Around the Region: UTC soccer ties Tennessee Tech

Around the Region
Around the Region

* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team had to settle for a 1-1 tie after double overtime Sunday at Tennessee Tech. The Mocs (2-6-1) surrendered a goal in the 21st minute when Mary Francis Hoots sent Karigan Owens' corner kick into the net, but UTC responded with its own corner-kick score in the 65th minute as Amanda Ortiz headed in a cross from McKenzie Gregg. Both teams finished with 17 shots, but Tennessee Tech (2-4-3) had a 7-6 edge in shots on goal. UTC held the advantage in corners, 7-5, and Katie Emig made five saves for the Mocs.

* Tomide Adabale scored four goals and Dalton State College's men's soccer team continued its first-season success in the NAIA with an 8-0 win over Fisk University on Sunday in Nashville. All but one goal - former Southeast Whitfield High School standout Isael Guiterrez scored with an assist from fellow freshman Grant Dupertuis - came in the second half. Emmanuel Olusanya, Ibrahim Sissoko and Jose Daniel Villalobos also scored for the Roadrunners (6-1-1), with Connor Curran and Andres Pena each credited with an assist. Freshman goalkeepers Curran and Diego Gonzales shared time in the shutout. Adabale pushed his season goals total to 11.

* Sewanee's men's soccer team dropped to 2-4-1 with a 5-0 home loss to Methodist on Sunday. Methodist led 3-0 at halftime and finished the game with a 14-7 advantage on shots.

* Lee University's women's soccer team is 2-3-1 overall after losing its Gulf South Conference opener 3-0 Sunday night at North Alabama. Lee trailed 1-0 at halftime, but North Alabama added a goal in the 62nd minute before pushing the margin to its final total in the 76th minute. Lee held a 5-1 advantage on corner kicks, but North Alabama took 12 shots to the Lady Flames' 8, with the on-goal advantage 8-4.

* Four soccer organizations in Hamilton County received a total of $42,500 from the Scenic City Cup youth tournament held May 2-3. The groups that worked with the Chattanooga Sports Committee to run the tournament and later benefited from its proceeds are the Chattanooga Football Club Academy, the East Ridge Futbol Club and the North River and Redoubt soccer associations. "All of these great organizations came together to create the SCC in an effort to maximize the potential of a community soccer event," Sports Committee president Tim Morgan said in a recent release. "The 2015 event had an impressive $1 million estimated impact in Hamilton County." The Scenic City Cup began in 2013 and has grown to include 183 teams this year.

Golf

* Former UTC golfer Jordan Britt finished tied for fourth Sunday in the Symetra Tour's Garden City (Kan.) Charity Classic. Britt, who prepped at GPS and Signal Mountain, closed with a par round of 72 and finished the 54-hole tournament at 3-under-par 213, five strokes behind winner Vicky Hurst. Britt began Sunday in second place, also five strokes behind Hurst.

Volleyball

* Sewanee lost 3-0 to Hendrix in Southern Athletic Association volleyball Sunday in Conway, Ark., falling 25-15, 25-13, 25-23. Walker Buxton's nine kills and 11 assists led Sewanee (8-4, 1-2), while Peyton Parent had 13 digs and Diamond Stewart added 10 digs for the Tigers.

Football

* Quarterback Tucker Pope of Lake Forest Middle School in Cleveland was the subject of a feature article written recently for the National Football Academies' NFANation online publication by award-winning Chicago News Herald sportswriter Scot Gregor. He wrote the story after Lake Forest's 4-0 season start in which Pope threw for 736 yards and 13 touchdowns. He referenced former Cleveland High quarterback Chad Voytik, now the starter for the Pittsburgh Panthers, and reported that Pope wound up third among incoming seventh-graders at his first NFA Duel competition this past summer. Gregor noted that Pope, a National Beta Club member who has been training with NFA for three years, began playing flag football as a 4-year-old and always has been a quarterback. Pope's fifth-grade team won the Bradley County Super Bowl.

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