Area sports notes: Calhoun's Mike and Nash Nance win Georgia Four-Ball

Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.
Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.

The Calhoun father-son team of Mike and Nash Nance shot a 3-under-par 69 Sunday and won the Georgia Four-Ball Tournament by three strokes. The Nashes carded 65s the first two days at Southern Landings Golf Club in Warner Robins. Craig Wentworth of Macon and Lee Gerdes of Thomasville closed with a 65 and finished second overall, taking the second flight by two shots. Calhoun's Rhett McGowan and William Hamilton tied for third at 204, and the Dalton-area duo of Andy and Lucas Nations was eighth at 211.

Fishing

» Hixson's Miles Burghoff finished third Sunday in the FLW Tour bass tournament on Grand Lake in Oklahoma and received $25,500. His four-day total was 61 pounds, 3 ounces - 25 ounces less than the winner, who got $127,500.

Baseball

» Sewanee won 15-4 and lost 8-6 at home against Rhodes in Southern Athletic Association baseball Saturday, and Rhodes won 6-2 on Sunday. Jake Woolard was 3-for-4 with a home run, five runs batted in and three scored for the Tigers (17-12, 4-8) in the series opener, while Jack Galanek and Carter Huffman each had two hits and matched Chris McNulty's two RBIs. Riley Brandvold and Trey Akins also had two hits apiece and scored three and two runs. McNulty was 3-for-3 and Brandvold homered, each scoring twice, in Saturday's loss. Woolard and Huffman had the Sunday RBIs. The Sewanee softball team lost 10-2 and 17-0 Sunday at Hendrix.

» The NAIA's sixth-ranked Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team beat Milligan 9-6 on Friday and 11-1 and 18-1 on Saturday in their Appalachian Athletic Conference series. In Saturday's first game, Tyler Reichenborn was 4-for-4 with three homers and four RBIs, Braden Mosley homered twice with four RBIs and Max Draijer was 3-for-4 with a homer in support of Cole Bellair's seven-hit pitching for the Bulldogs (30-6, 10-4). Mosley was 2-for-2 with two homers again and five RBIs in the last game, and Reichenborn, Adrian Marquez, Corey Wynant and Dan Fry also homered. Fry was 3-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs, Marquez was 3-for-3 with three RBIs and two runs, Draijer scored four runs and pitchers Jack Granath and Jesse Philp combined for a four-hitter with eight strikeouts.

» Bryan College squeezed in a 12-6 win between 12-7 and 15-1 AAC losses at Point University. Lake Burris and David Scoggins had two-run homers and Marcus Catalano a solo shot in the first loss for the Lions (22-11, 9-6), and Tyler Scott also had two RBIs. In the win, Catalano doubled twice and was 4-for-4 with two RBI singles in the nine-run fifth inning, when Jesus Astudillo had a two-run double. Jacob Justice was 3-for-5 with an RBI and Burris had a two-run homer and matched Destine Udombon with two hits and three runs scored.

» Chattanooga State, which completed a TCCAA series sweep of Jackson State with a 19-0 romp Saturday, will play its 14th annual exhibition against the professional Lookouts on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at AT&T Field. General admission costs $5. The Tigers outscored JSCC 35-1 in their three games and now are 20-10, 6-6 in league play.

Lacrosse

» Nicole Federovitch had five goals and two assists as Alabama-Huntsville won 20-0 at Lee University in Gulf South women's lacrosse Saturday. UAH is 11-2, 4-0 in league play; Lee is 3-8, 0-4.

» The Sewanee men rebounded from a 9-7 loss Friday to Transylvania with a 15-14 overtime SAA win Sunday against Birmingham-Southern. Tal Wharton made 20 saves Friday and five after Bryce Womack's 14 Sunday for the Tigers (8-4, 3-0), which got four goals and six assists against BSC from Thomas Lynde and three goals apiece from Drew Mullen and Hayden Hunt. Hunt netted the winner unassisted. Ryan Stubits won 20 of 33 face-offs and got 13 ground balls.

» Sarah Strand scored four goals and Preston Cooper had three plus an assist as the Sewanee women routed SAA foe Berry 19-1. Kelly Thomsen had four assists and a goal and Hattie Fogarty and Grace Zechman each added three assists, with two goals and one, for the Tigers (10-6, 3-1).

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