Fourth seed Tennessee Wesleyan topped seventh seed Bryan 2-0 with second-half scores by Amy Panayi and Nicole Broderick in the Appalachian Athletic Conference women's soccer tournament final Friday at Athens, Tenn. Panayi's was a penalty kick after Broderick was fouled in the box. TWU's Emiley Saddler was voted most valuable player and joined on the all-tournament team by Broderick, Els van Hooijdonk and Jessica Young from the Lady Bulldogs (13-5-2) and Morgana Hardt da Silva, Ruth Rosales and Paige Klose of Bryan (10-10-2).
* Regular-season champion Union College edged No. 2 seed Bryan 1-0 in overtime in the AAC men's soccer final at Barbourville, Ky., and is 18-2-1. Bryan (16-2-3) outshot the Bulldogs 17-8 and placed Jason Ward, Jordan Dunstan and Rafael Mentzingen on the all-tournament team that also included Tennessee Wesleyan's Fernando Carcomo and Joe Taylor.
* Fifth-seeded Lee University scored the first two goals but lost 3-2 in overtime to fourth seed Rollins in the NCAA Division II South Region women's soccer tournament at Miami Shores, Fla. McKenzie Bricker netted long shots at 27:17 and 30:56 for Lee (14-3-2), the first assisted by Summer Lanter, but Paxton Sickler scored two second-half goals and assisted on the winner at 99:58 for Rollins (11-3-3).
* Dalton State lost 1-0 to William Carey in the Southern States Athletic Conference men's soccer championship game Friday night at Montgomery, Ala.
Alexis WilsonRunning
* Tyner senior Alexis Wilson has signed to continue her track and field career at Liberty University in NCAA Division I. The Class A/AA state champion in the 100- and 200-meter dashes as a freshman and the 100 and 4x100-relay runner-up as a sophomore, Wilson came back most of the way from injury last spring and finished third in the 100 and fourth in the 4x100. Her best 100 time is 11.93 seconds. "Liberty is getting a very athletic young lady and strong sprinter," Tyner coach Kelvin Watkins said. Wilson, who wants to be a nurse and also had considerable interest from Shorter, Union University and Alabama A&M, said she picked Liberty because "it has a great team and great coaches, and its nursing program is outstanding - and it's a Christian school." She spent 13 years in the Chattanooga Jets AAU program before joining the new Chattanooga Thunder club.
Basketball
* Carrie Cheeks scored 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting from the field and had 16 rebounds as Lee University opened its women's basketball season with a 93-65 win Friday over Saint Leo at Lakeland, Fla. Erin Walsh added 14 points with four 3-point baskets and Haley Cornellison had 13 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three steals.
* Chattanooga State's men are 4-0 after opening TCCAA play with an 85-81 defeat of visiting Dyersburg State, and Da'V Moore continued his double-double average with 23 points and 15 rebounds. Dyersburg won the women's game.
* Elijah Weems scored 28 points, Victor Curry had 17 plus 12 rebounds and Tevin Olison tallied 16 points in Cleveland State's 81-73 home win over Southwest Tennessee. Cleveland's Lady Cougars (3-1) won 62-53.
Volleyball
* Freshman Claire McMasters stepped up with 15 kills and Brooke Wilsman added 11 plus 18 digs as Lee's volleyball team secured a spot in the six-team Gulf South Conference tournament with a 3-1 win Friday night against visiting Mississippi College. The set scores were 24-26, 25-16, 25-11, 25-19. Carly Callahan had 10 kills and Sadie Johnson and Kristi Farley had 30 and 20 assists for Lee (15-14, 10-10), while MaKayla Beebe had 22 digs.
* Top-seeded Union College beat fifth seed Tennessee Wesleyan 3-0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-22) in the AAC volleyball semifinals Friday in Kingsport, Tenn., where No. 2 Milligan fell 3-1 to third seed St. Andrews despite 35 assists and 11 digs from Kellee Geren and nine kills from another Cleveland High alum, Marissa Langford. For Wesleyan (16-18), Sundara Chinn had 12 kills and Alexan Crittenden had 26 assists.
* The Dalton State volleyball team ended its season Friday with two pool-play losses at the SSAC tournament in Montgomery: 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, 25-20) to Coastal Georgia and 3-1 (25-28, 25-23, 25-18, 28-26) to Loyola of New Orleans.