Tusculum College junior wide receiver Justin Houston from Bradley Central was named Monday to the Beyond Sports Network NCAA Division II All-Super Region Two third team for 2014. Pioneers teammate Caushaud Lyons, a senior defensive lineman, was a first-team selection, as were Carson-Newman running back Andy Hibbett and offensive lineman Robby Ignagni. Carson-Newman quarterback De'Andre Thomas and return specialist Lonnie Williams were second-teamers. Hibbett was the super region's offensive player of the year. The 5-foot-8, 180-pound Houston led Tusculum in receiving for the second year in a row with 66 catches for 643 yards and four touchdowns, and he had a school-record 17 catches for 199 yards against North Greenville. He also returned two kickoffs for TDs this season. Houston is the Pioneers' career leader in receptions with 216 and is third in program history with 2,383 receiving yards and fourth with 3,563 all-purpose yards and 1,164 kickoff-return yards -- with a season to go.
Volleyball
• Bryan College's Taylor Fink and Kara Stamper were two of the three Appalachian Athletic Conference volleyball players who received NAIA All-America honorable mention for 2014. Fink, the senior setter who was voted the AAC player of the year, led the league with 1,351 assists and with 10.6 assists per set, while sophomore Stamper led with 4.25 kills per set as the Lady Lions went 27-9 and won the AAC regular season for the third year in a row. Both made the all-conference first team along with Bryan middle blocker Meghan Lowry, and teammates Madison Akins, Ashley Ferris and Rachel Mosley made the All-AAC second team.
Softball
• Lee Dobbins is back in college softball coaching. Dobbins, a local native who began as a student assistant for Frank Reed at Chattanooga State in 1996 and also has worked under Reed at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has joined the staff of Trena Peel at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.). Dobbins was the head coach at Southern University in 2013 and 11 games into the 2014 season and previously was a head coach at Lander and Texas A&M International. He also has worked at Tennessee, Tusculum and Austin Peay and after his last stint at UTC spent two years as an assistant at Emory, which went 76-10 during that time. He also has done clinics and consulting work overseas. "I'm very grateful that he is making this transition quickly to Buffalo on such short notice," Peel said in a Buffalo release. "It was very important for me and our administration to bring in a coach with experience, and Coach Dobbins meets that criteria. He is a seasoned coach that has a wealth of knowledge and has coached on many levels."
Basketball
• Bryan College sophomore guard Kristin Lane is the AAC women's basketball player of the week for games of Dec. 1-7, after contributing 25 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and three steals in Saturday's win at Milligan. That was after she scored 15 points in a defeat of Columbia.