University of Alabama senior chemical engineering major Caroline Hensley from Hixson won the women's slalom title for the second consecutive year in the 2012 National Water Ski Championships going on at Zachary, La. Hensley beat out more than 50 other skiers from the 12 Division I teams that qualified for the nationals. The Baylor School graduate is a four-year college All-American and has won IWSF junior and U21 world championships.
Soccer
• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team lost 5-0 to visiting Elon in a Southern Conference match Friday night at Finley Stadium. Catherine Brinkman scored two first-half goals for the Phoenix (6-6-6, 4-1-4), and Olivia Mackey, Nicole Dennion and Taylor Glenn added second-half scores. Lauren Thomas made five saves for UTC (3-11-1, 1-8), which hosts UNC Greensboro on Sunday. The Lady Mocs' top scoring threat, Becca Smith, got hurt and did not play in the second half.
• The Sewanee men's soccer team edged Rhodes 2-1 in a Southern Athletic Association doubleheader Friday in Memphis, but the Rhodes women won 2-0. Ford Rushton scored in the 20th minute and Nate Owens scored from a Samuel Edoung-Biyo pass in the second for the Sewanee men (4-9-2), and Jacob Zalewski made five saves.
• Emory University overcame three Tyler Morrison goals in edging Covenant College 4-3 in overtime in NCAA Division III men's soccer Friday night in Atlanta. Morrison gave the Scots (7-8-1) leads of 1-0 and 2-1 on assists from Noah Wiersema and Roy Anderson and made it 3-3 at 87:24, but Dylan Price's score at 96:19 from Jeffrey Cochran's second assist of the match won for the Eagles (8-5-2). Shuler Polk had 10 saves for Covenant.
• Senior Heidi Steger from Ooltewah High School scored the goal in King College's 1-0 win over visiting Erskine in Conference Carolinas women's soccer Thursday.
Volleyball
• Shorter University edged visiting Lee University 25-22, 18-25, 25-20, 21-25, 16-14 in a volleyball matchup of former league rivals Thursday night, and Jordan Corder broke the career assists record for the Rome school. Her 55 Thursday for the Lady Hawks (15-5) gave her 3,993. Jasmine Crook had 19 kills for Shorter, matching Marija Zelenovic for Lee (19-7), which had defeated the Lady Hawks in their last 11 meetings. Paula Martins and Nicole Sumida added 15 and 12 kills for the Lady Flames, while Camil Martinez had 54 assists and 10 digs and Irene Ojukwu made 21 digs to go with 13 for Libby Peigen.
• First-place Bryan College fell to 11-2 in Appalachian Athletic Conference volleyball and 22-9 overall with a 25-19, 25-25, 25-22 loss Friday night at fourth-place Montreat College. Carolyn Evans had 11 kills, Kaylan Dilts had eight and Chelsea Breaden had seven plus 11 digs for Bryan, while Taylor Fink had 30 assists and Corrie Walker had 17 digs.
• Carson-Newman lost 3-2 to Newberry in South Atlantic Conference volleyball Friday despite 22 kills and 25 digs for Rachel Harper from Boyd-Buchanan and 51 assists by Kristen Pickett from Cleveland.
• UTC is hosting two Southern Conference volleyball matches this weekend in Maclellan Gymnasium, at 2 p.m. today against Davidson and at 3 p.m. Sunday against Georgia Southern in a "Dig Pink" tribute to breast cancer awareness. The Mocs are 9-14, 3-5 in the SoCon and tied for third place in the North Division. Davidson (8-10, 4-4) is fourth in the South Division headed by GSU (16-6, 7-1).
• Michelle Morgan from Chattanooga had 10 kills against Tuskegee and nine against Huntingdon in a Salem College volleyball road trip last weekend. The 2010 graduate of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School is third on the Salem team with 91 kills and is tied for the team lead in total blocks.
Tennis
• UTC freshman tennis players Kayla Jones and Jovana Pecovski won two singles matches each Thursday to enter the main draw in the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships at West Lafayette, Ind. Classmate Kelsey Jones won her firs match and lost 6-4, 7-6(4) in her chance to make the main draw. Lady Mocs senior Jenna Nurik, junior Alexa Flynn and sophomore Kaylene Chadwell already were in the main draw for Friday, as were Chadwell with Nurik and Jones with Claire Mulyadi in doubles. The Lady Mocs all went to consolation brackets in their first singles matches Friday, although Nurik and Chadwell beat Louisville's Mandy Brown and Stefanie Villajuan in doubles before losing to the fifth seeds from Kentucky.
• All four UTC men's tennis players taking part in the USTA/ITA Division I Ohio Valley men's regional tournament Friday at Memphis advanced in singles. All four are seniors. Jackson Tresnan won 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 over Xavier's Adam Krull; Manuel Barroetavena won 7-5, 6-3 over Eastern Kentucky's Florian Graskamp; Ankit Chopra won 6-2, 6-0 over EKU's Jan Dombrowski; and Roberto Vieira had a bye. Tresnan/Barroetavena and Chopra/Vieira each won and lost in doubles.
Golf
• Seven-time Georgia State Golf Association men's player of the year David Noll Jr. of Dalton headlines the GSGA amateur team that will play members of the Georgia Section PGA Sunday and Monday in the annual Billy Peters Cup Matches at Capital City Club-Brookhaven in Atlanta. This will be the sixth consecutive year for Noll in the Peters Cup competition, and he has been 6-2-2 in matches in the last five. Noll already has won the Georgia Mid-Amateur and Atlanta Amateur Match Play championships this year.