Fresh off its third consecutive Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament championship, the Tennessee Wesleyan women’s soccer team will face sixth-ranked Keiser at 1 p.m. Saturday in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the opening round of the NAIA national tournament. After their 5-1 defeat of Milligan in the AAC final last Saturday gave the Lady Bulldogs (12-5-1) an 11-game win streak under first-year coach Bryan Walker, Dayna Randall was named the tournament’s most valuable player and Hannah Dearing, Samantha Green and Livia Walker joined her on the all-tournament team.
* Runner-up Bryan College placed four players on the 2018 AAC men’s soccer all-tournament team: Charlie Clarke, Dino Jones, Jonathan Ricketts and Jason Ward. Yuri Parisotto and Kyle Wynne represented Tennessee Wesleyan.
Basketball
* Lee University’s Haley Schubert was selected the season’s first Gulf South Conference women’s basketball freshman of the week for her team-high 33 points plus nine steals in two GSC/SSC Challenge games at Saint Leo, Florida. The Lady Flames’ home opener is tonight at 6 against Cumberland.
* Despite 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting by Bailey Spragg and 19 points and eight rebounds from Will Crumly, the Covenant College men’s basketball team lost 69-66 to visiting Centre on Tuesday. A Spragg layup gave the Scots (0-2) a 66-65 lead with a minute to go, but four Centre free throws were the only scoring after that. Nick Palmer had three steals for Covenant. Tucker Sine scored 15 points and Art Walker had 14 plus eight rebounds for the Colonels (1-0). There were eight ties and 15 lead changes in the game.
* Even with an injury that limited usual leader Bella Taylor to nine minutes, the Sewanee women emphatically won their home opener Tuesday night, 81-59 over Berea, with a 34-10 third quarter after trailing 32-30 at halftime. Sue Kim had 19 points and eight assists and Ellie Treanton scored 16 and matched Kim with four 3-point baskets for the Tigers (2-1), who got 12 and 11 points from Lakeisha Phillips and Kinsley Logan. Logan had five steals.
* The Sewanee men improved to 2-0 with an 80-68 victory at Piedmont in which Hunter Buescher and Luke Smith scored 21 and 17 points, Buescher with six assists, and Cam Caldwell contributed 11 points and eight rebounds. Jordan Warlick added 10 points.
* Jeremy Wilson had 27 points and five assists and Mark Chester scored 24 with four second-half 3s in leading the Georgia Northwestern Bobcats to a 105-94 road win over the Covenant junior varsity. Also for the Bobcats (1-1), Jayce Harris had 15 points and 10 rebounds, J.T. Langford 15 points and five assists, Kannen Derryberry 12 points and 10 rebounds and Jarrett Gill 10 points.
General
* Santa Claus will honor University of Tennessee at Chattanooga supporters by being dressed in blue and gold this Thursday at Hamilton Place mall and Nov. 29 at Northgate Mall, from 6 to 9 p.m. in each case. Santa and UTC mascot Scrappy will be available Thursday for photos with Mocs fans, who are encouraged to wear their own blue-and-gold gear.