The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf team was sixth out of 15 teams with four holes to go in Monday's second round of the USF Invitational at the Tampa Palms course. Play was suspended at that point and was to resume this morning, with the final round to follow. The Mocs were 10th at 303 after round one with Connor Nolan at 73, Dominic Jones at 75, Oliver Simonsen at 77 and Lake Johnson at 78. The team was 3 under par through 14 holes of round two, led by Johnson at 4 under and Simonsen at 2 under.
Track & Field
* UTC's Nicole Buehrle won the women's 3000-meter steeplechase and 400 dash and was an extremely close second to teammate Abby Bateman at Jacksonville State's Choccolocco Challenge track and field meet this past weekend at Oxford, Alabama, and Mocs freshman Sage Davis won the women's 100 and was fifth in the 200. UTC was third as a team. Buehrle finished her first steeplechase in 11:53.26. The Mocs' Hannah Salami was second in the 400 intermediate hurdles and fourth in the 400 dash, Julia Henderson was second with Makenzie Jones sixth in the 1500 and Rebekah Hampton and Rebekah Bryant were fourth and sixth in triple jump and fifth and sixth in long jump. UTC women were second in the 4x200 relay, third in the 4x100 and second and third in the 1600 sprint medley relay. In men's events, UTC's Josh Topham was second in the 1500 and Mark Britt and Jonathan Boyd were third and fourth in the 5000.
Softball
* UTC senior Emma Sturdivant was the Southern Conference softball player of the week, and freshman teammate Mariah Ramirez was the pitcher of the week. Sturdivant hit .462 with a home run, a triple, three doubles and three RBIs in five games in Clearwater, Florida, and Ramirez was 2-0 with an 0.88 earned run average in two complete games. She was the pitcher of the month for February and is 7-0 with a 2.35 ERA overall. Sturdivant, whose homer gave Ramirez a 1-0 win over Holy Cross, is batting .373 with three homers, six doubles and 18 RBIs for the season.
* Lee's softball team lost 3-2 and 11-6 in Gulf South Conference softball games Sunday at 16th-ranked UAH (20-6, 8-1) and fell again Monday, 11-1. Shonna Penney pitched a four-hitter with two earned runs and Abby McKinney had a two-run single in the first loss, and Claudia Jones hit a three-run homer and Taylor De Adder had two doubles and two RBIs in the second game. De Adder had the RBI hit Monday for Lee (10-14, 1-7).
* Cleveland State is 6-5, 2-2 in the TCCAA, after winning 12-1 and losing 9-6 Monday at Roane State. Chattanooga State's games at Motlow State were rained out.
Baseball
* Lee University won 9-4 and lost 8-2 in GSC baseball Sunday at Alabama-Huntsville, and Monday's game was rained out. Miguel Pimentel had three RBIs with two home runs for Lee (11-10, 4-3) in Sunday's first game, when Thomas Zazzaro, Keyshaun Smith, Dalton Ney and Parker Stahlman each was 2-for-5, Stahlman with two RBIs. Pimentel was 2-for-4 with an RBI double in game two.
* Tennessee Wesleyan's second-ranked NAIA team lost 13-11 and 3-2 in Appalachian Athletic Conference play Sunday at Union College in Kentucky but won 5-2 Monday. TWU's Dan Fry tripled twice and Braden Mosley homered and each drove in three runs and scored three in the first loss, and Shamoy Christopher hit a two-run homer. Alex Flock and Mosley had first-inning RBI singles in the second game. Monday, Christopher had another two-run homer, Aloysius Cruz added a two-run double and Flock and Tyler Reichenhorn each had two hits and scored a run for TWU (19-4, 3-2), and Cole Bellair pitched all nine innings, allowing one earned run.
* Cleveland State lost 1-0 and won 4-3 in extra innings in TCCAA baseball Monday at Roane State. Roane's Lincoln Bowman pitched a one-hitter with nine strikeouts in six innings to win the first-game duel with Ryan Inches, who allowed five hits and also struck out nine in 5 2/3. Theron Powell was 2-for-3 with the RBI. In game two for the visiting Cougars (9-7, 3-1), Lance Dockery had two hits and two RBIs, including the winner in the ninth. Andrew Carpenter scored that run and was 2-for-3.