Five days after being held without a team point at No. 2 Iowa, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestlers opened their Southern Conference dual schedule on the good side of a shutout, rolling to a 47-0 win over Davidson on Friday night in North Carolina. The Mocs (2-3), who had lost 39-0 to the Hawkeyes on Sunday, posted the program’s first shutout win since a 49-0 victory over Cumberland on Nov. 14, 2015. UTC got bonus points in eight of 10 matches at Davidson (0-3, 0-2), with pins by Fabian Gutierrez at 125 pounds, Hunter Fortner (174), Matthew Waddell (184) and Grayson Walthall (285), a technical fall from Tanner Smith (149) and major decisions by Tyler Shilson (157), Andrew Nicholson (165) and Rodney Jones (197). Wade Cummings (133) and Aidan Murphy (141) also won. The Mocs return to nonconference competition Sunday at No. 19 North Carolina.
Tennis
* UTC men’s tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher has signed four-star recruit Peyton Gatti from Whispering Pines, North Carolina. His rating comes from TennisRecruiting.net, which lists him as the No. 5 prospect from North Carolina; he’s No. 31 in the Southeast and 158th nationally. He is the Mocs’ second signee this fall, joining Tunnel Hill native Jordan McClure, whose signing was previously reported. “Peyton really has had an outstanding last six months of tennis,” Merzbacher said in a UTC release announcing the addition. “He moved up through the rankings in the South and nationally. He won the 2019 Southern Doubles Championship and won nine matches in the singles portion of the event.”
Soccer
* The Dalton State College men’s soccer team’s first appearance in the NAIA tournament ended with a 2-1 loss to Arizona’s Embry-Riddle in a first-round match Friday night in Columbia, Missouri. Embry-Riddle (16-4-1) scored in the 22nd and 50th minutes before the Roadrunners (13-6-1) avoided the shutout with Santiago Moore’s penalty kick. Dalton State finished with a 17-7 advantage on shots overall and 8-5 on goal, but Embry-Riddle’s Michal Serdynski made seven saves. Roadrunners keeper Aaron Fraire stopped three shots. Tennessee Wesleyan (15-3-2) is also in the tournament, and the 15th-seeded Bulldogs received a bye in their three-team pod in Baldwin City, Kansas. They take on Baker (Kansas), which is 12-6-3 and beat Eastern Oregon 2-0 on Friday, at 7 EST tonight.