UTC’s Woods gets two SoCon honors
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Megan Woods was doubly honored by the Southern Conference on Wednesday, as both the women’s golfer of the week and the league’s student-athlete of the week, and UTC’s Lake Johnson was the men’s golfer of the week. Woods, an accounting major with a 4.0 grade point average, tied for sixth at 217 as the Mocs finished second in the UNF Collegiate in Jacksonville, Fla. Johnson, a junior from Chattanooga Christian, tied for 11th at 213 in Auburn’s Tiger Invitational.
› The Dalton State men’s golf team, ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, finished third in the 15-team Sand Shark Classic in Okatie, S.C., with a 54-hole 876. No. 8 USC-Beaufort and No. 5 Coastal Georgia shot 869 and 872. DSC’s S.M. Lee was third individually at 214 with P.J. Shields eighth at 217 and Ben Rebne 13th at 219 with a closing 70.
BASKETBALL
› Bryan College lost 76-60 to Indiana Tech on Wednesday in the first game of the NAIA Division II women’s basketball tournament at Sioux City, Iowa. Bryan (25-10) was a sixth seed and got off to a slow start with 1-of-15 shooting in the first quarter and 24.2 percent for the first half, compared to 54.5 percent for its third-seeded opponent. Indiana Tech (30-4) led 23-7 after a quarter and 44-24 at halftime and had all five starters score in double figures. Two reserves led the Lady Lions, Keneisha Love with 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting and three blocked shots and Tristan McClellan with 14 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
BASEBALL
› Tennessee Wesleyan won 10-3 Tuesday in NAIA baseball at Mobile but lost 7-2 Wednesday at No. 1-ranked Faulkner. At Mobile (17-3), Aloysious Cruz was 4-for4 with a home run, a triple and four runs scored and Addison Adams was 2-for-3 with two walks and four RBIs for the Bulldogs (10-11). Grant Lang homered and singled and Tristan Clarke and Chris Baetzel each was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Clarke scoring twice. At Faulkner, Collin Ridout was 4-for5 as TWU totaled six hits.
SOFTBALL
› The Tennessee Wesleyan softball team lost 4-3 in eight innings and won 3-2 Wednesday at 16th-ranked Southeastern in Lakeland, Fla., after falling 8-4 and 6-1 the day before at No. 22 Warner. Courtney Black was 3-for-4 with an RBI double and Baylee Sutton tripled and brought in two runs in Tuesday’s first game for TWU (8-6). Wednesday, Briana Muller and Sutton homered in Rachel Mathews’ pitching win, Sutton and Mackenzie Jackson each going 2-for-3. Muller also homered and was 2-for-4 along with Black in the loss, when
Courtney Calkins gave up just five hits and two earned runs in her seven innings.
› Bryan lost 11-1 and 7-4 at home against No. 23 Rio Grande on Tuesday. Sydney Olander had two RBIs in the second game for Bryan (5-13), which has played 10 games against NAIA Top 25 teams.
› ProStar Fastpitch middle infielder
Jenna Mosley learned this week that she is a “Direct Select” choice for the USSSA All-American Games this summer — ProStar’s third such selection in three years. Mosley, a middle schooler who will be a freshman at Trion High this fall but already is on the radar of Southeastern Conference coaches, was told of her selection after a tryout in Hampton, Ga. She gained bigtime attention with her performance in the Scenic City Showcase in early November, according to ProStar chief Steve Chattin.
LACROSSE
› The Sewanee women’s lacrosse team beat Ohio Northern 15-1 Wednesday night for its sixth win in a row. The last five have been by a margin of 88-13. Catherine Crigler, Mary Kate Myers, Anna Comer, Sarah Strand and Alden Woodford scored two goals each, Crigler and Myers with an assist apiece, and Grace Zechman had three assists.
› Eighth-ranked Siena Heights won 17-13 in an NAIA women’s showdown Tuesday at No. 5 Tennessee Wesleyan. The 2-0 visitors scored the first five goals, but TWU (3-2) got within 13-12 with 6:53 to go. Margaret Waite scored four goals and Taylor Minauskas and Mikayla Virden netted three each in defeat.