Southern Conference wrestling coaches are predicting a first-place deadlock between the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Appalachian State. Each garnered three first-place votes and 44 total points in the coaches' poll released Thursday, and Gardner-Webb was third out of eight teams with 40. The Mocs' Mike Pongracz (141) and Scottie Boykin (197) were selected to the league's preseason team. Kamaal Shakur, the Mocs' 157-pound SoCon champion, was not listed. He was dismissed from the team by coach Heath Eslinger, but the door might be open for him to return. Freshman Dylanger Potter edged Pongracz 7-5 and fifth-year senior Clay Dent nipped Boykin 3-2 in UTC's Blue-Gold intrasquad match Thursday night at Chamberlain Field, where other winners were Bryce Carr, Alonzo Allen, Chris Debien, Roman Boylen, Dylan Forzani, Justin Lampe, Sean Mappes and Jared Johnson in a 17-15 Gold victory.
Soccer
- Covenant College midfielder Summer Bader and goalkeeper Rachel Lemay made the All-USA South women's soccer first team announced Thursday, and they were joined on the All-USAS West Division first team by forward Anna Porch and defender Andrea Hunt Roylston, who also was the Lady Scots' all-sportsmanship representative. Covenant defenders Callie Bader and Kaitlyn Winking made the West second team,.
- Kincey Cichowitz scored two goals and Lauren Peters and McKenzie Bricker scored from assists by Katie Cloud and Kaela Leskovar as the Lee women won 4-2 at Valdosta State in Gulf South soccer Thursday night. All the scoring was in the first half, and Kayla Robles had both VSU goals. Lee is 13-2-1, 10-1 in the league.
- Dalton State goalkeeper Rachel Hardin was the Southern States Athletic Conference and NAIA national women's defensive player of the week for her 12 saves in a 1-0 defeat of Brenau.
- Rafael Mentzingen had two goals and an assist and Brad Spooner had a goal and two assists in Bryan College's first men's soccer loss of the season Wednesday, 4-3 to visiting Montreat in overtime. Montreat's Raphael Duarte scored a tying goal in the 70th minute and assisted on Henrique Cardoso's game-winner in the second minute of extra time as the Cavaliers dropped the NAIA's 10th-ranked Lions to 13-1-3, 6-1-1 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.