Lee University senior forward Summer Lanter from Soddy-Daisy was chosen Gulf South Conference women’s soccer player of the year for the second season in a row and gave post-vote evidence for it Tuesday night, and defenders McKenzie Bricker and Meagan Newman joined her on the all-conference first team. Senior midfielder Suzanne Arant and junior forward Mia Hollingsworth made the All-GSC second team from the nationally seventh-ranked Lady Flames (14-4), who edged visiting West Georgia 1-0 in a league tournamament quarterfinal Tuesday on Lanter’s unassisted goal in the 85th minute. That gave her seven game-winning goals and 13 in all this season. Lee, which plays Friday in the semifinals at Montgomery, Ala., had margins of 23-6 in shots and 11-0 in corner kicks. Jackie Donaldson made 11 saves for West Georgia (8-9).
* Lee defender Samir Williams made the All-GSC men’s soccer second team for 2017. Also for the Flames, midfielder Jared McWhorter was the league’s freshman of the week after scoring the goal in the season-closing 1-0 win at Tusculum.
* Covenant College freshman Jake Major was the final USA South men’s soccer rookie of the week for his two goals in a 9-0 win over Berea last Wednesday. The weekend postseason games did not count in the league selections. The goals in the 86th and 87th minutes were Major’s first of the year. The Scots play North Carolina Wesleyan in a USAS tournament semifinal Saturday at noon in Rocky Mount, N.C.
* Tennessee Wesleyan freshman Yuri Parisotto and senior Nicole Broderick were the Appalachian Athletic Conference soccer offensive players of the week, each for scoring four goals in two games. It was the third such honor this season for Broderick, whose second-seeded Lady Bulldogs will host a quarterfinal match Friday in the AAC tournament. The TWU men play Friday at Union (Ky.), while Bryan’s top-seeded women and No. 2 men will host quarterfinals.
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