Hannah Torbett scored a golden goal to lead the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to a 2-1 overtime victory against Mercer in Southern Conference soccer Sunday at Finley Stadium. It's the third straight win for the Mocs (5-7-1, 3-1), who are off to their best start in SoCon play since 2004. "I'm delighted for the girls," coach Gavin McKinney said in a UTC release. "We had a rough start with out-of-conference play. We dropped a lot of games by a goal, but we kept preaching to them that it's got to be about the SoCon play for us." Ellie Myrick staked UTC to a 1-0 lead a little more than two minutes after kickoff, converting a cross from Peyton McCollum, but Logan Culver scored in the 40th minute for Mercer (3-8-1, 1-3) and the match remained tied until the 92nd minute. Torbett, a freshman midfielder, notched her second goal of the season - the other came in Friday's 1-0 win against The Citadel - when she headed in McKenzie Gregg's free kick that was set up by a foul a little more than a minute into overtime. Mercer finished with a 13-8 advantage on shots, but Melia Correa made eight saves to help keep the Mocs' winning streak intact.
- Lee University's soccer teams swept a Gulf South Conference doubleheader Sunday at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., with the women winning 1-0 and the men rolling 3-0. Jose Orellana and David Perez each had a goal and an assist to lead the Flames ( 7-3, 2-0), who also got a goal from Drew Jackson, an assist from Jake Molony and eight saves from Daniel Hrenko. Kristen Francis made eight saves for the Lady Flames (7-1-1, 4-0), who prevailed on Kinsey Cichowitz's 86th-minute goal off Summer Lanter's assist.
- Dalton State College won two Southern States Athletic Conference overtime games Saturday against visiting Middle Georgia State, 2-1 for the women and 4-3 for the men. Juliana Gomez assisted on goals by Brittany Jensen and Adriana Romero for the DSC women (6-2-1, 2-0), and Rury Alvarez had two goals and Emmanuel Olusanya netted the winner from a Santiago Moore cross with four seconds left in the second extra period for the men (8-0-1, 2-0). Alvarez tied the match with less than two minutes left in regulation.
Golf
- UTC's women's golfers shared 11th place after the first day of the Cougar Classic at Yeamans Hall Club in Hanahan, S.C., near Charleston. The Mocs shot a 3-over-par 291 Sunday and are tied with Penn State - two strokes behind Louisville and one stroke ahead of Maryland. Furman leads the 21-team field at 278, three shots ahead of North Carolina and four in front of Wake Forest. Maddy McDanel shot a 1-under-par 71 to lead the Mocs and is tied for 22nd among 108 golfers, five shots off tournament leader Sierra Sims of Wake Forest. Sims, one of 29 players under par, has a one-shot edge on Furman's Haylee Harford. Also playing for UTC are Monica San Juan (72), Cristina Perez (73), Holly Morgan (75) and Megan Woods (82).
Cross Country
- Covenant's Lilly Smith was the women's individual winner and her NCAA Division III team and the Covenant men finished second to Division II member Carson-Newman in the Maryville College Invitational on Saturday. Smith ran the 6-kilometer course in 25 minutes, 20 seconds, and teammate Hannah Smith was fourth with Margaret Fitch, Anna Danek and Caroline Pepper 10th, 13th and 17th. Covenant's Micah Sneller was fourth in the men's 8k, and Caleb Keitt, Nathan Bierema, Phil Carrenard and Phil Moore were 11th, 14th, 16th and 17th.
Volleyball
- Sewanee lost 3-0 to visiting Hendrix in a Southern Athletic Association match Sunday, with the set scores 25-16, 25-22 and 25-17. Constance Connolly had 10 digs and nine assists for the Tigers (8-7, 2-5).
Field Hockey
- Carrie Anderson had two assists as Sewanee won 3-0 in SAA play Sunday at Hendrix. Virginia Barry, Ceara Caffrey and Emily Sloan scored for the Tigers (4-6, 1-2), Kat Mulligan had an assist and Katya Waters made three saves.