Lee University’s Christian Noble was named the Gulf South Conference men’s indoor track athlete of the year and first-team All-GSC in four events for his performances in the recent league meet, and Lee’s Caleb Morgan was coach of the year for both men and women. Both teams won overall titles, the Lady Flames by 72.5 points. They got gold-medal finishes and first-team all-conference status from Celine Ritter in the women’s mile and 3000-meter runs, Jordan Allison in the pentathlon and Amber Littlejohn in the 400 dash and two relays: the 4×400 with Allison, Mikayla Beeler and Kristen Blevins and the distance medley with Beeler, Olivia McLain and Jaila Whitaker. Littlejohn was second-team All-GSC for second place in the 200, and Toni Moore in the 5000, Chloe Flora in the 3000 and Charlee Boxall in the mile likewise earned second-team honors. Noble won the men’s mile, 3000 and 5000 and joined Jeremiah McCain, Elias Sandifer and Jared Herzog with first-team DMR recognition. Jonah Mayes was the first-team high jumper, and Casey Guthery in the 3000 and 5000, Gari Garmendia in shot put and Daniel Surman in pole vault were second-team All-GSC.
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Ashlynd Broling led off a fifth-place distance medley relay and qualified for Sunday’s women’s mile final at the Southern Conference indoor track and field meet Saturday in Lexington, Virginia. Katie Coker, Abby Bateman and Nicole Buehrle followed Broling in DMR legs. She qualified 12th overall for the mile final, edging Buehrle for the last spot. UTC’s Madelyn Thompson earned SoCon all-freshman recognition in long jump.
Basketball
* Both Lee teams lost their final regular-season games Saturday at Alabama-Huntsville and will be No. 2 seeds for the GSC tournaments with home quarterfinals Tuesday against the Mississippi College women and the Auburn-Montgomery men. The eighth-ranked Lady Flames (25-3, 17-3) lost 66-60 at UAH (18-10, 13-7) with 13 points, five steals and five assists from Haley Schubert and 10 points each from Nicky Widenski and Taylor Boggess. The Flames (21-6, 16-4) fell 81-69 to the Chargers (23-5, 15-5) despite 18 points apiece from Ryan Montgomery and Quay Kennedy and 13 from Jason Landman. Josh Lowe blocked four shots.
* The Dalton State College Roadrunners set a program record for regular-season victories with an 89-84 Southern States Athletic Conference win in Saturday’s finale at Middle Georgia State (13-14, 9-9), which fell behind 32-11 and by 21 again at 53-32. DSC (27-3, 15-3) is ranked fourth in NAIA Division I and seeded second for the SSAC tournament that starts Wednesday in Montgomery, Alabama. The Roadrunners will play William Carey or Blue Mountain in the 3:15 pm. EST game Thursday. Saturday, Randy Bell scored 25 points and C.J. Perry, Rodley Adjei and Kevon Tucker scored 16, 14 and 12; Igor Stokic and Tucker had nine and seven rebounds.
Tennis
* The UTC women’s tennis team won 6-1 Saturday at Presbyterian. Jessie Young, Bogdana Zaporozhets and Emma Van Hee won in doubles and singles for the Mocs (7-4), and Polina Goloputova and Callie Billman also won singles matches. The UTC men (11-3) lost 4-3 Friday at Troy but got singles wins from Tomas Rodriguez, Simon Bustamante and Turner Voges.
Volleyball
* UTC took 5-0 losses to UNC Wilmington and Palm Beach Atlantic and a 4-1 defeat to host Mercer in its beach volleyball debut Saturday in Macon, Georgia. Makenzie Jordan and Maia Rackel got the Mocs program’s first win.
Lacrosse
* The Sewanee men’s lacrosse team rallied from two four-goal deficits for a 10-8 win Friday night at Piedmont. Cameron Acuff and Daniel Burnum each scored three goals, Acuff with an assist, for the Tigers (1-3), and Ryan Hofstetter had three assists and a goal. Hampton Brannon made 12 saves.
Compiled by Ron Bush. Contact him at rbush@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6291.