UTC’s Scrappys set for Wednesday
UTC’s Coca-Cola Scrappy Awards will be presented Wednesday at the Tivoli Theater, and admission is free, courtesy of the Mocs Club. Tickets cost $40 for a 5:30 p.m. VIP reception (with valet parking) preceding the 7:30 program. The awards will cover UTC’s spring sports season of 2016 through the just-concluded winter season, and categories include male and female student-athletes, scholar-athlete, victory, play, individual performance, newcomer, team, coach, fan and professor of the year, as well as comeback and behind-the-scenes honors. Contact Alex Ware at alex-ware@utc.edu or 423-425-5866.
TENNIS
› Top-seeded Wesley Cash of Chattanooga and Mark Vines of Naples, Fla., won 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 Friday over Oregon residents Leonard Wofford and Paul Wulf and will play today for their first USTA Men’s 60-over national championship together after multiple titles in 55s. This one is the hard courts nationals at Rancho Mirage, Calif., and their opponents today are Californians Randall Berg and Doug Ditmer, the No. 2 seeds. Vines is in the singles semifinals as the No. 1 seed, but Cash lost 6-4, 6-1 to fellow 9 seed Timothy Garcia of Santa Fe, N.M., in the quarterfinals.
BASEBALL
› With Wade Weinburger hitting two home runs to raise the school single-season record to 15, Bryan College beat Union College 16-5 in their AAC baseball series opener Friday in Dayton. Weinburger was 4-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs for the Lions (26-12, 10-6). Brookes Jones, Justin Morhardt and Lake Burris each homered and doubled, combining for seven RBIs, and
Jacob Justice hit a pinch-hit grand slam.
› The NAIA’s sixth-ranked Tennessee Wesleyan team won 8-3 in its AAC game Friday at Truett McConnell and is 27-12, 13-3.
› Sean McDermott was 4-for-5 with two doubles, Devon Gardner homered and tripled and each batted in three runs in Cleveland State’s 10-3 TCCAA win at Volunteer State. John Hennon also homered for the Cougars (24-10, 9-7), and Brandon Mason and Jordan Ransom each was 2-for3 with an RBI. Mason and Brett Browning
matched Gardner and McDermott with two runs scored apiece, and starting pitcher
Hooper Mills (6-3) allowed only one earned run and struck out eight in his seven innings.
› Covenant College lost 4-1 Friday in the first game of its USA South series at Piedmont. Julian Amorelli was 3-for-4 with two doubles and scored the run for the Scots (12-19, 5-11), and Caleb Bloye was 2-for-3.
SOFTBALL
› The Covenant softball team bounced back Friday from a 4-3 loss to Huntingdon in Montgomery, Ala., with a 5-1 win and forced a deciding third game today in their USA South tournament first-round series. Shade Epes and Shannon Schmitt each was 2-for-3 with an RBI, Epes scoring twice, and Casey Grover and Erika Mast also had RBIs in support of Tyler Epes’ six-hit pitching in the win for Covenant (22-16). Grover had two RBIs and Schmitt was 1-for-2 with the other in the first game, when Carsyn Stone was 2-for-3. Jordan Brett tripled in each game.
FOOTBALL
› Ooltewah High School’s Will Whitson has accepted an offer to become a preferred walk-on on Tennessee Tech University’s football team. Whitson, 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, played defensive end at Ooltewah and is a twotime all-region selection. He helped the Owls to a 10-3 mark last season, which ended with a state-quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Farragut. Whitson, who could possibly move to outside linebacker at TTU, totaled 65.5 tackles as a senior with 13 for loss and six sacks.
LACROSSE
› Jasmine Hickman had five goals and an assist and Mikayla Virden had four goals and two assists as Tennessee Wesleyan defeated the first-year Lee women’s lacrosse team 19-9 on Friday. Emily Waldroop scored thee goals and Sydney St. Clemmons had two goals and two assists for TWU (10-4), while Brianne Schapira and Hanah Rotello each scored three goals and Madeline Perrigo added two for Lee (0-11).