The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga won the women’s title and was the men’s runner-up Saturday morning in the Berry Invitational cross country meet. UTC’s Emily Poole was second individually in 22:24.92 in the 6-kilometer race, and teammates Kennedy Thomson, Hannah Caldwell and Brianna Nelson were sixth, ninth and 12th with Nicole Buehrle, Sophia Neglia and Julia Henderson 14th through 16th. Covenant College’s Lilly Smith was 10th as both Scots teams were sixth in the 24- and 20-team fields. Georgia was second with 65 points to the Mocs’ 39 in the 6k, and Berry and Kennesaw State were third and fourth. The UTC men were second to Berea in the 8k with Mark Britt, Nathan Watson and Ryan Gebelein seventh, ninth and 13th and Jonathan Boyd 31st. Covenant’s Caleb Aikens was 23rd. Sewanee was eighth in the 6k, 11th in the 8k; Dalton State’s women were 11th.
* Led by a first-place and school-record finish from Christian Noble, the Lee University men were fourth out of 43 full teams Friday in the Royals Cross Country Challenge in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Lady Flames were fifth among 45 teams. Davidson’s women and Queens’ men were team winners. Beside Noble’s 20-second 8k victory in 23:27, Lee’s Caleb Eagleson was 12th, Jared Herzog 38th, Casey Guthery 44th and Ben Tabor 52nd. Lee’s Chloe Flora was eighth in 17:29 in the 5k with Charlee Boxall 21st, Amy Carpenter 24th, Logan Hernandez 48th and Becca Umbarger 58th.
Volleyball
* UTC lost 3-1 Saturday at Western Carolina, leaving each team 4-4 in the Southern Conference and tied for third place. The set scores were 25-21, 19-25, 25-23, 25-18. Dani Szczepanski had 14 kills with a .344 hitting percentage for UTC (8-13), while Mikaela Gauthreaux had 11 kills, Gylian Finch 10 kills and 11 digs, Jaquelyn Langhaim 42 assists and 10 digs and Megan Kaufman 22 digs. Miranda Elpers and Bailey Bennett added 12 and 10 digs.
* Despite 14 and 11 kills by Alex Reuter and Silvia Sartori, matching the two highs for West Alabama (17-5, 10-2), Lee University lost 3-0 (28-26, 25-12, 25-20) in a Gulf South Conference match Saturday. Also for Lee (10-12, 8-3), Hanna Matthews had 33 assists and 10 digs and MaKayla Beebe and Allie Koepfer had 17 and 14 digs.