In a 192-93 season-opening dual-meet win Saturday against Science Hill, Baylor School girls’ swimmers set four NISCA short-course-meters national records for independent schools – three involving senior Addison Smith. Those were a 1:46:35 by Ellie Waldrep, Jewel Gordon, Jamee Mitchum and Smith in the 200 freestyle relay, Smith’s 2:00.70 in the 200 free and 4:16.18 in the 400 free and Waldrep’s 1:00.34 in the 100 backstroke. The previous 400-free and 100-back standards were set in 2008 by former Baylor standouts Emma Michaels and Arden Pitman. Also Saturday, Signal Mountain’s Cecilia Porter set a short-course-meters national public school record with a 1:09.05 in the 100 breaststroke. The Baylor boys beat Science Hill 205-78.
Golf
‘ The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team completed its fall-semester schedule Sunday with a seventh-place finish in the 12-team Grandover Collegiate in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Mocs’ final-round 310 put them at 901, six strokes behind sixth-place Michigan State. Host UNC Greensboro won with an 869. UTC’s Connor Nolan tied for 15th at 221, playing as an individual, and Lake Johnson and Oliver Simonsen tied for 20th at 223 with Will Porter in a tie for 30th at 225.
Tennis
‘ The UTC men’s tennis team won three matches in an all-doubles first day Friday in the Steve Baras Fall Invitational they were hosting and added singles victories from junior Simon Bustamante and sophomores Luke Plaisted, Jacob Marshall and Cooper Long against Presbyterian College players in Saturday’s rain-shortened schedule. Plaisted won 7-6, 6-2; Long, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3); Marshall, 7-5, 6-7, 1-0 (5); Bustamante, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (7). The Mocs’ Niklas Gerdes lost 6-2, 1-6, 1-0 (6); Kerim Hyatt fell 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (6); Pablo Llebeili lost 0-6, 6-4, 1-0 (6).
Basketball
‘ The Dalton State men’s basketball team, ranked 15th in NAIA Division I, began its season with a 92-86 loss Friday to Reinhardt and an 85-51 win Saturday over Selma in DSC’s Chick-fil-A Roadrunner Classic. D’Anfernee Pugh had 20 points and six assists and Sean Chislom had 19 points and nine rebounds Friday, when Aaron Burress, Sean Cranney and Ty Pendley each added 11 points for the Roadrunners. Against Selma, Pendley scored 18 on 6-of-8 3-point shooting, Chislom had 13 points, Cranney had 11 plus 11 assists and Elijah Staley had nine rebounds with 11 points.
‘ Bryan College dropped to 2-1 in men’s basketball with a 65-57 loss late Saturday to Oakwood in Huntsville, Alabama.
‘ Akia Harris from Chattanooga was part of the Tennessee Tech women’s eruption in a 105-57 exhibition win Sunday against Hiwassee. She had 10 assists, nine points and three steals for the game, with six assists and seven points in 17 first-half minutes.
Soccer
‘ The Dalton State soccer teams lost 2-1 to the Martin Methodist men and 6-1 to the NAIA’s fifth-ranked Lady RedHawks in Southern States Athletic Conference games Saturday at Pulaski, Tennessee. Yovanka Pineda scored for the Lady Roadrunners, who were outshot 21-5 in ending their season at 6-7-3, 0-6-2 in the SSAC. Frank Herrera netted an Amin Saheb Ettabaa assist for the Roadrunners (7-9-1, 3-5) in the 78th minute for a tie, but Martin’s Juan Yepes broke the tie seven minutes later. MMC (10-7, 5-3) is seeded fourth and DSC sixth in the SSAC men’s tournament.
Volleyball
‘ Tennessee Wesleyan’s volleyball team beat Piedmont International 3-1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-14) and lost 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-12) to Huston-Tillotson as Cumberland’s Phoenix Classic ended Saturday. Ending its regular season at 15-20, TWU got 14 and 13 kills from Sydney Ritten and Avery Hilliard (on .706 hitting) and another nine from Marjorie Smith in the win, while Kalyse Garrett contributed 17 assists and 20 digs, Tia Madden added 12 assists and Madison Weir and Haley Amet had 12 and 11 digs. Maura Emert had three block solos and six block assists.