The Tennessee Volunteers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets led the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic golf tournament Saturday at 20-under-par 556 after the second of three days at The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Georgia, and Alabama was two strokes behind. Auburn was a distant fourth at 577, one shot better than South Carolina and Virginia. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was 12th at 589, just five behind seventh-place Clemson, and Dalton State College was tied with Colorado State for 14th at 600. The Vols’ Jake Meenhorst and the Jackets’ Tyler Strafaci were tied for first individually at 135 after a 66 and a 65, respectively, on Saturday. Will Porter led UTC with a 70 and was tied with South Carolina’s Scott Stevens from Chattanooga (71) for 18th at 144, and UTC’s Lake Johnson, Oliver Simonsen and A.J. Lintunen were at 147, 149 and 149. Dalton State’s Ben Rebne was tied for 23rd at 145 with Sport Allmond, Jack Clark and Matthew Cleary (71) at 151, 152 and 152.
Volleyball
* UTC lost 3-0 to Notre Dame (6-2) in the Western Kentucky tournament Saturday, by the set scores of 25-10, 25-18, 25-22. Jaquelyn Langhaim had 14 assists and matched Miranda Elpers with six kills for the Mocs (4-6), who got nine and eight digs from Megan Kaufman and Brenna Everingham.
* Lee University ended its stay at the Argo Bash in Pensacola, Florida, with a 3-0 loss (25-21, 25-19, 25-11) Saturday to 11th-ranked host West Florida. Silvia Sartori had 10 kills and 13 digs, Allie Koepfer also had 10 kills and Hanna Matthews had 23 assists for Lee (2-8). MaKayla Beebe added 10 digs.
* Sewanee is 8-1 this season after completing a 4-0 run through the Roanoke Maroon Classic with a 3-1 win (25-15, 25-27, 25-21, 25-21) over the hosts and a 3-0 defeat (25-13, 25-8, 25-19) of Ferrum on Saturday. Destiny Stewart had 16 kills and Sydney White and Lilly Reilly added 13 apiece with 13 and 12 digs against Roanoke, while Constance Connolly contributed 44 assists, 13 digs and four aces and Ellie Pedersen had 11 digs with seven kills. Connolly had 30 assists and six aces in the finale, when Stewart and White each had eight kills, Reilly had seven and Stewart served four aces and matched Olivia Nichols with 13 digs.