Kendall Sexton had 10 kills with a .529 attack percentage for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team Saturday afternoon, but visiting Western Carolina won the Southern Conference match 3-0 with set scores of 25-20, 25-19, 25-21.
Addy George had 11 kills, Cristina Nazario set 25 assists and Morgan Cochran had 17 digs for WCU (14-4, 4-0). Briana Reid had eight kills with 17 digs and Sarah Batterton added seven kills for UTC’s Mocs (2-17, 1-3), while Anne Bachmann and Catherine Chason had 18 and 13 assists and Melissa Green also had 17 digs.
“We saw some positive play out of our team despite the loss,” Mocs coach Travis Filar said in a school release. “We played Western Carolina very tightly today. We know we’re just on the edge of where we want to be.”
• At Memphis, Alexis Gillis had 21 kills and Jessica Reber had 46 assists as Christian Brothers beat Lee University 3-0 in Gulf South Conference volleyball (25-13, 22-25, 25-21, 25-20). Paula Martins had 11 kills and Lauren Williams and Latrice Johnson had 10 each for Lee (6-4, 3-3), while Becky Bourne had 29 assists and Sarah Davis and Libby Peigen contributed 12 and 11 digs. Johnson and Patty Orozco served four and three aces.
• At Laurinburg, N.C., Bryan College continued to roll through the Appalachian Athletic Conference with a 25-10, 25-10, 25-18 breeze past St. Andrews. Kara Stamper had nine kills and Chelsea Breaden and Meghan Lowry added eight and seven for the winning Lady Lions (21-1, 11-0), while Taylor Fink had 32 assists and Corrie Walker had 10 digs.