In a combination of 50 seasons coaching the soccer teams at Maryville College, Tennessee Wesleyan Hall of Fame member Pepe Fernandez has accumulated 600 wins. He reached the milestone with his women’s team’s 3-1 home win Wednesday over Covenant College. Fernandez, who previously coached high school teams at Hixson and Notre Dame, is 292-121-31 in 24 seasons with the Lady Scots, who are 7-4 this year, and 308-139-33 in 26 years with the men’s team, which is 6-3-1 in 2014 after a scoreless draw Tuesday against Covenant. Allyson Hale from South Pittsburg and St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School scored midway through the first half Wednesday for Maryville, and she, Jordyn Lee and Covenant’s Anna Porch scored within 80 seconds of each other deep into the second half. Lucy Johnson made 13 saves for the 5-6-1 visitors, who were outshot 29-5.
• The Bryan College men’s soccer team beat visiting Tennessee Wesleyan 3-0 in an Appalachian Athletic Conference match Wednesday night in Dayton, lifting the Lions to 4-4 overall and 1-2 in the league. TWC is 3-4-1, 1-2.
Volleyball
• Bryan College’s Taylor Fink was the AAC volleyball player and setter of the week and teammate Meghan Lowry was the hitter of the week for their play in six victories, the last four giving the Lady Lions the championship of Lee University’s tournament. Fink was supremely consistent with 44, 45, 40, 46, 46 and 45 assists in the six matches. She added 13 digs in one and five aces in another. Lowry had matches with 16 and 15 kills and others with 10, nine, eight and seven and a weeklong attack percentage of .367.
• Despite 16 kills by Alyne Bianchi and 45 assists and 22 digs by Michala Askew, the Dalton State volleyball team lost 3-1 (25-14, 28-30, 25-22, 25-22) to Southern Wesleyan in a Southern States Athletic Conference match Tuesday night in Central, S.C. Also for DSC (7-6, 3-4), Anna Metzler had eight kills and Karly Newman had 11 digs.