Martin will coach lacrosse at TWU

Tennessee Wesleyan University has hired former Cookeville High School coach Derrel Martin Jr. as its women’s lacrosse head coach. He started the programs at Cookeville High and Cookeville Middle and coached two national-tournament players and 12 Academic All-Americans with the Cavaliers. He’s directed a youth team in Stafford, Va., the last two years, and it won a Northern Virginia championship. He recently retired from federal service, according to the TWU website.

SOCCER

› The Bryan men’s soccer team, ranked 11th in the NAIA preseason poll, lost its second consecutive 3-1 decision to a ranked foe Saturday night. No. 16 Campbellsville won at Dayton. Brad Spooner scored for the Lions (2-2), assisted by Dino Jones. That halved a 2-0 deficit at the time.

› Bryan’s Lady Lions lost 2-0 at Freed-Hardeman with the goals at 64:50 and 88:31. Freed-Hardeman (2-1) had a 20-15 margin in shots, 13-7 on goal, and Morgana Hardt da Silva made 11 saves for Bryan (0-1).

› Yuri Parisotto netted a goal in each half and Tom Lake and Gabriel Gonzalez also scored in Tennessee Wesleyan’s 4-0 men’s soccer win Saturday at Middle Georgia State. TWU is 3-1.

› Addy Cronan and Paige Simons each scored two goals, Cronan with an assist, as the Covenant College women’s soccer team began its season with a 5-0 home win Saturday against Berea. The Lady Scots scored four in the first 38 minutes and outshot the visitors 34-0. Rebekah Gravitt also scored, Molly Kate McClearn had the first assist and Megan Rasku had two assists.

› The Covenant men fell 2-0 to Eastern Mennonite, both goals coming in the last 14 minutes. Jonathan Crossman had six saves in defeat.

› The Sewanee men lost 4-2 to Randolph at Birmingham-Southern, where the Tigers opened their season Friday with a 1-0 defeat of Guilford on freshman Andile Tshuma’s goal in the 55th minute. Saturday, Zach Birkhead scored from a Brendan Mann assist to produce a 1-1 tie and Sewanee’s Alpo Sipila had the last goal of the game.

› Sewanee’s women played to a 0-0 tie against North Carolina Wesleyan in the Meredith Classic at Raleigh. N.C. Wesleyan outshot the Tigers (0-1-1) 18-10, but Samantha Bourgeois had nine saves for Sewanee.

› The Dalton State men’s soccer team lost 3-2 to St. Thomas of Florida in the Thomas Invitational in Thomasville, Ga., when Federico Moronell scored twice in the final five minutes for the Bobcats.

› The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga scored early and late in the first half Friday night for a 2-0 women’s soccer lead at UT-Martin, but Amy McGivern scored two second-half goals for the Skyhawks — the second at 87:46 from a double-assist — and the 2-2 tie continued through overtime. Jordan Mueller scored 3:26 in for the Mocs (1-22), and Chloe Arnold scored from an Abby Linder assist seven seconds before the break. UTM (1-3-1) had a 14-6 advantage in shots, and Melia Correa made 12 saves for UTC.

FIELD HOCKEY

› Monica Buesco scored early in the second half and the Sewanee field hockey team held on for a 1-0 victory in its season opener Saturday at Eastern Mennonite. Rachel Blum made seven saves and Katya Waters added three for the Tigers.

BASEBALL

› Joe Purus has joined Mike Policastro’s baseball staff at Cleveland State as an assistant coach. Purus, who played at Wilkes Community College and Milligan College and earned an advanced degree from Delaware State University, coached at Wilkes, Western Nevada and DSU after a couple of high school jobs. He also coached the N.C. State Aggies under-18 travel team. He was a two-time all-region player at Wilkes, where he batted over .400 with 19 home runs, 23 doubles, five triples and 91 RBIs in his two seasons. At Milligan he hit .338 with three homers, three triples, 16 doubles and 47 RBIs.

GOLF

› Danny Proctor and Bill “Tiger” Ramsey won the recent 2017 Valleybrook Member-Guest golf tournament by taking flight 3 and then winning the shootout. Russell Webster and William Travis won flight 1 with Tim Hayes and Scott Harmon finishing second; Bob Waller and Ed Street won flight 2 with Daniel Polacek and Brett George second; Darryl Dodson and Lee Robertson were second to Ramsey and Proctor in flight 3; Bob Williams and Jeff Garrett won flight 4 with Greg Howard and Rick Eberle second; and Harry Hartman and Jimmy Jones won flight 5 with Bill Linville and James Linder second. Williams/ Garrett and wild cards Howard/Eberle joined Ramsey/Proctor as first-round shootout winners, and Ramsey/Proctor downed Williams/ Garrett in the final.