Months after graduating from Lee University, Soddy-Daisy’s Summer Lanter is still being honored for her final college soccer season last fall. The All-America forward was announced Tuesday as the D2 Conference Commissioners Association South Region scholar athlete of the year. She had a 3.905 grade point average as a nursing major and was the Gulf South Conference women’s soccer player and overall female athlete of the year.
* Lee’s Aidan Moore repeated as GSC men’s soccer freshman of the week after scoring two goals in a 7-0 win over Shorter.
* Tennessee Wesleyan lost 3-2 to visiting Bethel in men’s soccer and 2-1 in the women’s game Tuesday at Brenau. Harry Baggaley scored at 3:07 from a George Green assist and Sam Dodden made it 2-2 at 54:55 for the TWU men (5-3), who got eight saves from Nick Croucher. Livia Walker scored at 80:47 for the TWU women (1-5).
* The Bryan College men’s soccer team won 3-1 at Life, but the Lady Lions lost 4-3 in overtime at home against AAC foe Columbia College. Jonathan Ricketts and Charlie Clarke assisted each other on goals, Artur Dombrowski scored from a Brad Spooner corner kick and Alex Horton made six saves for the Lions (2-3-2). The Lady Lions led 3-1 at halftime on goals from Makema Giles, Jessica Chaveiro and Abby Sweatman, Chaveiro assisting Giles.
* In Division III women’s soccer, Covenant (1-4-1) got six saves from Rachel Lemay but lost 1-0 at Berry (3-2-1), and Sewanee (0-6-2) fell at Agnes Scott (3-3-1) on a goal in the final minute. The Tigers’ scores came on a 40-yard free kick by Gillian Campbell and Savannah Williams’ equalizer from a Paige Rupp cross.
Tennis
* Chattanooga’s Wesley Cash and doubles partner Mark Vines from Naples, Florida – who have shared numerous USTA national age-group titles in recent years and won a world championship for the United States last month in Germany – finished second Sunday in the 2018 60-over men’s grass-court nationals at Pontiac, Michigan. Cash and Vines were seeded No. 1 and advanced with a bye and victories of 6-0, 6-0 and 6-2, 6-2 before topping the fourth-seeded North Carolina duo of John Arciero and former UTC standout Ken Koelling 6-2, 7-6 (4) in the semifinals. They then fell 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 to No. 2 seeds Thomas Lucci of Cleveland, Ohio, and Peter Markes of Austin, Texas. Koelling and Arciero won the third-place match 6-2, 6-3 over the No. 3 seeds. Cash and Koelling won 55s doubles together in June in the Tennessee Valley Open Championships in Chattanooga.
Volleyball
* Alex Reuter had 12 kills with a .706 attack percentage as Lee rose to 3-0 in GSC volleyball with a 3-0 win (25-18, 26-24, 25-18) Tuesday night at Shorter. Also for the Lady Flames (5-8), Hanna Matthews had 31 assists, Silvia Sartori had 10 kills and MaKayla Beebe had 12 digs.
* Ellie Pedersen had 14 kills and Constance Connolly set 37 assists as Sewanee beat visiting Centre 3-1 (25-21, 17-25, 25-16, 25-16) in SAA volleyball. Sydney White and Destiny Stewart had nine kills each and 13 and 10 digs for the Tigers (11-2, 2-1), while Olivia Nichols had 16 digs and Lilly Reilly added 10 digs and three aces.
* Milligan won 3-2 (12-25, 25-12, 25-15, 21-25, 15-9) in AAC play at Bryan, which got 34 digs from Rheagan Keen, 17 from Macenzie Krause and 11 and seven kills from Mariah Dunlop and Paige Randolph. Jennifer Keck had three aces with 11 assists.
Golf
* Bryan’s Taylor Williams shared first place at 154 with team champion SCAD Atlanta’s Micaa’ Thomas in the nine-team Tennesssee Wesleyan Fall Invitational women’s tournament Monday and Tuesday at Springbrook in Niota. SCAD won at 642 with Brenau at 647, TWU third at 653, Bryan sixth at 700 and TWU’s “B” team eighth at 711. TWU’s Ryann McCuistion tied for sixth at 161, Saylem Powell tied for eighth (with Bryan’s Danielle Banda) at 162 and Kelsey Cassada and Danielle Bates shared 11th at 165.
* TWU sophomore Tanner Harris from Trion, Georgia, was the AAC men’s golfer of the week for his 140 medalist score in leading the Bulldogs to the Bill Sergent Invitational team title in London, Kentucky.