The Chattanooga State basketball teams pulled off a rare doubleheader sweep of visiting Walters State on Saturday, the 20th-ranked Lady Tigers winning 52-49 and the Tigers winning 86-74.
Erasing a 12-point deficit in the last six minutes, the Lady Tigers posted their first win over the Morristown school since Jay Price added them to his men’s coaching duties. The Lady Senators won the region the last three years.
Cleveland State’s 24th-ranked Lady Cougars rallied from 17 down in the final 13:36 to edge Roane State 72-70 in another TCCAA doubleheader, but Roane did the rallying for an 80-72 men’s win in Cleveland.
April Woodard scored 19 points and hit a late 3-pointer for Chattanooga State’s women (11-2, 8-0), and Sha’Cola Clay hit a layup from a Kim Manning pass to give them the lead.
Alex Dean and Alex Wells scored 18 and 15 points for the Tigers (10-4, 4-4), and Philip Jurick had 17 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocked shots. Stephen Cook made 11 assists. Lamar McKnight led Walters (7-7, 3-5) with 22 points.
Kierra Johnson scored 20 of her 26 points after halftime for the Cleveland State women (13-1, 7-1) and added 10 rebounds and five steals, and Takeya Day’s putback basket with 24 seconds left was the winning margin. She had seven rebounds and six steals while matching Stephanie Anderson’s 11 points.
Lortavious Smith, Philip Jenkins, Fitzgerald White and Keith Johnson had 14, 13, 12 and 11 points in defeat for the Cougars (8-8, 1-7). Volonte Bell had five assists.
* Also in Cleveland, Lee University swept visiting Brewton-Parker in Southern States Athletic Conference play, 98-65 in the women’s game and 91-66 in the men’s. Brooke McKinnon and Hollie German led five double-figure scorers for the Lady Flames (12-3, 2-0) with 15 and 13 points, and Kally Eldridge had seven assists and four steals. Jerel Blocker scored 20 points for the Flames (14-4, 3-0), and Antonio Haymon and Stephen McClellan added 13 apiece.
* At Athens, Tenn., Tennessee Wesleyan managed to sweep Bluefield in Appalachian Athletic Conference games, the Bulldogs pulling out a 73-71 win after the first-place Lady Bulldogs rallied to win 56-51. Heather Gibson, Amy Jo Castor and Candace Cain scored 13, 11 and 10 points for the TWC women (13-3, 3-0), and Rochelle Davidson matched Gibson’s 10 rebounds.
Matt Harper scored 22 points and Matt Towry had 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulldogs (8-8, 2-1), and Sean Bridges had 11 points and five assists. E’Jay Ward contributed seven assists.
* At Waleska, Ga., the first-place Bryan Lions edged host Reinhardt 80-75 in overtime after the Lady Eagles won 69-51 in their AAC doubleheader. Ishmael John scored 32 for the Eagles (5-11, 1-2), but Scott Newton had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Xavierian McCall scored 16 points, Lavonte Henderson had 13 points and eight rebounds and Astral Guerrier had 13 rebounds with 11 points for the Lions (12-6, 3-1).
* At Sewanee, Tenn., Chelsea Leeder’s 24 points and nine rebounds led Southwestern to a 90-54 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win over Sewanee’s women. Logan Miller had 14 points in defeat. The Sewanee men whipped the Texas school, however, 91-52, as Valentino Bryant had 19 points and five assists and Brett Bouldin, Anvil Nelson and Trent Williams scored 17, 16 and 14 points. Tyler Brown and Nelson had eight and seven rebounds for the Tigers (6-8, 2-5), winning for only the second time in nine games.