UTC's Hogan SoCon soccer player of week and more Chattanooga region sports news

Dalton State College junior Spencer Head from Casmas, Wash., was the SSAC men's cross country runner of the week after leading the Roadrunners to victory with a first-place individual finish in the North Georgia Invitational.
Dalton State College junior Spencer Head from Casmas, Wash., was the SSAC men's cross country runner of the week after leading the Roadrunners to victory with a first-place individual finish in the North Georgia Invitational.
photo Dalton State College junior Spencer Head from Casmas, Wash., was the SSAC men's cross country runner of the week after leading the Roadrunners to victory with a first-place individual finish in the North Georgia Invitational.

Samantha Hogan is the first Southern Conference soccer player of the week from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in four seasons. Hogan, a junior from Gallatin, Tenn., was honored after scoring the late tying goal and assisting on the winner in the last second of overtime against UAB. She then helped the Mocs (2-6-1) tie 1-1 at Tennessee Tech on Sunday.

* The Lee University men's soccer team pulled out a 3-2 win Tuesday with two-second half goals against North Georgia at Dahlonega. Travis Kiger scored for Lee (5-2) from a David Perez assist in the 10th minute, but the hosts took a 2-1 lead with goals in the 20th and 26th minutes. Perez netted a 25-yard rocket over the keeper from a Quade Marinell pass in the 61st minute, and Flames freshman Jose Orellano broke the tie with an unassisted goal, his first as a college player, at 66:56. North Georgia had a 15-12 edge in shots. Perez leads Lee with seven goals this season.

Golf

* Stuart Thomas finished fourth individually at 4-under-par 212 in leading the UTC men's golfers to a fifth-pace team finish at 875 in the Janney VCU Shootout that finished Tuesday at the Country Club of Virginia's Tuckahoe Creek Course in Richmond. James Madison won by nine strokes at 857. East Carolina, UNC Greensboro and Iowa State also finished ahead of the Mocs in the 13-team field. UTC's Brooks Thomas and Andrew Weathers tied for 24th at 221, and Wes Gosselin tied for 36th at 223.

* The UTC women's golf team wound up 12th out of 14 teams as the Mercedes-Benz Championships ended Tuesday at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville. Kent State won with a 54-hole total of 847, and host Tennessee was second at 856 with Blakesley Warren from Chattanooga tying for 18th with a 219 as the Vols' fourth best score. UTC's total was 908, led by Emily McLennan in a tie for 34th individually at 223. Cris Perez tied for 48th at 226, and Megan Woods and Sarah Dolmovich shot 232s.

* The Lee men's golf team finished second Tuesday at 850, six shots behind 13th-ranked host Columbus State, in the 16-team Aflac/Cougar Invitational at the Country Club of Columbus. But Lee's Peyton Sliger was the medalist with a 6-under-par 207, closing with two 68s, and Taylor Davis tied for eighth at 212. The Flames' Adam Wright was in the group sharing 15th at 214, and Shea Sylvester tied for 32nd at 219.

Running

* Dalton State had both Southern States Athletic Conference cross country runners of the week after Spencer Head and Emily Poole were the individual winners at the North Georgia Invitational meet Saturday at Oakwood, Ga. Head broke his own 8-kilometer course record by 28 seconds with a 25:26 for the team champion Roadrunners. The Dalton State women finished fourth in the 170-runner 6k, but Poole was the overall winner by four-tenths of a second with her 22:41.3. She's a freshman from Heritage High School.

* Tennessee Wesleyan seniors Jacob Simmons and Robbiccaa Williams were the Appalachian Athletic Conference cross country runners of the week. Williams was the women's 5k winner in 18:57.6 with the Lady Bulldogs taking the team title at the Berea College Invitational, and Crossville resident Simmons was ninth out of 90 runners in the 5-mile men's race, where he finished in 27:19.7 and TWC was fourth as a team.

Volleyball

* Brooke Wilsman and Silvia Sartori registered 17 and 16 kills and 10 and 18 digs as Lee University rallied to edge visiting Christian Brothers 3-2 (22-25, 25-22, 13-25, 25-21, 15-12) in Gulf South Conference volleyball Tuesday. Hillary Hoffpauir had 31 assists and Sadie Johnson added 17 for Lee (5-3, 1-3), while Stephanie Hernandez had 22 digs. Catherine Conley and Blaire Beamer each had nine kills in the win.

* Bryan College junior Shelby Grace Enochs was the AAC volleyball setter of the week for the second time in a row. She totaled 121 assists and 31 digs with two double-doubles in three matches, including 51 assists in a 3-2 win over Reinhardt. She leads the AAC in assists (562) and assists per set (9.2)

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