The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team finished off a 3-1 win over Florida A&M at nearly 2 a.m. EDT Saturday in the Ole Miss Invitational and later lost 3-0 to Ole Miss but beat Louisiana Tech 3-0. Miranda Elpers and Ally Ford had 18 and 17 kills and 17 digs apiece for the Mocs (2-2) in the 25-17, 25-21, 24-26, 25-19 defeat of FAMU, when Lauren Greenspoon had 48 assists and 10 digs, Megan Kaufman had 31 digs, Dani Szczepanski had 12 kills and Bailey Clemons added 16 digs. In the 25-18, 25-19, 25-22 loss to the tournament hosts, Ford had 16 kills and eight digs, Greenspoon had 31 assists and 12 digs, Kaufman had 25 digs and Elpers had 10 kills. In the 25-15, 25-23, 25-23 finale, Ford had 16 kills and 13 digs, Elpers 11 kills and 12 digs, Szczepanski 10 kills, Greenspoon 36 assists and Kaufman 14 digs.
-Bryan College went 1-3 in its Bryan Bash volleyball tournament with five teams representing five NAIA conferences. The Lady Lions endured 3-1 losses Saturday to Kentucky schools Asbury (25-13, 25-12, 22-25, 25-20) and Pikeville (20-25, 25-20, 25-17, 25-17). Rheagan Kean had 19 digs and Mariah Dunlop had 13 plus a team-high seven kills for Bryan against Asbury, when Veronica Salas contributed 14 assists and 10 digs. Hope Burnett had seven kills, Sidney Pierce 13 assists and Kean, Dunlop and Salas 12, 11 and 10 digs against Pikeville. In Friday’s late loss to Southeastern, Brooke Stowell and Dunlop led with nine and eight kills, Salas had 18 assists and Kean had 22 digs.
-The Cleveland State volleyball team is five matches into program history and has yet to lose. The Lady Cougars coached by Randy Evans and Alizabeth Atnip swept Crown, Hiwassee, Welch and Georgia Northwestern all by 2-0 scores Friday and Saturday at GNTC’s tournament in Rossville.
Soccer
-The Bryan men’s soccer team improved to 2-0 with a 3-1 victory Saturday at Thomas University, which is ranked 12th in the NAIA preseason poll. The No. 11 Lions’ Charlie Clarke scored 13:25 into the game from an Aaron Attree cross, and Attree at 60:59 and Brad Spooner at 86:49 scored from assists by Jason Ward and Jonathan Ricketts.
-Tennessee Wesleyan is 2-1 in men’s soccer after winning 3-1 over host SCAD Savannah on Saturday. All the scoring was in the first 32 minutes. George Green, Fraser Barlow and Gabriel Gonzalez scored for TWU, Barlow with an assist from Tom Lake.
Fishing
-John Murray of Spring City finished 19th in the Bassmaster Elite tournament on Lake St. Clair in Michigan with a three-day total of 58 pounds, 8 ounces, and Jacob Wheeler of Harrison wound up 22nd at 58-3. Each got $10,000. Jordan Lee of Guntersville, Ala., leads the 12 finalists today with a 69-13 total after weighing 24-11 on Friday and 25-9 on Saturday.
Softball
-The Lighthouse Lookouts/Athletic Shop slowpitch softball team from Chattanooga finished second in the men’s 50-over major division of the ISSA Pic-O-Dixie Senior Classic last week in Ooltewah and Cleveland. The Lighthouse Lookouts lost 39-22 and 22-19 to Team Kitty of Oneonta, Ala., in bracket play, where they beat Walker Brothers of Huntsville 18-17 (on a two-run walk-off home run by Roger Smith) and 31-23 and topped Gem City Merchants of Dayton, Ohio, 32-25 with Van Shumaker and Rodney Waters each homering twice and driving in six runs, Mike Wood going 5-for-5 and Blake Parham and Al Cox each going 4-for-4. The local team had scored nine runs in its last at-bat to nip Gem City 25-24 in pool play Friday. Parham and Cox made the all-tournament team after batting .792 and .760, joined by Tony Henry and Shumaker with .762 and .750 averages plus four and five homers and 18 and 17 RBIs. Other standouts were Steve Moffett (.692), Wood (.645, 7 HRs, 21 RBIs), Waters (.643, 5, 15) and Smith (.630, 7, 16). Team Kitty also had won the SPA world championships in late July in Dalton, where the Lookouts were sixth out of 20 teams and Waters (.808, 6 HRs), Butch Womack (.793) and pitcher Stacy Powell (.680) were selected all-world.
Football
-UTC football coach Tom Arth will be the special speaker for the first Chattanooga Quarterback Club meeting of the 2017-18 year Monday at noon at SpringHill Suites on Riverfront Parkway. Attendance costs $12 with a meal, $4 without, and the public is welcome.