Tennessee Tech freshman point guard Jr. Clay from Chattanooga and McCallie School was voted to this year’s All-Ohio Valley Conference men’s basketball second team and the OVC all-newcomer team. Clay led the Golden Eagles with 14.4 points and 4.3 assists per game and 51 total steals, and he had seven games with 20 or more points. Averaging 16.5 in league games, he scored 26 at Morehead State and had 22 plus eight assists and nine rebounds against Eastern Kentucky.
» The Lee University women’s team routed Alabama-Huntsville 90-67 in a Gulf South Conference tournament quarterfinal Tuesday night in Cleveland, but the Lee men ended their season with a 74-69 overtime loss at West Alabama (22-6). Colton Blevins and Ryan Montgomery each scored 15 points for the Flames (15-14), and Parker Suedekum and Cody Jones scored 12 and 10. For the Lady Flames (23-6), who will face West Georgia – an upset winner over No. 2 seed West Florida – at 3:15 p.m. EST Saturday in the semifinals at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama – Taylor Boggess scored 21 points, All-GSC first-team selection Abby Bertram scored 20 and GSC freshman of the year Haley Schubert added 15. Lindsey Roddy had 12 and a game-high nine rebounds. Signal Mountain’s Aryn Sanders had 13 points and eight rebounds to go with Baylee Johnson’s 28 points for Alabama-Huntsville (14-13).
Wrestling
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has two No. 1 seeds for the Southern Conference wrestling tournament Sunday at Appalachian State, starting at 10 a.m.: senior 2018 tournament champion Alonzo Allen at 125 pounds and junior Chris Debien from Cleveland at 141. The SoCon is allocated 13 spots in the NCAA tournament; those will go to the 10 weight-class champs and a second wrestler each at 149, 174 and 197. UTC heavyweight Connor Tolley is a No. 2 seed, and the Mocs’ Tanner Smith (149), Ryan Resnick (157), Drew Nicholson (165) and Dominic Lampe (184) are third seeds. Rod Jones is seeded fourth at 197, and Jake Huffine at 133 and Hunter Fortner at 174 are No. 5 seeds.
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