Outfielder Braden Mosley of regular-season and tournament champion Tennessee Wesleyan University (48-8) is the 2019 Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the year, and teammates Cole Bellair and Tyler Reichenborn are the pitcher of the year and the newcomer of the year. Those three seniors were joined on the All-AAC first team by TWU juniors Shamoy Christopher, Dan Fry, Bryce Giles and Irving Martin and Bryan College senior first baseman Lake Burris. The second team included Bryan's Marcus Catalano, Joseph Cuomo and Gabe Howell and Wesleyan's Max Draijer. Christopher, Draijer, Fry and TWU teammates Adrian Marquez and Jhosmel Rodriquez made the nine-man Gold Glove team, and Aloysius Cruz and Bryan's Tucker Cain were Champions of Character choices. Mosley has a .389 batting average with 16 home runs, seven doubles, 56 RBIs, 49 runs and 15 stolen bases for the NAIA's second-ranked team, and Reichenborn is batting .361 with 12 homers, 15 doubles, a triple, 58 runs and 42 RBIs. Bellair has an 11-1 record with a save, a 1.68 earned run average and 74 strikeouts in 80 innings.
» Sewanee senior Riley Brandvold made the Southern Athletic Association baseball all-conference first team after batting .325 in 2019 with a league-high eight homers, 47 runs and 31 RBIs. The Tigers' Trey Akins and Trey Holland made the second team, and Jack Galanek received honorable mention. At 21-19, Sewanee posted the most wins in program history and finished at least .500 for the first time since 1985.
Softball
» Chattanooga State got the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII softball tournament over early with 10-6 and 13-8 victories Wednesday over Volunteer State at Columbia, Tennessee. The championship game was moved up from Thursday with the expectation of bad weather. Vol State (28-18) won 4-0 in the losers-bracket final against No. 2 seed Walters State (35-19), which had just edged Cleveland State 5-4. Hailey Galvan had two RBIs and Sadie Coons scored twice for Cleveland's Lady Cougars (25-22), who fought back from a 5-0 deficit. No. 1 seed Chattanooga State, which went 4-0 in the tournament and takes a 42-8 record into the NJCAA Division I nationals, scored eight runs in the first three innings of its first game Wednesday and led 9-1 before the Lady Pioneers' five-run sixth inning. Breanna Vinson went 4-for-5 with a home run, a triple and four runs scored in that game, while Haley Smith homered and doubled and drove in two and Ashlyn Holland was 3-for-4 and Katie Cheeseman 2-for-3 with three RBIs each. Mary Kate Pritchett was 2-for-4 and scored twice, and pitchers Brooke Parrott and Abby Wall struck out 10 batters. The same duo struck out 10 again in the final, when the Lady Tigers led 7-0 after two innings and 10-1 after three. Holland had two homers and six RBIs, Smith was 3-for-3 with three runs, Cheeseman and Madison Morris each had two hits and two RBIs and Madison Tidmore was 2-for-3 with two runs. The champions totaled 16 hits in each game Wednesday.
Golf
» Monica San Juan ended her University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golf career with a 3-over-par 75 Wednesday and a three-day 230 in the NCAA Division I Auburn Regional in Opelika, Alabama. That left the Southern Conference champion in a tie for 73rd place. Vanderbilt's Auston Kim was the medalist with a 210, and Vandy, Florida State, Duke, Virginia, Auburn and Tennessee were the six teams advancing to the national championship tournament in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
» Led by Haverly Harrold's 2-under-par 70, the 21st-ranked Lee University women moved up two spots to seventh Wednesday in the final day of the Division II South Regional they hosted at Cleveland Country Club. The Lady Flames closed with a 296 for a 910, led by Harrold in a tie for 17th individually at 224, Annika Gino at 225 and Emily Felix at 228. No. 8 Lynn was the team winner at 884, joined by No. 11 Limestone, No. 1 Barry and No. 5 Florida Tech in moving on to the national finals.