SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018 THE DAILY TIMES SPORTS | 5B

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SLAM: UT early POSITIVES: Coach pleased with steady improvement from last year
lead proves FROM 1B we are working on like ground-
balls,” Dagley said. “There is a
Sevier County on Thursday.
Co-head coach Scott Odom attri-
so it’s really a great thing.”
It was a tough 0-14 inaugural

important in the final 25 minutes.

Catholic scored first in the
match, but Alcoa responded on a
lot of good team play, our passing
and shooting. We have specifically
some girls that have stepped up
butes the better results to the year
of experience the players took part
in last year.
season last year, but Alcoa only
had two players that had played
lacrosse going into that season.

down stretch goal from Jackson with 21:50 left

FROM 1B
Tennessee in the first
inning by making contact
on the first pitch of her
first at-bat, putting it down
the first-base line to score
Aubrey Leach and Gregg.
T h e e a rly 2 - 0 l e a d
proved important down
the stretch after Ashley’s
in the first half.
The Lady Irish scored the next
two before Carolon scored her
first to pull Alcoa to within 3-2.
A 10-0 run by Catholic pushed
the match out of reach.
The regular season started on
Feb. 19 for Alcoa and Dagley likes
the improvement from the start of
the season.
“We still have some basics that
and kind of carried the others.”
Last season, Alcoa didn’t win a
match. This year the Lady Tor-
nadoes recorded the first win
in program history with a 15-3
home win over Roane County
on Feb. 20.
The losses have been close
this season with an eight-point
loss to Gatlinburg-Pittman, two-
point loss to the West Knoxville
Warriors and a five-point loss at
“I think we enjoy a benefit this
season of having some experi-
enced returning players that help
lift up the new girls that are now
recognizing that this sport is avail-
able and are interested,” Odom
said. “It helps their enthusiasm and
excitement. It’s not just a whole
group of everyone trying to fig-
ure it out. You really have some
opportunities for the older girls
to lead and mentor in the sport
That made the 15-3 win over
Roane County even sweeter.
“It was a learning curve,” Dagley
said. “It took awhile, but this year
they had the first win. It was a
15-3 win over Roane County. They
played as a team. They played very
well and we were really proud of
them.”
The next match for Alcoa is
scheduled for Monday, March 26
at Farragut with a 6 p.m. start time.

Angels’ Ohtani
Morgan single to begin
the second inning was the
last hit the Lady Vols had
until the fifth. Leach, who

struggles in MLB
finished 2-for-2 with two
walks, singled to start the
bottom of the fifth, while
Jenna Holcomb put down a
bunt and Gregg was inten-

tionally walked.
With the bases-loaded,
Chelsea Seggern hit a
groundout-RBI to plate
Leach and take a 3-2 lead,
which proved huge as the
Tigers rattled starter Cay-
lan Arnold (W, 11-0) in the
next inning.
“We really did start out
good,” Gregg said. “I think
we just didn’t keep ham-
mering like we should
have. We had a lot of
momentum going in, but
we kind of lost it and I
don’t know why we did. I
wouldn’t say we had a great
outing tonight.”
Back-to-back singles
caused Arnold to exit the
game in the top of the sixth
and Matty Moss entered.
Moss got a strikeout and
groundout, but Callie Mar-
tin got her on the next at-
bat. Martin sent a two-RBI
double into left field as Hol-
comb dove, but missed as
Missouri came within a run.
“I thought Caylan had a
great start and the first four-
and-a-half innings were
good,” UT co-head coach
Ralph Weekly said. “Quite
frankly, we put too many
freebies on base and that
can’t happen.
“We lacked something in
exhibition start
The Associated Press
TEMPE, Ariz. — Los
Angeles Angels rookie
Shohei Ohtani allowed six
runs while pitching three
innings in an exhibition
game against the Mexican
League’s Tijuana Toros
on Friday.
The 23-year-old Ohtani
struck out six and walked
one.
Ohtani spent five sea-
sons with the Nippon
Ham Fighters before sign-
ing with the Angels as an
international free agent
on Dec. 10. He is trying
to become the first play-
er in nearly 100 years to
play regularly as a pitcher
and hitter, but he has had
mixed results so far this
spring.
DODGERS 6, ROYALS (SS) 4:
Los Angeles closer Ken-
ley Jansen was held out of
what was supposed to be
his first big league spring
DARYL SULLIVAN | THE DAILY TIMES training game this year
MARYVILLE’S CHRISTIAN POULSEN PITCHES against Huntingdon Friday in the second game of a due to an injured upper
three-game series at Maryville College. right hamstring.
“When he was getting
homer for Boston, a two-
run drive.
Miami’s Dan Straily gave
up two runs and six hits in
four innings.
METS 4, TIGERS 4: New
York’s Steven Matz pitched
four shutout innings after
giving up 10 runs over 1
1/2 innings during his first
two appearances. Kev-
in Plawecki and Wilm-
er Flores hit their first
spring-training homers
for the Mets.
Detroit ace Michael
Fulmer, allowed by right
elbow swelling, made
his first start in 12 days
and allowing one run
and three hits in three
innings.
PIRATES 5, PHILLIES 4: Jerad
Eickhoff struggled in his
third start for Philadel-
phia, giving up four runs
and five hits in 3 innings.
Rhys Hoskins had two hits
and two RBIs for the Phil-
lies, and Odubel Herrera
had two hits following a
1-for-17 start.
Adam Frazier had two
hits for Pittsburgh, includ-

