UTC’s Perez shares eighth
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior golfer Cristina Perez earned her second straight top-1o tournament finish, placing eighth Sunday to lead the Mocs at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic in Baton Rouge, La. Perez closed with a 1-over-par 73 — her second straight after an opening 79 — to finish tied for eighth at 9-over 225 in the 54-hole event at the University Course. She tied for ninth a week earlier at Iowa’s Hawkeye-El Tigre Invitational in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Sunday’s winning score was 215 and came from Claudia De Antonio of LSU, which finished at 902 and won the team title by two strokes over Houston. UTC finished eighth in the 12-team field with a 937, closing with a 306 for its best round of the tournament. The Mocs’ Monica San Juan tied for 19th at 232.
SOFTBALL
› Sewanee was swept in a Southern Athletic Association weekend series against Rhodes in Memphis, losing 5-3 and 11-3 on Saturday and 9-2 on Sunday. Jackie O’Reilly was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer and
Caroline Sweetin also homered for the Tigers (4-19, 1-8) in Saturday’s first game, and Katie Roth, Rachel Hoffman and
Taylor Wagner had second-game RBIs. In Sunday’s finale, Sweetin was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Jackie O’Reilly was 1-for-2 with a double and a walk.
› Brenau University’s Savannah Moore and Kelsey Payne from Soddy-Daisy and East Hamilton, respectively, were a combined 7-for-12 in Friday’s Appalachian Athletic Conference split with Bluefield. Payne doubled and singled in each game, scoring a run in the 11-3 loss, and Moore went 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI in the doubleheader.
› Cleveland State won a TCCAA weekend series versus Columbia State, dropping the opener 3-1 before winning Friday’s second game 7-4 and then sweeping Saturday’s doubleheader, 11-3 and 13-11. After totaling six hits in each of the first two games against Columbia State (9-18-1, 8-8), the Lady Cougars (13-14, 5-11) had 19 and 18 on Saturday to support Shian Stockwell as the winning pitcher in each end of the doubleheader. Stockwell also got the save in Bekah Copas’ victory Friday and totaled three hits at the plate in one game. Grayson Brown was among the offensive standouts as she had a four-hit game that included a home run, a three-hit game and another game with a two-run homer.
BASEBALL
› Columbia State completed a TCCAA series sweep with a 6-1 win Saturday at Cleveland State. That was the seventh victory in a row for the third-place Chargers (20-11-1, 8-4). The Cougars (20-11, 6-6) got 10 hits even though they scored only one run. Hunter Oliver homered and doubled and Joey Roberson and Noah Hill each doubled and singled in defeat.
FISHING
›Two boats from Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tenn., and one from Soddy-Daisy qualified Saturday for the Bassmaster High School National Championship in August on Kentucky Lake with top-27 finishes in the 274-boat Mossy Oak high school Southern Open on Lay Lake in Alabama. Sequoyah’s Micah Ford and Wyatt Sauder were seventh with 16 pounds, 1 ounce for their five-bass limit, and teammates Micah Bryant and Garick Robinson were 14th with 14-15. Soddy-Daisy’s Brandon Bates and Logan Phillips tied for 25th with 13-13. The winning weight was 20-8.
TRACK & FIELD
› Covenant College finished fifth in the men’s distance medley relay and sixth in the men’s 4x800 with school-record times this past weekend at the Emory Invitational in Atlanta, and the women’s DMR foursome of Margaret Fitch, Hannah Hennigh, Lilly Smith and Hannah Samuels were sixth with another program record. Michelann Settle, Anna Danek, Sydney Fitch and Alexandra May were seventh in the Lady Scots’ first 4x800. Caleb Aikens, William Bryan, William Wallace and Matt Seitz comprised the men’s DMR; Micaiah Allison, Leif Le Mahieu, Matthew Broussard and Will Richardson were the Scots in the 4x800.