Haris Price had 24 points and five assists as the Lee University women’s basketball team won 85-82 in the first game of Saturday’s Gulf South Conference home doubleheader against West Florida.
Lee then won the men’s game 72-70 in overtime.
Erin Walsh had 18 points and three steals and Carrie Cheeks had 16 points and three blocked shots for Lee’s Lady Flames (6-3, 3-1), while Anna Woodford scored 14 points. Alex Coyne led West Florida with 24 points and eight assists; she made five of eight 3-point shots. Austin Somerfield had 22 points, 15 rebounds and four steals and Jason Laatsch scored 21 points with five 3s for the UWF men, but the Flames (3-6, 1-3) won with balance. C.J. Reese led them with 14 points and seven rebounds, while Keevin Tyus and Jervon Johnson scored 11 points each and Rantavious Gilbert and Kenny Nabors tallied 10 each. Gilbert also had seven rebounds and blocked seven shots.
* T.J. Cox hit six of eight 3-point tries and scored a career-high 34 points in leading the Covenant College men’s basketball team over Birmingham-Southern on Saturday, 96-81. Berto Dryden had 16 points and seven assists and Daniel Garrett had 12 points and four assists for the Scots (5-3). At Maryville, the 14th-ranked Maryville College women won 55-35 over Covenant, which shot 23.6 percent from the field and was led in scoring by reserve Kaley Hallmark with 12 points. Rachel Price had 12 rebounds.
* The Bryan College women’s basketball team, ranked 17th in NAIA Division II, is 13-0 after winning an AAC game Saturday at Columbia (S.C.), 74-63. Tennessee Wesleyan’s women and men won 69-55 and 97-87 at Point, and Bryan’s men won 70-51 at Johnson-Florida. Bryan’s Megan Billingsby is the reigning Tennessee Sports Writers Association women’s player of the week for her after averaging 24 points and 7.5 rebounds in two wins last week.