Area Sports Notes: Baylor’s Avery Davis chosen All-South Region in soccer

Avery Davis

Baylor School junior forward Avery Davis was included on the United Soccer Coaches All-South Region team for the girls’ fall season. The USC formerly was the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. The All-South team includes players from Maryland and Kentucky as well as Tennessee, and the closest selections geographically to Davis were from Farragut and Franklin. She plays also for the Chattanooga Football Club Academy. “This is one step below All-American. We are very proud of her,” Baylor coach Curtis Blair, adding on her behalf that she “had some great teammates that helped her achieve this award.”

Golf

» University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf coach Colette Murray announced Tuesday the signing of four players in the early signing period, and two of them are Rheagan Hall from Cleveland High School and Miranda Rich from Ringgold High. Their commitments to the Mocs already had been reported. The other two are Esme Hamilton from England, who tied for 15th in the 2017 English Women’s Amateur and was this year’s Notts Girls Champion, and Dorota Zalewska from Poland, a two-time Polish Match Play champion and the first Polish golfer to make the European Ladies Championship, which she did this year. “All of these players bring a little something different to our program,” Murray said in a UTC release. “Each will play a different role that will make us stronger, better and more competitive both on the course and in the classroom.” Specifically of Hall, Murray said, “Rheagan is one of the better players to come from the Chattanooga/Cleveland area in a few years.” Rich, she said, “is a good player with a lot of potential. She is a fighter and has clear-cut goals which drive her to succeed.”

Basketball

» Lee University split a pair of nonconference home basketball games Tuesday, routing the Stillman women 81-41 but falling 67-66 to the Freed-Hardeman men. Erin Walsh scored 16 points and Anna Woodford and Shelby Brown added 11 each for the Lady Flames (7-2), Brown with nine rebounds. Carrie Cheeks and Taylor Boggess each grabbed eight rebounds, and Cheeks surpassed 1,000 points for her Lee career. Michael McGuirk scored 21 points in defeat for the Flames (6-2), who got 12 points from Chase Cullen and six assists from Parker Suedekum. They were outscored 35-27 in the second half, when they shot only 36 percent from the field. Marcus Baldwin had 24 points with five 3-point baskets for Freed-Hardeman (2-5).