UNCG beats UTC in SoCon volleyball and other sports news

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Julia Westerbur's 10 kills and Sarah Hohman's 30 assists led UNC Greensboro to a 3-0 Southern Conference volleyball win Friday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Spartans (13-8, 5-3) rolled 25-18, 25-16, 25-15. UTC (12-12, 5-4) got nine kills apiece from Kristy Wieser and Allie Davenport and 13 and 12 assists from Lauren Greenspoon and Anne Bachmann. Catherine Chason led in digs with nine, and Davenport was next with seven.

• Lauren Williams had 16 kills and Latrice Johnson and Patty Orozco split 16 as Lee University beat visiting Mississippi College 3-0 in Gulf South Conference volleyball Friday night. Williams set a school record with a .941 hitting percentage. (Katrina Chatfield had the old mark of .875 in a 1998 match.) Sadie Johnson and Haley Foote had 25 and 20 assists, Foote with three aces, in the 25-17, 25-13, 25-12 romp for the Lady Flames (8-16, 5-9), and Stephanie Hernandez had 12 digs.

• Tennessee Temple improved to 19-11 in volleyball this season with a clutch 3-1 win Friday at Cumberland University (12-15) in Lebanon, Tenn. Victoria Smith had 12 kills and Naomi Posada had 10 kills plus 29 digs in the 22-25, 26-24, 26-24, 25-18 showing for the Lady Crusaders, while Shatoya Medford had nine kills, 20 digs and five solo blocks. Lydia Vick also had nine kills, and Kiara Govan set 38 assists.

• The Bryan College volleyball team lost 3-1 to the NAIA's 14th-ranked Davenport (25-20, 16-25, 25-18, 25-20) and 3-1 also to No. 13 Columbia (Mo.) on Friday in the Boneyard Brawl tournament at Georgetown, Ky. That dropped the Lady Lions to 20-6 for the season; Columbia is 27-4.

Softball

• North Murray High School senior Baylee Sutton signed scholarship papers Friday to continue her softball career at Tennessee Temple University. Sutton, who batted .343 with three home runs this season, played shortstop for the Mountaineers but likely will play third base for Temple. "She's really a solid infielder. She's a solid ballplayer all around," Lady Crusaders coach Randy Crawford said. "We feel we're getting somebody who can help us step up to the next level." Crawford saw her first when she was a junior and then watched her play "several times" this past summer and in the 2014 high school season. "I love the atmosphere of the college and the coaches and players -- all of it," Sutton said. "And the fact it's a Christian college is one of the main things. That was important to me."

Soccer

• Covenant College's Snoopy Davidson took 10 shots, four of them on goal, and the one that got through in the 67th minute stood up for a 1-0 USA South men's soccer win Friday against Averett. The Covenant women added a 2-1 win in the Lookout Mountain doubleheader. Davidson scored from a Michael Arango cross for the Scots (10-4-2, 6-1-1), who are listed sixth in the NCAA Division III South Atlantic rankings. They outshot Averett 19-6, with a 13-2 second-half margin. For the Lady Scots (8-8-1, 6-3), Anna Porch and Christy Barton sandwiched second-half goals assisted by Beth Logan (Ruth Terry also helping on Barton's) around a Cathrine Onarheim score for Averett.

• The Lee University women's soccer team began a Gulf South doubleheader Friday in Memphis with a dramatic 2-1 win over Christian Brothers University. Lee's Michelle Spangler broke a scoreless tie with a Kinsey Cichowitz assist off a corner kick 20 minutes into the second half, and Morgan Sandifer scored the winner with seven seconds left in official time. The Lady Flames (9-4-1, 8-1) had an 11-3 edge in shots in the final half, 13-6 for the game. CBU won the men's game 2-0 despite being outshot 17-9.

• Mercer beat UTC 8-1 in SoCon women's soccer Friday night at Finley Stadium. Only Kim Murphy with the last two goals scored more than once for the Bears (11-4-2, 6-0-2). Melanie Arredondo netted a free kick for UTC (1-15-1, 0-8) at 55:17, making the score 4-1.

• The Sewanee women's soccer team beat visiting Millsaps 2-1, but the Sewanee guys fell 4-2 to the Majors in a Southern Athletic Association doubleheader Friday. All the scoring in the women's game was in the second half, when seniors Emily Driver and Grace Priest scored from assists by Jamie Samociuk, the team's other senior, and Sissy Frank for the Tigers (11-4, 4-1). Priest's goal came in the 87th minute, after Millsaps (2-10-1, 0-5) equalized in the 72nd. In the men's game, Millsaps (10-5, 4-1) led 3-0 at halftime, but Sewanee (5-8-1, 2-2-1) got second-half goals from Chris Haberstroh and Teddy Benjamin. Ramsey Seagle assisted on Haberstroh's.

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