Women's basketball assistant cards first ace at Bent Creek

The demand on college coaches means finding time for leisure activities -- such as playing golf -- can be difficult.

But that didn't prevent Southeast Missouri State assistant women's basketball coach Lisa Pace from fulfilling every part-time golfer's fantasy.

Pace, playing at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson, Mo., Thursday along with two other members of the Southeast women's basketball coaching staff, recorded her first hole in one. She used a seven iron to ace No. 6, a par-3, 130-yarder.

"She was pretty excited," Southeast head women's basketball coach B.J. Smith said.

Smith was in the foursome, along with assistant coach John Ishee and Mark Matthews, a longtime Southeast supporter.

"We try to play as a staff once a week or so in the summer when we can, but with a coach's schedule, it's hard to find much time to play," Smith said. "We're all just amateurs."

Hirings in the OVC

• Tennessee Tech promoted Amy Brown to head coach of the women's basketball team Friday after 10 years as an assistant to Bill Worrell, who is retiring Sept. 1.

Brown, 33, will become only the third head coach in the program's 36-year history. Tennessee Tech is only Division I school whose two head coaches have won more than 300 games each. Marynell Meadows won 363 games between 1970 and 1985, while Worrell won 408 games in his 20 seasons.

Brown was a four-year starter when she played at Louisiana Tech, which reached the NCAA national championship game in 1994.

* Austin Peay announced Friday the hiring of Carrie Daniels as its women's basketball coach. Daniels was a member of the 1996 Austin Peay team that made the program's first NCAA appearance, and she had been an assistant at Western Kentucky for the last seven years.