The Baylor baseball team won the Division II-AA East/Middle Region tournament at McCallie, beating Battle Ground Academy 6-3 Saturday in the championship game.

The Red Raiders (29-5) will host Father Ryan on Friday in a best-of-three series in the sub-state round. Sub-state winners will advance to the TSSAA state tournament the following week in Murfreesboro.

Staff Photo by Allison Kwesell -- Baylor’s Zac Moore pitches to Battleground Academy in the fifth inning at McCallie on Saturday.

Baylor’s Tyler Massey earned his 11th pitching win and went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run and three RBIs. Teammates Dylan Craig and James Feher each added two hits, while Craig also scored two runs.

“I’m proud that we were able to beat BGA,” Baylor coach Gene Etter said. “They are a good team and they were in our state tournament last year. We had to face their No. 1 pitcher, and they had to face ours too. The combination of Tyler Massey’s pitching and hitting were huge for us.”

* Brentwood Academy 6, McCallie 4: The Blue Tornado were relegated to the fourth seed in the region and will play Christian Brothers in Memphis in the sub-state round Friday. Brentwood Academy scored their six runs on 11 hits. The Blue Tornado’s Stuart Voges and Guerrin Higgins each had two hits; Higgins also batted in a run.

SOFTBALL

GPS beat Pope John Paul II 10-0 in six innings at GPS on Saturday and will be the top-seeded team from the Division II-AA East/Middle Region in the best-of-three softball sectionals.

The Bruisers (24-4-1) will host the region’s fifth-seeded team, BGA. Baylor, which defeated Father Ryan 4-0, will play at the West’s No. 2-seeded team, Briarcrest Christian. Days and times have not yet been determined.

GPS’s Megan Wagner limited the Lady Knights to three hits. She did not allow a walk and had three strikeouts.

Jessica Phillips and Kamri Chester hit consecutive two-RBI singles in the third inning, and Chester’s three-run home run capped a four-run fourth. Phillips’ two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the sixth ended it.

Tory Lewis was 3-for-4 and scored three runs for GPS.

* Baylor 4, Father Ryan 0: At GPS, Claire Hufstetler pitched a two-hitter and Caitlin Sutherland drove in all the runs in the Lady Red Raiders’ win. Hufstetler had seven strikeouts and overcame six walks.

Braleigh Angel led off the game for Baylor (17-14) with a single. With one out, coach Kelli Smith had Sam Everett sacrifice and Sutherland made the strategy work with a run-scoring single. Sutherland added a three-run home run in the third inning.

Nina Davenport paced a nine-hit attack for Baylor (17-14) with three.

SOCCER

Down a goal to Pope John Paul II in the first half, the McCallie soccer team scored two goals in the second half for a 2-1 comeback win Saturday in the Division II East/Middle Region tournament at Baylor.

McCallie’s Clint Parker scored on a penalty kick in the 58th minute and Cartter Kerr assisted Jesse Morgan’s winning goal in the 69th minute. The win makes the Blue Tornado (12-1-1) the third seeds in the Division II Middle/East Region, and they will play the sub-state round at St. Benedict’s on Saturday.

n Father Ryan 3, Baylor 0: The Red Raiders earned the second seed in the region and will host a team from the West Region on Saturday. Father Ryan outshot the Red Raiders (10-2-2) 10-8.

TENNIS

Two-time defending state singles champion Claire Bartlett of GPS, McCallie’s David Henry and teammate J.P. McLemore advanced to the singles semifinals of the Division II-AA East/Middle Region tennis tournament Saturday at Baylor School.

The event resumes with semifinals and finals this morning at 9:30 at Baylor. Semifinalists qualify for the state individual tournament the next week in Murfreesboro.

In girls’ doubles, GPS’s Cady Jones and Anne Elizabeth Holley reached the semifinal round along with Baylor teams of Erika Marschall and Kelly Scruggs and Currant Scruggs and Katie Thornton. Baylor’s Orlando Lourenco and McGregor Wallis will compete in the boys’ doubles semifinals, facing McCallie’s Wes Nelson and Chris Schlabach. The Blue Tornado’s Thomas Fanjoy and Roger Biggs will play in the other semifinal.

* Division II Class A: St. Andrew’s-Sewanee eighth-grader Sadie Shackelford won the Middle/East Region singles championship Thursday, advancing to the A state tournament at Murfreesboro. Her season record is 14-0.