GPS's Bandys win USTA clay nationals and other sports news

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Girls Preparatory School assistant tennis coach Meg Bandy and GPS freshman Maddox Bandy won the USTA National Mother Daughter Clay Court doubles championship Saturday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Brooke Bolender and Melissa Travers of Delray Beach, Fla. That gave the Signal Mountain residents a 3-0 record in the round-robin event. They won 0-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 over runners-up Denee Massie and Kylee Shipley of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Soccer

• Ian Meredith had two goals and an assist as Covenant won 4-1 in men's soccer Saturday at North Carolina Wesleyan, but the women's USA South game was called off after a lightning delay five minutes into play. Hunter Harrison and Noah Wiersema netted the other goals for the Scots (8-4-2, 4-1-1), and Snoopy Davidson and Hunter Brock combined to assist Meredith's final score.

• The Sewanee women's soccer team won 3-0 and the men won 2-1 in overtime in Southern Athletic Association matches Saturday against Oglethorpe in Atlanta. Max Hawes' score from a Solly Thomas assist at 105:33 ended the men's match for Sewanee (4-6-1, 1-0-1), after Walker Ueland evened the score at 1 at 79:07, assisted by Richard Huber. The Stormy Petrels had led from the 15th minute. Melissa Zankman scored from a Grace Priest assist in the first half for the female Tigers (7-3, 2-0), and Jordan Najmabadi and Katie Morrison added late goals with assists from Martha Dinwiddie and Sissy Frank. Sewanee outshot the Oglethorpe women (3-7, 0-2) 28-7.

• Tennessee Wesleyan won 2-1 at Truett-McConnell and Bryan won 1-0 at Union (Ky.) in Appalachian Athletic Conference women's soccer matches Saturday. That left TWC 6-6-1 overall and 3-3 in AAC play, while Bryan is 4-7 and 2-5. The Wesleyan men won 3-2 in overtime at Truett, but Bryan's guys lost 3-1 to first-place and nationally 14th-ranked Union (12-1, 5-1). The Lions dropped to 5-6-2, 2-4; TWC's Bulldogs are 5-5-1, 3-3.

Running

• Dalton State's Spencer Head and Natalie Hensley were the individual winners in the Panther Invitational cross country meet hosted Saturday by LaGrange College at Callaway Gardens, and the DSC men finished first with Sewanee third out of seven teams in the 8-kilometer race while Sewanee edged DSC for first by one point in the 5k. Sewanee's Amy Lee and Cate Hargrove were second and third behind Hensley's 20:00.40 with DSC's Nayeli Jacobo and Gloria Pascual fourth and fifth and Sewanee's Ansley McDurmon sixth. Head won the men's race in 26:57.96 despite misdirected at one turn, and Sewanee's Logan Stockton was third with DSC's Paul Patterson, Paul Schupp, Brody Cook and Saddoth Fraire fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth.

• Former Lee University runner Michael Walker from Cleveland won the Joe Johnson Mental Health Center Great Pumpkin Run 10k race Saturday morning on Moccasin Bend with a time of 34 minutes, 9 seconds. Jack Findley and Andy Highlander were second and third in 34:47 and 35:15, and Peyton Miller was fourth in 36:19. Tim Ensign, 51, was fifth and the masters winner in 36:31. A runner identifying herself as Susie Q from Dunlap was the first female finisher and 17th overall in 42:12; Bekah Houston and Jeanette Wilson were 19th and 20th.

Swimming & Diving

• Sewanee's Caty Hueske won three individual events in the season-opening swimming and diving meet Saturday in Louisville, Ky., against Southern Athletic Association opponents Centre and Birmingham-Southern and Old Dominion Athletic Conference favorite Washingon & Lee. Hueske won the women's 100- and 200-yard backstrokes and the 200 individual medley in times of 1:00:31, 2:09.64 and 2:15.16, and Sewanee was second to W&L in team points. The Tigers' Chloe Stevenson was second in the 200 breaststroke, and teammates Emily Gay in the 1000 freestyle and Erin Neil in the 100 butterfly were third. Sewanee diver Grace Cobbs was second in the 3-meter competition and third in the 1-meter. Sewanee's David Evans and Frazier DeVaney won the men's 3- and 1-meter events, respectively, with teammate Winston Westbrook second in the 1 and third in the 3. The Sewanee men were third as a team with Brian Glatt finishing second in the 50 and 200 frees and third in the 100 free and Jackson Cromer and Evan Escobar each finishing second and third in their specialties, the backstroke for Cromer and the fly for Escobar. Kipling Kilmas was third in the 200 breast.

Football

• UTC assistant football coach Rusty Wright will be the guest speaker for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club's noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without. Wright, a former UTC player, oversees the Mocs' linebackers.

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