Sewanee freshman safety William Phillips from Nashville was the Southern Athletic Association football defensive player of the week for his first collegiate game, a 45-20 win over Kenyon, and that performance also landed him on the D3Football.com national team of the week. Phillips scored on a school-record 98-yard fumble return that turned an imminent 14-0 deficit into a sudden 7-7 tie, and he also contributed two of the Tigers' five interceptions and displayed some speed and nifty moves on kickoff and punt returns. He totaled 46 yards on his interception returns, one of which set up a touchdown drive, and was credited with two solo tackles. The only other SAA player who made the D3Football.com team was Rhodes linebacker Trent Holt.
Soccer
* Sewanee goalkeeper Samantha Bourgeois was the SAA women's soccer defensive player of the week for her 18 saves in two matches last weekend at the Meredith Classic. She had nine saves in each and allowed only one goal in the two. Tuesday night she had four saves as the Tigers lost 1-0 in their home opener against Maryville. Bailey Sipos netted a 19-yard shot in the 20th minute from a Shannon Reagan assist.
* The Bryan College soccer matches scheduled for Tuesday at home against the Shorter women and Pikeville men were reset for today, still at 4:30 and 7 p.m.
Volleyball
* Quinne Daoust and Silvia Sartori had nine and eight kills and Allie Koepfer served five aces as the Lee University volleyball team won 3-0 Tuesday night at Trevecca Nazarene. Set scores were 25-17, 25-17, 25-17. Sadie Johnson had 19 assists and nine digs and MaKayla Beebe had 10 digs in the sweep for the Lady Flames (4-1). In a series that began in 1968, Lee now holds a 40-7 advantage.
Basketball
* Lawrenceville, Ga., native Alex Ireland has rejoined Tony Ingle, the Dalton State men's basketball coach. Ireland is Ingle's new assistant coach after serving as a manager for him at Kennesaw State. Ingle won national championships at both schools. Ireland graduated from KSU in 2012 and spent the 2012-13 season as a high school assistant coach at North Cobb Christian, which had six NCAA Division I signees. Then he was a graduate assistant at Valdosta State for two years and worked a season each at Alcorn State and UT-Martin as an assistant coach. UTM's Skyhawks had 21 wins last year, the most for the program in its Division I history.
Cross Country
* Tennessee Wesleyan dominated the women's 4k and the Bryan College men finished second out of five teams in the Reinhardt Cross Country Invitational 6k last weekend at Canton, Ga., where the host Eagles had the top three men's finishers and five of the top seven. Wesleyan's Hannah Rhodes and Mysteree Bottoroff battled to a close one-two finish in the 4k, 15:16.12 and 15:16.19, and teammates Hailey Polillo, Rachel Gallison, Rosa Cisneros, Keupper Feehan and Hailey Coudrieti were fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth with another Lady Bulldog 11th out of 60 runners. Bryan's Isabella Dawson was 13th in 16:23.81, and Madison Guider and Matilda Lee from Cleveland State's new team were 20th and 22nd in 17:02.51 and 17:33.49 with teammates Whitney McConnell and Emily Colbaugh 27th and 29th. TWU's Antonio Alejos, T.J. Tupps and Cody Demalavez were fifth, eighth and 11th in the men's race in 20:41.10, 20:52.62 and 21:25.51 with Tim Murphy 16th, and Bryan's Brady Smith, Dustin Reynolds and Jeffrey Cochran were ninth, 10th and 13th in 21:02.09, 21:20.13 and 21:54.28 with Blake Revlett 21st. Cleveland State's Cougars were fifth with all five runners finishing 23rd to 31st, led by Luis Perez in 23:36.91.
Softball
* The Lady Moc RBI Club will meet Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's softball indoor practice facility, and the public is invited. Mocs coach Frank Reed will introduce the team's new players and discuss the fall schedule of games and events.