No. 2 seed Chattanooga State defeated Motlow State 66-53 and third-seeded Cleveland State topped Southwest Tennessee 68-57 in TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII women's basketball tournament quarterfinals Sunday night in Columbia, Tennessee. The 25-5 Chatt State Lady Tigers' 13th straight win and 22nd in 23 games included 17 points and 11 rebounds from Melisa Carter, another 17 points from Michelle Smith, 10 points from Gee Gee Hollingsworth-Pugh and six assists and eight rebounds from Naja Fenelon. For Cleveland's Lady Cougars (17-10), TCCAA MVP Asjah Harrell had 27 points, five steals and five assists, Cassidy Nihoff 14 points and Za'kkria Robinson and Britnay Gore 10 and nine points and 11 and 12 rebounds. Top-seeded Walters State doubled up Roane State, 84-42, and No. 4 seed Dyersburg State downed fifth seed Jackson State 80-66 in Sunday's earlier games. Walters and Dyersburg are set to meet at 7 p.m. EST Monday, followed by the Lady Tigers against the Lady Cougars.
Softball
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team left Charleston, South Carolina, and the Holy City Showdown on Sunday with a third consecutive low-scoring one-run loss - 2-1 to Charleston Southern. UTC pitcher Allison Swinford allowed seven hits and only one earned run while striking out seven batters, but the Mocs (5-10) got only five hits. Cameren Swafford was 1-for-1 with two walks and an RBI double.
* Lee University beat host Christian Brothers 6-1 on Sunday and won the Gulf South Conference softball series 2-1. Pitchers Lulu Vasquez and Gracie Leslie allowed six hits and an unearned run and totaled eight strikeouts, and Brooklynn Frazier was 3-for-3 with two RBIs for Lee (12-6, 3-3). Kayla Gooch and AnnMarie Stooksbury each had two hits and two RBIs, Gooch with a triple and Stooksbury with a home run. Saturday, Frazier was 2-for-3 with a homer and Vasquez threw a five-hitter with one earned run in a 2-1 loss, and Lee won 3-2 on Shonna Penney's six-hitter with seven strikeouts. Abby McKinney and Frazier each was 2-for-4, and Zoe Miller had a two-run sixth-inning double and McKinney a two-out seventh-inning RBI single.
* Cleveland State completed a 2-2 TCCAA series with a 19-5 win and a 14-10 loss Saturday at Jackson State but lost its first two home games Sunday to Lake Land, 12-2 and 10-6. Hannah Turner and Amber Atkins had five hits each and Turner and Haley Fair homered in the 19-5 game. McCoy Hensley homered for the Lady Cougars in each Sunday game, and Turner, Kaylee Hughes and Kat Cechini joined her in the last one. Hughes and Turner were 2-for-3.
* Sewanee ended a 13-game season-opening road stretch with a 10-0 Southern Athletic Association loss Sunday at Berry (6-1, 3-0). Alice Charboneau was 2-for-2 for the Tigers (2-11, 0-3), who lost 10-1 and 9-1 to the Vikings on Saturday as Peri Prestwood and Maggie Willis took turns with two-hit games for Sewanee.
Baseball
* Lee University escaped a bases-loaded bottom of the ninth inning for a 7-6 victory Sunday at Christian Brothers and a GSC series win. "It was a hard-fought series win for us. Any time you get a road series win in the GSC, you take it and get out of town," Flames coach Mark Brew said in a Lee release. Thomas Zazzaro was 4-for-5 with an RBI double and two runs scored and Alan Smith had a sacrifice fly and what turned out to be the winning single for the Flames (10-7, 3-3). Saturday, they lost 6-5 and won 10-1 on ace Logan Workman's four-hitter with 10 strikeouts. Smith and Dylan Standifer drove in three and two runs and Zazzaro, Ryan Beamish, Landon Silver and Justen Freeman each contributed two hits in that game. Freeman was 3-for-4 and Justin Fragale homered, singled and batted in three runs in Lee's loss.
Track & Field
* The UTC women finished seventh Sunday in the Southern Conference indoor meet in Lexington, Virginia, and the Mocs' Makenzie Jones was fifth in the 5000-meter run with a personal-record time of 17:20.83. Teammates Emily Poole and Sophia Neglia were 13th and 14th, and Ashlynd Broling was 12th in the mile. UTC's Lesley Green in the 5k and Madelyn Thompson in long jump made the SoCon all-freshman team.
* Washington and Lee sophomore Murfee Jones from Girls Preparatory School won the pole vault at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference indoor meet Sunday at Salem, Virginia. Her 3.41-meter clearance (11 feet, 2.25 inches) was the third best in program history. The Generals finished second out of nine teams.
Fishing
* Bryan College's Bailey Fain and Preston Kendrick finished seventh Saturday in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series tournament on Smith Lake in Alabama with a three-day total of 36 pounds, 2 ounces. They weighed 10-6 Saturday. A McKendree University duo won by 8 pounds with 47-4.
Lacrosse
* Sarah Strand had six goals, seven draw controls and five ground balls as the Sewanee women's lacrosse team edged visiting Oberlin 15-13 on Saturday. Also for the Tigers (4-1), Hattie Fogarty had three goals and two assists and Caroline Roncalli made nine saves after a 10-10 halftime tie.
* The Sewanee men are 1-4 after a 16-5 home loss Sunday to Kenyon (3-0). Drew Mullen scored two goals and Hampton Brannon made 13 saves in defeat.
Compiled by Ron Bush. Contact him at rbush@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6291.