The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball Mocs won 3-1 Saturday night over Furman in a battle of Southern Conference first-place teams. The other team sharing first, UNC Greensboro, lost to East Tennessee State. UTC (22-5, 11-3) rallied from a 25-12 loss in the first set to win 25-23, 25-15 and 25-22. Allie Davenport had 17 kills and Briana Reid, Kristy Wieser and Sarah Batterton added 10 apiece for the Mocs, Reid with 17 digs, while Lauren Greenspoon had 44 assists and Rachel Petkosh had 19 digs.
* Covenant College won the USA South Conference tournament it hosted with a 3-1 win Saturday evening against Maryville and will go to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. Ginny Moore and Chelsea VanDyk had 17 and 16 kills in the 26-24, 24-26, 26-24, 25-19 final for Covenant (19-12), while Schuyler Moore had 45 assists, 11 digs and seven kills, Hannah Stewart had 30 digs, Morgan Opgenorth had 10 kills and Ginny had 16 digs. In Covenant’s 3-1 semifinal win (25-18, 25-27, 25-19, 25-19) over Meredith, Ginny had 16 kills, six aces and 27 digs, Schuyler had 33 assists and 16 digs, VanDyk had nine kills and Stewart and Jaclyn Stuart had 13 and 11 digs. Both Moores and VanDyk made the all-tournament team with Ginny the MVP.
* Briana Sandifer had 20 kills as West Alabama edged Lee University 3-2 in Gulf South Conference volleyball Saturday, but Silvia Sartori had 25 plus 17 digs for Lee (12-16, 7-11) while Catherine Conley had 14 kills and Brooke Wilsman and Blaire Beamer added 12 each in the 25-19, 19-25, 25-23, 14-25, 15-12 loss. Hillary Hoffpauir had 55 assists and 12 digs for Lee, and Stephanie Hernandez and Sarah Davis contributed 23 and 16 digs.
* Appalachian Athletic Conference champion Bryan College completed its volleyball regular season with a 3-0 win (26-24, 25-21, 25-22) Saturday at Bluefield, while second-place Union College beat Tennessee Wesleyan 3-0 (25-13, 28-26, 25-18). That left Wesleyan at 11-16, 9-11 in the AAC. In Friday’s title-sealing win over Union (24-12, 15-5), Bryan (24-13, 18-2) got 18 kills from Ashley Mattoch, 15 on .481 hitting from Rachel Mosley, nine kills on .529 hitting by Meghan Wallace, eight kills from AAC leader Kara Stamper and 49 assists from league leader Shelby Grace Enochs.
* Dalton State’s volleyball team ended its regular season with a 3-1 Southern States Athletic Conference home loss (25-17, 30-28, 19-25, 25-21) Saturday against Mobile. Kianna Delaney had 11 kills and Marta Guntin had eight for DSC (12-14, 6-10), which got 29 assists and 11 digs from Michala Askew and 16 and 14 digs from Karly Newman and Anna Metzler. The Roadrunners are seeded sixth for the SSAC tournament and will face No. 2 Mobile (28-5, 13-3) again first in pool play at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Montgomery.
Running
* Living up to the final region rankings, the Lee University men’s team finished second to the hosts and the Lee women finished fourth Saturday in the NCAA Division II South Region cross country meet at Saint Leo University in Florida. The Flames qualified for the NCAA national meet Nov. 21 in Joplin, Mo., but the Lady Flames missed out by one spot. The Flames’ Seth Eagleson and Harold Smith finished fourth and sixth in the 10-kilometer run in times of 32:24.72 and 33.05.40, and teammates Camden Perez and Gus Whitman also were under 34 minutes in finishing 16th and 18th. The team totaled 85 points to St. Leo’s 78 with third-place Nova Southeastern at 110. Lee’s women were led by Jessica Childers and Audrey Smith in ninth and 11th in 22:51.85 and 22.57.71 in the 6k, and Amy Carpenter was 25th with Savannah Ratcliff 41st. Lee had 135 points, 40 more than third-place Union University.
* Ryan Trenkamp and Chattanooga Track Club manager Stacey Malecky were the overall winners of the We Give Hope 5k on Saturday in Cleveland with times of 20:22 and 26:57, and Brian Foutz and Tina Morgan were the masters winners. Brian Wright was second overall in 22:16, with Foutz third in 24:26 and Malecky fourth. Morgan was seventh.
Soccer
* No. 1 seed Bryan College beat Montreat 3-1 in the AAC men’s soccer tournament Saturday. The Lions (12-4-2) will host the semifinals Wednesday and face today’s winner of St. Andrews at Tennessee Wesleyan. In women’s quarterfinals, Union edged Tennessee Wesleyan (7-8-3) 1-0 despite being outshot 12-4 and top seed Reinhardt won 3-0 over Bryan (5-9-4). Union’s goal came just 3:17 in.
* Ramsey Seagle from Chattanooga and Baylor School scored in the 88th minute from a Chris Haberstroh assist to give the Sewanee men’s soccer team its second upset in the Southern Athletic Association tournament, 1-0 over Rhodes, and a berth in today’s championship match in Jackson, Miss. The eighth-seeded Tigers (6-11-2) were outshot 16-10 in Saturday’s win. Will Merriman made three saves in goal.
Field Hockey
* Centre College’s field hockey team pulled out a 2-1 SAA tournament semifinal win over Sewanee on Julie Gates’ goal in the second overtime Saturday at Memphis. Centre (10-5) scored in the fourth minute and had an 8-1 advantage in shots in the first overtime, but the score remained tied with Katie Wilson’s 23rd-minute penalty-corner goal from an Emma Horgan assist for the Tigers (11-6). Caroline Brennan made seven saves in defeat.
Basketball
* UTC men’s basketball coach Matt McCall will be the guest speaker for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without. McCall, a former Florida assistant, begins his college head coaching career Friday at Georgia.
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