Tennessee Wesleyan won 111-79 in its Appalachian Athletic Conference men's basketball game Tuesday night at Point University, but the Point women won 67-59 in the doubleheader and are 19-5 overall, 12-5 in the league. Hunter Simpson had 19 points and four assists in defeat for the Lady Bulldogs (12-11, 10-7), and Madison Walkup had 10 points and eight rebounds. For the TWU men (15-8, 10-6), Johnson Decembre led six double-figure scorers with 17 points, while Tre Tiller had 16 plus four assists, Lenny Pradia and Aundre Reid scored 15 and 14 points and Todd Lansden and Will Gardner added 12 and 10. The Bulldogs shot 59.7 percent from the field and hit 14 of 27 3-point shots, with Reid making four of six 3s and Pradia and Decembre each going 3-for-3.
- Amber Levi scored 20 points and Kaylee Smith, Tristan McClellan and Maebry McNeese added 15, 12 and 11 as the Bryan College women won their AAC game at Columbia (S.C.) College, 76-65. Megan Billingsby had seven rebounds and Tonesha Allison combined three steals with nine points for Bryan (11-12, 9-8). Briana Johnson scored 26 points for Columbia.
- Erika Woodfin from Dade County hit a 3-point shot with 0.4 second to play to give Reinhardt a 69-67 AAC women's victory Wednesday at St. Andrews and a one-game lead over second-place Milligan in the league standings. Those were Woodfin's only points of the game for the Lady Eagles (22-3, 14-3), but freshmen Rebecca Cheeks from Sonoraville High School and Bethany Headrick from Ringgold scored 20 points apiece with 11 and nine rebounds - plus three blocked shots for Cheeks.
- The Georgia Northwestern men's basketball team outlasted visiting Welch College on Tuesday, 49-45, but Welch beat the Lady Bobcats 70-19. Daniel Parrish scored 15 points and Darrius Fugh had 10 points and eight rebounds for the Bobcats (9-8), who jumped to an 18-2 lead but trailed 37-31 with 13 minutes to play. The GNTC women (0-13) were led by Sharqueva McCoy with eight points and eight rebounds.
Tennis
- Wesley Cash of Chattanooga and doubles partner Mark Vines of Naples, Fla., the No. 1 seeds, won 6-0, 6-0 Wednesday in the men's 60 doubles round of 16 at the West Coast (Fla.) Super Senior Grand Prix tournament at The Club at Sterling Oaks in Naples. They beat Mark Duffy of Naples and David Flanagan of Loudon, Tenn.
Softball
- Lee began its softball season with two close home wins Wednesday against Montevallo, 5-4 and 9-7. Freshman catcher Bailey Church ended the first game with an RBI single, giving freshman Taylor Moran the pitching win with one inning of no-hit, two-strikeout relief after junior Leigh Beatenbough gave up two earned runs in six innings. Kayla Louie, another Lee freshman, was 2-for-3 and scored twice and classmate Zoe Miller doubled in a run and scored. Freshman pitcher Abby McKinney got the win in game two and was 2-for-2 with two RBIs, while Moran had a two-run homer and a save and senior Courtney Crawford was 4-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Lee scored six runs in the first inning and three in the second.
Lacrosse
- Tennessee Wesleyan is ranked No. 7 in the preseason NAIA Top 10 poll for women's lacrosse, the national office announced Tuesday. SCAD Savannah is No. 2 behind Davenport (Mich.), and Reinhardt is No. 10.
- The Southern Conference announced Tuesday that it is adding women's lacrosse as the league's 22nd varsity sport. Furman, Mercer and Wofford will begin SoCon play in the 2017-18 school year with associate members Central Michigan, Delaware State and Detroit Mercer. Those three, Furman and Mercer are competing now in the 11-member ASUN Conference. "This is a meaningful step for both the Southern Conference and the six members who will compete for our championship," commissioner John Iamarino said in a league release. "It enables our three full-time programs to bring another sport under the SoCon umbrella."