Chattanooga native and Baylor School graduate Rob Robinson has been promoted to associate athletic director for business affairs for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic department, and Kenneth Jones was introduced last week as the director of compliance. Jones was the compliance coordinator at UNC Wilmington, where he worked the last five years. He grew up in Brandon, Miss., and graduated in 2006 from Alcorn State before receiving a master's degree in economics at Arkansas, where he was a graduate assistant helping with compliance. Robinson has a law degree from Tennessee and worked as a compliance coordinator at Oklahoma before coming to UTC. He has been the assistant AD of compliance since August 2013. "Rob has been outstanding in his position since returning to Chattanooga," vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn said in UTC's announcement release. "Between his law degree and his experiences in compliance, Rob's skills and knowledge make him an excellent fit to lead our business operations." Jones, Blackburn said, "has an excellent reputation among those he has worked with."
Basketball
• Cleveland State won 59-46 in the women's game but lost 96-83 in the men's in a TCCAA basketball doubleheader Saturday at Columbia State. Jlynn Majors scored 12 points, Jamesha Mosley had 11 points, 12 rebounds and four steals, Brandi Whitted added 10 points and four assists and Brandi Kilpatrick grabbed 10 rebounds for the Lady Cougars (5-2, 3-1). Rico Overall had 30 points and seven assists and Orlando Moore scored 17 points in defeat for the Cougars (3-4, 1-3), who also lost 71-63 at Jackson State after the Lady Cougars fell 80-70 on Friday. T.J. Dunans had 22 points, 10 rebounds, four steals and four assists for Columbia's Chargers.
• Brody Stone was 9-of-11 from the field and had 19 points with 14 rebounds as Sewanee opened its men's basketball season Saturday night with an 82-70 home win over Huntingdon. Jorden Williams also scored 19 points and added five assists, while Keshonn Carter had 12 points and Leo Born and Marcellus Caldwell tallied 11 each for Sewanee. Jerome Davis had 15 points and seven assists and Dantavius Washington had 14 points and 14 rebounds for Huntingdon.
• The Sewanee women's basketball team broke away from a halftime tie and defeated Wesleyan (Ga.) 72-59 Saturday at Macon. Casey Hassett and Haley McDonough had 16 and 15 points and 13 and 10 rebounds, Kayla Sewell had 18 rebounds and six assists and Hannah McCormack scored 13 points in the Tigers' season-opening win. Diamond Hudson scored 28 points for Wesleyan.
Volleyball
• Second-seeded Carson-Newman lost 3-2 to third seed Anderson in the South Atlantic Conference volleyball tournament semifinals Saturday night in Hickory, N.C., but the Lady Eagles (26-6) got a season-high 18 kills and a career-high 29 digs from Boyd-Buchanan graduate Rachel Harper and 52 assists, 15 digs and three aces from Cleveland High alum Kristen Pickett. Harper has 14 double-doubles this season, and Pickett has 12.
Running
• Sewanee's Amy Lee earned all-region status with her 24th-place finish in the women's 6-kilometer race at the NCAA Division III South/Southeast Region cross country meet Saturday at Rome, Ga. Sewanee was 10th out of 29 women's teams and 12th out of 28 in the men's 8k, led individually by Mark McAlister in 38th place.
• Former Bryan College runner and coach Bryson Harper won the J103 Night of Lights 5k on Friday night at Camp Jordan Park with a time of 15 minutes, 48 seconds. Dylan Smith, 18, was second in 16:10, and Kelly Sevin and Rebecca Goodrich were 18th and 19th overall as the first two female finishers in 21:53 and 21:57.
Swimming & Diving
• The Sewanee women's swimming and diving team won 185-99 in a dual meet Saturday at Berry College, but Berry won the men's competition 150-143. The Vikings prevailed with a first-place finish in the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay.