Vols T logoFormer University of Tennessee standout Raven Chavanne was named Friday to the USA Softball national team for 2016, and current Volunteers Rainey Gaffin, Meghan Gregg and Brooke Vines were selected for the women’s elite team.
The elite team will face the national team in a series of exhibition games and join that group in the World Cup of Softball XI. The 18-player national team also will take part in the XV World Baseball Softball Confederation Women’s World Championship and the Japan Cup. Chavanne is on the national team for the fourth year in a row.
Basketball
* The Sewanee basketball teams split an SAA home doubleheader Friday night against Hendrix, the female Tigers losing 69-49 but the Sewanee guys winning 65-56 as Keshonn Carter and Jacob McCullough scored 14 and 10 points and Clay Born grabbed eight rebounds. Bella Taylor scored 15 points and Corey Caulder added 12 plus 10 rebounds for the Sewanee women, who shot 30.4 percent and had only one assist.
* Freshman Jada Hubbard from Heritage High School had 28 points and four steals as Reinhardt defeated Union College 67-54 in an AAC game Thursday, after junior Erika Woodfin from Dade County scored 24 points with four 3-pointers and Hubbard added 11 points two nights earlier in a win over Columbia. Woodfin had 11 and 10 points in her two previous games of the season, returning from her second ACL injury in two years. Payton Smith from Sonoraville is sitting out this season with a hip injury. Reinhardt is 7-11, 4-3 in the AAC.
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