Chattanooga State’s Lady Tigers won 84-83 at home over the 16th-ranked women’s basketball team in the NJCAA, South Georgia Tech, on Wednesday. Sydney Sims and Raujua Terry each hit two late free throws to enable the Lady Tigers (5-1) to withstand a 3-pointer in the closing seconds by South Georgia (7-1). The Chattanooga State men then outscored the Hiwassee junior varsity 99-90. Sims scored 20 points, Kaela Patrick had 14 and Terry and Mia Collins added 12 apiece for the winning women, while Teondra Crawford had nine assists. DaV Moore had 16 points and 17 rebounds for the Chattanooga State men, who got 15 points each from Develyn Williams and Brandon Shingles and 14 from Boban Jacdonmi. Jacob Elliott scored 31 for Hiwassee.
* Cleveland State’s basketball Lady Cougars are 7-1 after winning on the road against the Milligan junior varsity Tuesday, as Leisa Butler had 15 points and 10 rebounds and Ny’Asia Holmes scored 14 points. But the Cleveland State men lost 80-69 at Athens against the Tennessee Wesleyan jayvees. Dontrell Whitaker scored 18 points and Javel Gillespie had 16 with four 3-pointers in defeat.
* The Bryan College basketball teams split an Appalachian Athletic Conference doubleheader with Kentucky’s Union College on Wednesday in Dayton, with the Lady Lions (7-0, 1-0) winning 77-49 and the Bryan men (3-3, 0-1) losing 82-73.
* Tennessee Wesleyan lost an AAC basketball doubleheader with Milligan on Wednesday in Athens, with the TWC men falling 86-85 in overtime after the women lost 71-68. Melanie Barker led TWC’s women (0-3, 0-2) with 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Hunter Simpson added 13 points and Kelsey Young grabbed four steals. Hayley Wyrick led Milligan (7-0, 2-0) with 21 points. Milligan’s men (6-0, 2-0) dropped the Bulldogs to 2-2 and 0-2.
* The Hiwassee women’s basketball team lost 88-32 Wednesday night at NCAA Division II member Alabama-Huntsville. Halei Lequire and Chanelle Rogers each scored nine points to lead the Tigers (1-6), a National Christian College Athletic Association member.