UTC golfers 5th in Mobile event
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team is in fifth place at 2-under-par 574 with one round to go in the Mobile (Ala.) Sports Authority Intercollegiate tournament at Magnolia Grove Crossings. UTC shot rounds of 286 and 288 Monday with Wes Gosselin and Phillip Hickam sharing seventh place individually at 141, Stuart Thomas tied for 25th at 145 and Andrew Weathers at 147. Gosselin shot a 66 in round one, Hickam a 68 in round two. Host South Alabama leads the 15 teams at 165, two better than Louisville. Playing in the USA Individual at Magnolia Grove Falls, UTC’s Brooks Thomas is tied for ninth at 146 and Etienne Brault is tied for 13th at 148.
BASKETBALL
› The Tennessee Wesleyan women (15-13) are seeded fifth and face 12th seed St. Andrews at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Apppalachian Athletic Conference basketball tournament at the MeadowView Marriott in Kingsport, Tenn., and the sixth-seeded Bryan women (1414) and 10th-seeded Bryan men (10-19) play at 3:30 and 5:15 p.m. against Columbia (S.C.) and Truett-McConnell, respectively. The TWU men (17-12), seeded fourth, face Bluefield at 1:45 Thursday. The Milligan (22-8) and Reinhardt (26-4) women tied for first at 18-4 in AAC play, but Milligan got the No. 1 seed and the automatic NAIA Division II tournament berth by having swept their season series.
› Isaiah Box hit five 3-point shots for 15 points and Mike Harden added 14 as Dalton State beat visiting Blue Mountain 61-46 in Southern States basketball Monday. Box also had four steals for the Roadrunners (22-4, 14-4.
TRACK & FIELD
› The Lee University track and field teams set four school indoor records and added three national provisional times or distances Saturday at the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C. It featured all levels of college athletics, including NCAA Division I teams. Josiah Brooks was second in the triple jump, second with his twin Justin third in the 200meter dash and third in the long jump with a Flames-record leap of 6.85 meters. The Brookses’ 200 times of 22.00 and 22.08 seconds, converted for track size to 21.62 and 21.70, met the NCAA Division II provisional standard, as did the Lee-record distance medley relay run by Brandon Raleigh, Justin Brooks, Harold
Smith and Christian Noble in a ninth-place 10:06.78. Derek Flatford set a Lee record with his 8.63 in the 60 hurdles prelims and was eighth in long jump. Tucker Hindle was fourth in the men’s 5000. The other school record was the Lady Flames’ seventh-place DMR of Jessica Childers, Adrian Martin, Cayce Bryan and Audrey Smith in 12:17.29. Lee’s Logan Hernandez and Lily Fell were fourth and seventh in the women’s 5000, with Tennessee Wesleyan’s Hannah Rhodes fifth. NAIA member TWU also had Josh Parsons fourth and Cadarius Harris sixth in the men’s 60 and Darren Payton ninth in the 800, and the men’s 4x400 relay finished fifth. Bryan’s Tyler Boone was fifth in the men’s 3000.
TENNIS
› Covenant College’s Logan Hull is the USA South men’s tennis freshman of the week after going 2-1 at No. 3 singles in the voting period, with the loss being to UTC. Hull had the Scots’ only team point in a loss to Birmingham-Southern.
SOFTBALL
› North Georgia Nighthawks catcher Shelby Hammontree from Heritage High School is the Peach Belt Conference softball freshman of the week after batting .526 with one strikeout in 19 at-bats in the team’s 4-2 week. She was 7-for-8 with six RBIs in Sunday’s two wins, going 5-for-5 with home runs in three consecutive at-bats — a school record — plus two doubles and five RBIs in a 20-4 defeat of Seton Hill. She had a triple earlier in the week.
LACROSSE
› The Tennessee Wesleyan women’s lacrosse team is 1-1 after winning 16-11 Monday at Asbury.
› Sewanee won 16-2 in women’s lacrosse Sunday at Huntingdon, with goals from 13 players and two apiece from Meredith Sackett, Farrell Guest and Kit Sommi and a goal and two assists from Grace Zechman. The Tigers are 2-0.