The Dalton State men’s golfers won the Bojangles Tennessee Intercollegiate for the third time Tuesday with a 54-hole 860 at Tennessee National Club in Loudon, and host Tennessee Wesleyan was second out of 10 teams at 874. Tanner Harris led TWU. DSC’s Ben Rebne was third individually at 213, and Zach Womack and Sport Allmond were fourth at fifth at 214 and 216. The NAIA’s third-ranked DSC women tied for fourth in the stacked NAIA National Championship Preview at Oklahoma City, and the Lady Roadrunners’ Katie Dalton won a three-player medalist playoff that included teammate Isabel Rijos after they shot even-par 144. Dalton made a birdie on the second playoff hole. Hannah Gasaway and Cameron Daniel tied for 39th. No. 2 SCAD Savannah was the Preview team champion at 592 with Texas Wesleyan second at 598, USC-Beaufort third at 602 and Dalton State and Loyola (New Orleans) next at 606.
* Lee University’s Scott Odell tied for 15th individually at 2-over-par 215 and the Flames finished 14th at 892 in the Copperhead Championship held Monday and Tuesday at Innisbrook, Florida. The 16-school tournament included 11 NCAA Division II Top 25 teams, and No. 1 Barry won by 24 strokes at 834. Dylan Lillard and Connor Pollman shot 225 and 226 for Lee.
* Led by two of the three co-medalists, Covenant College won its three-team Reeder Cup with a 300 Tuesday at Lookout Mountain Golf Club. That gave the Scots a 36-hole total of 597, 14 shots better than Monday leader Piedmont. Bob Jones University shot 633. Covenant’s Marshall Kent closed with a 73 to tie teammate Nathan Hawkins and Piedmont’s Griffin Kern for first place at 148, and the Scots’ Will DeMersseman and Josh Wall tied for sixth at 151.
Volleyball
* Lee University breezed to a 3-0 Gulf South Conference volleyball victory Tuesday night against visiting Shorter, by the set scores of 25-14, 25-14, 25-16. Hanna Matthews had 28 assists and MaKayla Beebe had 19 digs for Lee (11-12, 9-3), while Bailey Kress had 10 kills, 10 digs and four aces. Silvia Sartori and Alex Reuter each had seven kills, and Allie Koepfer had 13 digs.