Rico Overall hit a 3-point shot with one second left Saturday to give the Lee University men’s basketball team a 77-75 win over Palm Beach Atlantic in the Sailfish’s Joe McCormick Classic. Cody Jones led Lee with 15 points on five 3s and Overall hit four in matching Keevin Tyus with 14 points. Tyus also had eight rebounds and Cody Farley and Jervon Johnson had five and four assists for the Flames (3-1).
* Carnilious Simmons had 19 points and 16 rebounds and Isaiah Box and Sayvon Wilson scored 17 and 16 points as the Dalton State basketball team rose to 4-0 with a 71-59 win Saturday against Johnson & Wales from Florida in the winners’ Roadrunner Thanksgiving Classic.
* Asbury University outshot Tennessee Wesleyan 48.4 to 34.4 percent and had a 42-24 margin in rebounds in beating the Lady Bulldogs 81-55 in the first day of the NAIA D2 Showcase at Kingsport, Tenn. Oney Harrison and Brittany Warren led the scoring with 23 and 17 points, and Kali Whiteside had 20 rebounds for the 3-4 Kentucky team. Gina Dick led TWU (4-4) with 14 points and six rebounds, and Madison Walkup and Hunter Simpson added 13 and 12 points.
* Sophomore Bella Taylor matched her career high with 30 points and four teammates also scored in double figures as the Sewanee women’s basketball team beat Methodist 87-71 Saturday in the Pat Deacon Classic hosted by Transylvania in Lexington, Ky. Hannah McCormack scored 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting and Corey Caulder had 12 points for the Tigers (2-2), who got 11 points and 10 assists from Sue Kim and 11 points with eight rebounds and five assists from Allison Hitchcock. Sewaneee had 27 assists and only 13 turnovers and was 15-of-38 on 3-pointers, led by Taylor at 6-of-10 and Caulder at 4-of-9.
Running
* Dalton State College freshman Ryan Gebelein from Heritage High School won the inaugural Chattanooga Hungry Turkey Trot half marathon Saturday with a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes, 48 seconds. Matthew Russell was second out of 272 finishers in 1:17:14, and Andree Shultz and Michael Morrell were third and fourth in 1:19:52 and 1:23:37. Dianna Leun was fifth and the first female finisher in 1:28:44, two days after being the second female in the Turkey Trot 8k and two weeks after winning the Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon. Julianna Mattson was the women’s runner-up and 13th overall Saturday in 1:36:22, and Jill Raflee and Holly Swinea were 15th and 16th overall, both in 1:36:55. Joel Deckard won the accompanying 5k in 17:26 – 51 seconds ahead of second-place Justin Collins – and Kenzie Freeman was the first female and sixth overall in 19:09.
Wrestling
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestling coach Heath Eslinger will be the guest speaker for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without.