Flames rise to 6-0; Lady Flames fall

Lee University's men's basketball Flames improved to 6-0 by winning their Southern States Athletic Conference opener Friday night, 87-67 at Auburn-Montgomery.

Will Barnes scored 21 points, Chase Dunn had 19 points and six assists and Corey Billingsley had 15 points for Lee, ranked 15th in NAIA Division I.

The unranked Auburn-Montgomery women went to 6-0 with a 54-49 win over the ninth-ranked Lady Flames, who took a 47-45 lead with 3:08 to go. Hollie German scored 17 points for Lee (3-1, 0-1), and Brooke Hamby had six assists. AUM's LaKenya Drayton had 22 points with 11 rebounds and made 14 of 18 free throws. She scored six points in the last three minutes.

* At McKenzie, Tenn., Hampton Mack had 16 points, six rebounds and four steals as Tennessee Temple beat Missouri Valley College 66-57. P.J. Whittaker had 10 points and five steals and Travaris Clarke and Rashaud Bell each scored nine points for the Crusaders.

* At Lookout Mountain, Covenant's Scots downed Emory & Henry 66-60 as Callum Sears scored 13 points, Colton McGriff contributed 12 points and eight rebounds and T.J. Cox and Chris Boyd had 10 points each. The Wasps' Malcolm Green had 23 points.

* At Columbia, Tenn., Cleveland State swept a TCCAA doubleheader with the Lady Cougars downing Columbia State 65-51 and the undefeated Cougars winning 91-70 as Travis Jones scored 30 points and Ralph Eason had 18 points and nine steals. Chelsea Jones, Robyn Anthony and Ciera Anderson had 10 points each in the women's win, Jones with eight rebounds.

Women's Games

CLEVELAND STATE 65,

COLUMBIA STATE 51

Cleveland State (3-3, 1-2 TCCAA)

Taylor 9, Anderson 10, Brown 4, Martinez 4, Bonds, Nunn 1, Anthony 10, Gasper 8, Owens 7, Freeman, Jones 10, Fetzer 2.

Columbia State (0-6, 0-3)

Wisener 2, Benford 3, Dunlap 11, Brown 7, Givens 2, Franklin 3, Taylor 11, Williams 5, Thomas 2.

Halftime: Cleveland State, 33-12.

AUBURN-MONTGOMERY 54, LEE 49

Lee (3-1, 0-1 SSAC)

Lockhart 2, Hamby 6, Adams 5, German 17, Iles 8, Jackson 2, Zimmerman, Miller 5, Barker, Johnson 4.

Auburn-Montgomery (6-0, 1-0)

Strong 5, Williams 11, Drayton 22, Schwartz, Moore 4, Cunningham 5, Maize 2, Bennett 4, Jackson, Rush, Odume 1.

Halftime: Lee, 24-19.

Men's Games

CLEVELAND STATE 91,

COLUMBIA STATE 70

Cleveland State (6-0, 3-0 TCCAA)

Jones 30, Eason 18, Suttles 8, Goncalves 10, McPherson, Swift 2, Everette, Triplett 13, Okoro 4, Dando 6.

Columbia State

Green 5, Clifton 2, Carter 7, Akinkugbe 6, Bremers 9, Scrife 9, Martin 6, Dodd 2, Craig 7, House 11, Wray, Webster 2, Hobson 4.

Halftime: Cleveland State, 51-31.

COVENANT 66, EMORY & HENRY 60

Emory & Henry (0-1)

Turner 9, Mullins 4, Brown, Terrell 6, Smith 4, Green 23, Murrell 12, Gibson, Pearman, Lett, Coles, Schwartz 2, Anzenberger.

Covenant (1-1)

Frierson, Mutcherson 6, Sears 13, McGriff 12, Danek 4, Cox 10, Boyd 10, Engbers 5, Delaney 2, Ferguson, Bowman 4, Moss.

Halftime: Covenant, 41-35.

LEE 87, AUBURN-MONTGOMERY 67

Lee (6-0, 1-0 SSAC)

Dunn 19, Blue 9, Barnes 21, Shaughnessy 4, Bennett 8, Billingsley 15, Lee 2, Bawa 7, Woods 2, Forhetz, Johnson, Ramsey.

Auburn-Montgomery (1-3, 0-1)

Davis 2, Jackson 10, Ellis 6, Wilis 17, Acoff 12, Person 5, Harrell, Bickham 15, Jnoes, Prewitt.

Halftime: Lee, 35-34.

TENNESSEE TEMPLE 66,

MISSOURI VALLEY 57

Missouri Valley

Pope 8, Brown 3, Connor 17, Epps 13, Stander 14, Tompson, Thomas 1, Smith 1, Diatta, Williams, Stapp, Wiegard.

Tennessee Temple

Mack 16, Sanders 8, Quinn, Beauvil 5, Jones 6, Whittaker 10, Bell 9, Clarke 9, Walker, Slade 3, Riek.

Halftime: Missouri Valley, 30-28.

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