Monica San Juan shot a third-round 69 on Tuesday at Kiawah Island, S.C., and helped the UTC women’s team finish second out of 20 teams in the Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament. She tied for 11th individually, while teammate Emily McLennan tied for third.Led by a final-round 3-under-par 69 from Monica San Juan and a 70 from Emily McLennan, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team finished second in the 20-school Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament that ended Tuesday at the Turtle Point course at Kiawah Island, S.C. Furman won at 875 for 54 holes; UTC was seven strokes back, two ahead of third-place Campbell. McLennan tied for third individually at 217, while San Juan tied for 11th at 219 and Megan Woods and Cris Perez shared 23rd place at 223. “Obviously we’re really happy,” Mocs coach Colette Murray said in a UTC release. “We wanted a top-three and we got it. If we had a better first day (ninth place), we could’ve won it. I’m really happy with our play overall this fall.”
* Dalton State’s Katie Dalton (149) and Julia McQuilken (152) were the top two players as the Roadrunners won the 10-team Chick-fil-A Collegiate women’s golf tournament Tuesday at Coosa Country Club in Rome, Ga. That made them 5-for-5 in winning their fall-semester events. DSC compiled a 36-hole 610, 19 strokes ahead of second-place Methodist with Tennessee Wesleyan third at 652. DSC’s Erika Wardzenski tied for fourth at 154 and Caroline Griffin was sixth at 155. TWC’s Abby Dukes tied for ninth at 158, and Kinsley Vincent was 13th at 161.
Cross country
* Lee University’s Caleb Morgan was announced officially Tuesday as the Gulf South Conference men’s cross country coach of the year. His Flames won the Cleveland school’s first championship as an official GSC and NCAA Division II member last Saturday, with six top-20 finishers in the league meet. They were unofficial league winners and Christian college national champions last year. Lee will compete Nov. 7 in the NCAA South Region meet at Saint Leo, Fla.
* Dalton State freshman Emily Poole from Heritage High School was chosen the Southern States Athletic Conference women’s cross country runner of the week for the fifth time this season after her fifth-place finish out of 254 runners last Saturday in USC Beaufort’s Sand Shark Invitational meet. She ran the 5k race in 18 minutes, 12 seconds.
Soccer
* The Bryan College soccer teams had three of the four Appalachian Athletic Conference players of the week announced Monday, with Lady Lions goalkeeper Morgana Hardt da Silva the women’s defensive honoree for the second time and men’s keeper Alex Horton and fellow freshman Joe Goreham earning the men’s designations. The Bryan men (11-4-2, 8-0-1) won 3-0 Tuesday night against visiting Truett-McConnell, but the Lady Lions (4-7-4, 2-4-4) lost 1-0. Last week, Goreham scored three goals including both game-winners as the Lions went 2-0, and Horton totaled 15 saves. Hardt da Silva had 19 saves as the Lady Lions went 1-0-1. She led the AAC with 121 saves going into Tuesday’s match.
* Tennessee Wesleyan lost 1-0 in men’s soccer Tuesday against visiting Georgia Gwinnett and is now 8-8-1.
Volleyball
* Silvia Sartori had 15 kills and 11 digs and Hillary Hoffpauir had 36 assists with 12 digs as Lee University won 3-1 (12-25, 25-21, 25-20, 26-24) in GSC volleyball Tuesday at Christian Brothers. Catherine Conley contributed 12 kills and Stephanie Hernandez had 20 digs for Lee (11-13, 6-8).
* Bryan College’s Kara Stamper was the AAC volleyball attacker of the week for the fourth time this season for matches last week, and she and the first-place Lady Lions won a league contest 3-2 (25-21, 15-25, 18-25, 25-20, 15-10) Tuesday at Milligan. Bryan (22-13, 16-2) was 3-0 last week, when Stamper totaled 44 kills. She had 19 in one match and leads the AAC in total kills and kills per set.
* Dalton State won 3-2 over Brenau in SSAC volleyball Tuesday night in Dalton, by set scores of 25-8, 17-25, 25-11, 16-25, 15-5. Kianna Delaney had 15 kills and Michala Askew had 40 assists for the Roadrunners (11-11, 5-7), while Savannah Nelson and Anna Metzler had eight and seven kills and Karly Newman and Rafaela Petrunko had 13 and 10 digs.
Basketball
* The Bryan basketball teams begin their 2015-16 seasons this evening at home in Dayton against Oakwood University from Huntsville, Ala., beginning with the women’s game at 5:30. The Bryan men are led by amazing 6-foot-2 senior post player Brandon Cole, a third-team NAIA Division II All-American after averaging national highs of 29.14 points and 11.32 rebounds a game last season. He needs only 16 points to reach 2,000 for his college career. The Lady Lions had leaders Megan Billingsby (14.8 ppg, 9 rpg), Kristin Lane (12.5 ppg) and Keila Formont (102 assists) among eight returners with significant experience from a team that went 21-7 and reached the national tournament.