Chattanooga guard Eric Robertson (15) keeps the ball inbounds around Wesleyan guard Tre Tiller during the Mocs’ home basketball game against Tennessee Wesleyan at McKenzie Arena on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn.Tennessee Wesleyan swept its Appalachian Athletic Conference home basketball doubleheader Wednesday evening against Point University, the first-place and nationally 15th-ranked Bulldogs winning 90-79 after the fourth-ranked Lady Bulldogs (10-7, 10-5) won 70-57 over the AAC’s third-place team.
Leland Robinson had 25 points and Tre Tiller scored 16 for the Bulldogs (21-1, 13-1), with Trey Suttles, Devante’ Jenkins and Matt Brown also scoring in double figures and Jenkins and Charles White each making four steals.
Point’s Jonathan Manning was 7-of-8 on 3-point tries and scored 30 points. Melanie Barker had 18 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and four steals for the TWC women (10-7, 10-5), while Madison Walkup had 17 points and nine rebounds and Hunter Simpson and Jara Gasper scored 15 and 12 points. Dereese Owens scored 23 for Point (18-5, 11-4).
* The Bryan College women’s basketball team improved to 20-3 for the season, 12-2 in the AAC, with a 70-50 home victory over Columbia (S.C.) College on Wednesday. Columbia (6-18, 4-12) was tied with the nationally 25th-ranked Lady Lions at halftime. Megan Billingsby had 15 points and nine rebounds and Amber Levi scored 12 points for Bryan, which got 11 points and five assists from Keila Formont and 10 points, nine rebounds and three steals from Cheyenne Shaver.
* Bryan Foster’s well-defended, off-balance 3-pointer in the final seconds banked through the hoop and gave West Georgia Tech a 93-92 overtime victory Tuesday night against Georgia Northwestern at the Rossville Athletic Center. Darrius Fugh and Tyler Shropshire scored 25 points and Dominic Powell added 21 in defeat for the Bobcats (9-12), who led 65-57 at one point, and Shropshire also had eight assists. Cameron Carter and Joe Williams scored 22 and 18 points for the Knights (11-12), and Adrian Tolbert had 15 points and 10 rebounds.
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