Susan Taylor Cobb and Jackie McClain Freelend are the 2015 inductees into the Girls Preparatory School Athletic Hall of Fame, and they will be honored during Alumni Weekend festivities today and Saturday. Cobb, a 1990 graduate, was a GPS starter in soccer as a freshman the first year the TSSAA recognized the sport, and she wound up being a three-time all-state player and an NSCAA All-American -- the only female from Tennessee -- for the 1989 season, when she was captain of the Bruisers team that reached the state final. She was a four-year starter at Davidson College and a co-captain as a senior there. Freelend, class of 2000, helped lead GPS to softball state championships in 1998 and 2000 and batted .489 with 230 hits and 194 RBIs for her prep career, and she was a three-time TSWA player of the year and in 2000 the Gatorade player of the year for Tennessee. Then she was a perennial All-SEC and All-America player in four seasons at Alabama and an Academic All-American in 2004.
Softball
* Tennessee Wesleyan defeated St. Andrews 4-1 in the winners-bracket final of the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball tournament Thursday at Kingsport, Tenn., and second-seeded Bryan beat top seed Reinhardt 9-3 in their losers-bracket matchup but then lost 2-0 in eight innings to Truett-McConnell. St. Andrews will meet Truett at 11 a.m. today with the winner then having to beat third-seeded Wesleyan twice for the title. Amy Lokker was 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs and a run scored for Wesleyan on Thursday, when Stephanie Bridges was 1-for-2 with both a run and an RBI. Rachel Mathews and Alexis Adams combined to pitch a six-hitter. Mariam Wood was 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs in Bryan's win, when Olivia Gore also had two hits and three RBIs and Kaitlyn Bowen was 2-for-3 and scored three times. Heidi Daniel and Wood each had two hits against Truett-McConnell.
Baseball
* The Tennessee Temple baseball team won 4-0 and 12-4 at Johnson University on Thursday, with Hunter Giles pitching a five-hitter with 10 strikeouts in the first game and Micah Wyatt allowing only two earned runs and going 4-for-5 with two RBIs in game two, when Chase White and Caleb Lee each was 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Chase Burke also had two hits and two RBIs. White and Lee each had two hits and an RBI in game one, and Nico McElrath was 2-for-4 for Temple (19-9).
Track & Field
* Carson-Newman sophomore T.J. Davis from Ooltewah is one of two Eagles competing this weekend in the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. It is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, having been held annually since April 1895. "I'm just blessed to be in the position I'm in right now," Davis, the South Atlantic Conference long jump and triple jump champion, said in a Carson-Newman release. "I'm very excited. I'm getting chills just thinking about it." He's entered in long jump.
* Winthrop University freshman Preston Elwell from Signal Mountain won the men's javelin throw Wednesday at the Carolina Cup track and field meet in Rock Hill, S.C., with a toss of 186 feet, 10 3/4 inches.
Golf
* Gibby Gilbert III from Ooltewah was in a three-way tie for first but tied for second after a playoff in the Sunbelt Senior Tour's stop at TPC at Eagle Trace on Thursday at Coral Springs, Fla. Kevin Johnson of Palm Beach Gardens won on the second playoff hole after shooting three consecutive 68s. Cliff Kresge of Kingsport, Tenn., and Gilbert shot 66s on Thursday to get their 204s.