional golfer Ryan Heisey has joined the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's coaching staff after serving the past year as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, UNC Greensboro. He is Mark Guhne's first full-time assistant since 2012. "Ryan's experience is invaluable," Guhne said in a release. "He was a very good player in our league and knows what it takes to be successful. He played several years professionally as well. He'll be a fantastic addition on and off the course." Heisey, the 2010 Southern Conference tournament runner-up, played three years in the PGA Latin America and Mackenzie (Canada) tours.
* UTC freshman Dorota Zalewska won the Polish Ladies Open Amateur Championship last week in her native country by six strokes, according to a school release. Her 54-hole 213 at Kalinowo began with a 69. She earlier finished second in the Polish Match Play in Prusice, third in the Faldo Series Poland Championship in Warsaw and sixth in the Slovak Amateur Championship. Another Mocs freshman, Rheagan Hall from Cleveland High School, won the Cleveland Ladies City title with a two-day 145, finished fifth in the Tennessee Girls' Junior in Murfreesboro and joined UTC coach Colette Murray in reaching match play in the Tennessee Women's Amateur at The Honors Course, where Murray and then Hall both lost to Florida's Addison Baggerly. Former Moc Christine Wolf is 11th in the Ladies European Tour's Order of Merit standings.
Baseball
* Sewanee received a team academic excellence award from the American Baseball Coaches Association for the second year in a row, recognizing its 3.11 team GPA for 2017-18. The requirement is 3.0. And five of the Tigers have had productive recent months in collegiate summer leagues. Sophomore Trey Holland did so well in the Carolina-Virginia Collegiate League, he was picked up by the Cotuit Kettleers of the prestigious Cape Cod league. He pitched 36 innings for the Fuquay-Varina Twins with a 2.00 ERA, a .172 opponents' batting average and 38 strikeouts. Sewanee senior outfielder Riley Brandvold hit .375 with a home run, a triple and four doubles the first half of July for the formidable Valley league's Woodstock River Bandits, with whom he made no errors in 28 games. Junior Jared Demkowicz pitched in seven games for the California Grizzly in the Palm Springs league, striking out 13 with a 2.50 ERA in 9 2/3 innings, and played in 13 games in the field. He hit .250 with a .437 on-base percentage. Sophomore Tyler Dunbar got 42 at-bats in 20 games and batted in six runs for the Delray Beach Lightning in the South Florida league, and Braxton Swanson played for the Prospect Patriots in the Sunbelt league.
Softball
* The King's Men slowpitch team representing Lookout Valley Baptist Church finished second in the Bronze Plus class of the National Softball Association state tournament last weekend at Crossville. The King's Men won 22-5 over the New Age Outlaws, 17-10 over Prodigy, 15-11 over pre-tourney favorite Synergy Auto Wash and, between 25-10 and 26-9 losses to champion Bad Karma, 25-15 over Thin Blue Line. Bad Karma has players from throughout Middle Tennessee. The King's Men's Stephen Graham was named all-state after going 19-for-21 (.905) in the tournament. Also batting over .720 were player-manager Garrett Reagan (.762), Chris Sislo (.750), Austin Parkison (.727) and Eric Summers (.722).
Track & Field
* The Covenant College women's track and field athletes earned an all-academic team award from the sport's national coaches association for the second year in a row, and the Covenant men were honored for the first time. The distinction requires an aggregate 3.10 GPA on a 4.0 scale, and coach Katie Stanford's Lady Scots had a 3.56 (up from 3.36 the previous year) while the men combined for a 3.11. Only Piedmont's two teams joined Covenant from the USA South.