Volleyball
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team registered its 20th victory of the season Saturday, 3-1 at home against Wofford. The set scores in the Southern Conference match were 28-26, 24-26, 25-19, 25-18. Sarah Batterton had 15 kills and Kristy Wieser had 13, while Briana Reid had 12 plus 17 digs and Lauren Greenspoon had 51 assists and 10 digs for UTC (20-4, 9-2). Senior Catherine Chason and freshman Miranda Elpers had 26 and 22 digs. “We’re calling on different people and winning in different ways,” coach Travis Filar said in a UTC release. He said his team “played very chaotic” in the first two sets but got great leadership in straightening that out. Bella Santoro and Alex Holland each had 15 kills for Wofford (15-14, 6-6). The Mocs play Wednesday night at Samford and host The Citadel and Furman on Friday and Saturday.
* Lee University lost 3-0 (25-15, 25-22, 25-17) in Gulf South volleyball Saturday at West Florida. Silvia Sartori and Catherine Conley had 10 and eight kills and Hillary Hoffpauir had 21 assists for Lee (11-15, 6-10).
* Dalton State lost 3-2 (16-25, 25-13, 25-14, 15-25, 15-4) at Martin Methodist in SSAC volleyball Saturday, leaving each team 5-9 in league play. Savannah Nelson had nine kills and Anna Metzler had eight kills with 14 digs for DSC (11-12), while setter Michala Askew had seven kills and 10 digs with 22 assists. Karly Newman had 14 digs.
* Covenant lost 3-0 to Meredith and 3-2 to Methodist in USA South volleyball Saturday at Raleigh, N.C., but clinched the top seed and host role for the league tournament this Friday and Saturday. Ginny Moore had 11 kills and Schuyler Moore had 21 assists in the 25-14, 25-17, 25-21 loss for the Lady Scots (16-12, 13-3), and Ginny had 20 kills and 18 digs while Schuyler had 50 assists and 12 digs in the 25-20, 19-25, 25-18, 19-25, 16-14 thriller, when Chelsea VanDyk had 11 kills and Jaclyn Stuart made 15 digs.