SPLITS: Lambert honored in seventh

the circle tonight and that’s
all there is to it. Their pitcher
(Lauren Rice) came on real-
ly strong, and until Meghan
Gregg hit that bomb, she
(Rice) kind of held us intact.
We are better on the mound,
but tonight wasn’t one of
our better nights, so we are
going to talk about that.”
The Lady Vol offense
picked up the slack after
Rice, who pitched six
innings and allowed nine
hits and seven runs, held it
quiet most of the night. CJ
McClain reached on a field-
er’s choice and stole second.
Leach and Holcomb singled
to put Gregg in position to
do her thing.
“We did set it up and
we were hoping we’d get
to Meghan and we got to
Meghan,” Weekly said.
“Meghan hadn’t done a lot
tonight with that kid by her
own admission. She said,
‘I’m not seeing it like I usu-
ally do.’ But, she saw it there
and that really counted. We
needed a couple of those
FROM 1B
The Scots took an early
2-0 lead during the first
inning of Friday’s sec-
ond game by means of
RBIs from senior catcher
Andrew Henry, who batted
in Hayden Hollingsworth,
and sophomore outfield-
er Alden Wright, scoring
Henry.
A Hollingsworth single
brought home Ezell, giving
Maryville a 3-0 advantage
in the bottom of the sec-
ond, followed by a fielder’s
choice in the fourth that
scored Caleb Adams, with
Patrick Messinger credited
with the RBI.
Maryville loaded the bas-
es with no outs in the bot-
tom of the fifth and capital-
ized, as Adams recorded an
RBI and Wright ran home
on a double play with an
out to spare to give the
Chris Murphy said. “The
earlier game was a well-
played game on both sides
minus the five-run inning
that they had … We were
able to start fresh, 0-0 in
the second game, and just
played a little bit better
baseball.”
Maryville will face
Huntingdon for the final
game of the series at 2 p.m.
today.
LAMBERT, HOOPS HONORS:
At the conclusion of the
seventh inning of Friday’s
first game, Maryville men’s
basketball head coach Ran-
dy Lambert and his USA
South-champion team
were honored for their sea-
son accomplishments. The
squad won the first USA
South Tournament title in
program history and also
gained its third all-time
conference championship.
Lambert was commend-
ready today, his pregame ing a double, and Josh Bell
stuff and kind of getting added an RBI double.
his legs loose, it tightened TWINS 4, RAYS 3: Miguel
up on him,” Dodgers man- Sano hit his first two home
all divisions to do so with ager Dave Roberts said. runs for the Twins, both
their alma mater. “We had the trainers look solo shots, and Byron Bux-
“We’re fortunate,” Cody at him and it just made ton had two hits, scored a
Church. “We’ve got a lot sense to just not throw run and stole two bases.
of great coaches here on him out there.” Jose Berrios gave up one
campus and I’m just lucky Roberts said he expects run and three hits over
to get to be around. Coach Jansen will pitch in a four innings in his third
Lambert is a legend and minor league game on start.
there’s so much to learn Monday, then hopefully C.J. Cron drove in a run
from him, so much knowl- work in his first big league with his third double for
edge and love for this spring game next Thurs- Tampa Bay, while Denard
school …” day against the Royals. Span singled in a run and
Kansas City’s Whit stole a base.
GAME 1
Merrifield had two hits, BLUE JAYS 8, ORIOLES 5:
HUNTINGDON COLLEGE HAWKS 7, including his second Toronto’s Marco Estrada
MARYVILLE COLLEGE SCOTS 2 home run, and is bat- allowed one run and four
H 000 500 020 — 7 10 1 ting .520. Kenta Maeda hits over four innings fol-
M 000 100 010 —251
WP: Carden Mellown (3-1); LP: Anthony
allowed one run and three lowing a pair of scoreless
Rodriguez (0-2) hits in three innings for outings. Blue Jays closer
GAME 2
Los Angeles. Roberto Osuna pitched a
MARLINS 5, RED SOX 4: Bos- scoreless seventh. Kend-
MARYVILLE COLLEGE SCOTS 11, ton ace Chris Sale struck rys Morales had two hits,
HUNTINGDON COLLEGE HAWKS 3
out five in his spring including his first home
H 000 011 001 — 3 10 3
M 210 120 14X — 11 13 2
training debut, allowing run, and two RBIs.
WP: Christian Poulsen (4-0); LP: Blake one run and two hits in Caleb Joseph, in a battle
Mayes (2-3) four innings. Christian for Baltimore’s starting job
2B: H- Taylor Fought
Vazquez had two hits and at catcher, singled in a run
HR: M- Johnny Carpenter
Sam Travis hit his third and is batting .438.

runs anyhow.”
Arnold, who tossed six
innings and allowed five
hits, four runs and five
walks, re-entered in the
sixth inning and got two
TENNESSEE LADY VOLS 7,
MISSOURI TIGERS 4
Scots a 6-1 lead.
In the bottom of the
seventh, senior outfield-
er Johnny Carpenter hit a
homer over the left-field
wall to push Maryville
ahead 7-2. Four runs by the
Scots and one by Hunting-
$ave
ed himself for notching his
700th career win, all with
Maryville, during the sea-
son. He is just the eighth
coach in NCAA Division
III history to eclipse 700
wins and the fourth across

Bed Bugs
M 000 002 2 —470 don in the last two innings
UT 200 014 X —790 gave the game its final 11-3
WP: Caylan Arnold (11-0); LP: Lauren Rice
(4-6)
score.
“You’ve just kind of got to

2B: M — Callie Martin. HR: M — Kolby
Romaine; UT — Meghan Gregg. LOB: M — 9;
UT — 6. T: 2:20. Att: 1,475.
Biting?
start fresh when the new
game starts,” head coach

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