Chattanooga State’s first-year volleyball team is 1-0 in TCCAA matches after winning 3-1 Wednesday evening at Cleveland State, a second-year program. The set scores were 27-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21, and Sidney Killingsworth and Kaylee Wimpee had 16 kills each plus nine and four blocks while Sakari Pack and Cayla Jacob added nine and seven kills with seven blocks apiece for the Lady Tigers, who are 6-5 overall with four wins in a row and six in their last seven matches. Emily Redden had 24 assists and Dakota Rawiszer had 16 plus three aces in the victory. The Lady Cougars are 6-8.
* Covenant College rallied to win 3-2 in its USA South volleyball opener Wednesday at Maryville, by the set scores of 25-17, 22-25, 18-25, 25-16, 15-10. Sophie Puertas had 35 assists, 14 digs and three aces, Hannah Stewart had 28 digs and Hannah Harris and Alexa Spurling had 12 and nine kills for Covenant (3-8), while Emily Moore and Sara Delk added 11 and 10 digs.
* Tennessee Wesleyan improved to 3-0 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference and 7-9 overall with a 3-0 home win (25-23, 25-18, 25-18) Tuesday over Truett McConnell. Kalyse Garrett had 26 assists in the win, while Avery Hilliard and Allana Knowles registered seven kills apiece and Sydney Ritten and Marjorie Smith added six each in the balanced attack. Sovanna Ramirez had 12 digs.
Soccer
* Anthony Buzzeo scored twice and Ethan Pettit had the first goal and two assists as Covenant won 6-2 in USA South men’s soccer Wednesday at Berea. Austin Berry had a goal and an assist and Keegan Weekley and Jake Major also scored for the Scots (6-2, 3-0), who outshot their hosts 17-7. Carl Simakoff assisted on the final goal.