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The Lee University softball team won both ends of a doubleheader Sunday to sweep a Gulf South Conference series at No. 21 North Alabama, the 2016 NCAA Division II national champion. In the 3-0 win in Sunday’s first game, Leigh Beatenbough and Allison Meadows each drove in a run,
Brooklyn Frazier walked three times and Lady Flames starter Taylor Moran (3-1) allowed six hits and two walks with a strikeout. In the second game, a 4-3 win, Moran was 3-for-3 with an RBI, Frazier hit a threerun homer and Beatenbough earned her ninth pitching win against four losses this season. Lee is 17-7 overall, 8-4 in GSC play; North Alabama is 16-10, 6-6.
› The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga lost 6-2 to Northern Kentucky on Sunday in its final game at the Holy City Showdown in Charleston, S.C. Northern Kentucky (3-13) took control with a fiverun third inning and added its final run in the bottom of the fifth. UTC got both of its runs in the seventh, when Aly Walker scored on Jesslyn Stockard’s double and Katy Richardson followed with a double to bring Stockard home. Walker went 2-for-3 as the only UTC player with multiple hits; the team had six. The Mocs finished 1-4 at the weekend event and dropped to 7-17 this season.
› Sewanee was scheduled to host Birmingham-Southern in the finale of their Southern Athletic Association series, but with snow on the field Sunday, that third game was canceled.
BASEBALL
› Lee split a doubleheader Sunday to start a GSC series at North Alabama, losing 3-2 and winning 6-3. In the win, Jeffrey Chapuran and Nathan Wierzgac homered for the Flames (15-6, 6-5), while Peyton Meeker drew three walks, Joe Parete (3-0) struck out four in 1 2/3 innings in relief and Kit Larson earned his eighth save this season. In the loss, Wierzgac and Miguel Pimentel each went 2-for-4, Wierzgac with an RBI.
› The finale of an SAA series between Millsaps and host Sewanee was postponed Sunday because of snow. Sewanee won the first two games of the series Saturday. A makeup date will be determined if postseason conference seedings could change.
TRACK & FIELD
› Sewanee had four top-five finishes and seven other top-10s in the Birmingham-Southern Invitational track and field meet Friday and Saturday. In a field that included NCAA Division II and NAIA schools, the Tigers were 11th out of 15 men’s teams and 15th out of 17 women’s entries. Sewanee’s Meredith Stuber had the event’s best Division III time with her fifth-place 18.87 in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, and Davis Couch was fifth with Miles Martin eighth in the men’s 400 hurdles. Sewanee was fourth in the women’s 4x400 relay and fifth in the men’s 4x400. Ash Midyett was seventh in the men’s 400 and ninth to teammate Logan Stockton’s eighth in the 1500, and Sewanee was eighth and ninth in the men’s 4x100 and ninth in the women’s.
LACROSSE
› Sewanee’s men lost 10-5 to visiting Skidmore on Sunday. Peter Brown, Tyler Calnan, Thomas Lynde, Jimmy Parker and Will Pratt scored for the Tigers (3-3), and Selby Austin, Brown, Jake Chintz, Hayden Hunt, Cason Liles, Lynde, Jake Pesetsky, George Pratt, Will Pratt, Wil Rainer and Jake Rubenstein had multiple groundballs, Liles with a team-leading five. He also won 11 of 16 faceoffs. Skidmore (2-3) led 7-1 early in the third quarter, but Sewanee scored three straight goals to keep the game competitive entering the final period.
GOLF
› Lee’s men were 10th after a first-round 11-over-par 299 Sunday in the Southeastern Collegiate at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club in Valdosta. Florida Tech leads at 283. Lee’s Corey Sheppard and Shea Sylvester were among those tied for 10th at 1-over 73, and Matt Johnson (76), Scott Odell (77) and Adam Wright (83) also played for the Flames. West Florida’s Chandler Blanchet leads by three after a 62.