The Lee University women’s golf team finished second by seven strokes to Montevallo’s 591 in the 13-team LeeAnn Noble Memorial tournament Tuesday at Achasta Golf Club in Dahlonega, Ga. Lee freshman Annika Gino tied for fifth individually at 146, while Sam Burrus and Caroline Moore tied for 11th at 151 and Cailey Gino and Anne Hedegaard were in the group at 22nd at 154.
* The Lee men were fourth out of 14 teams in the 54-hole TVA Credit Union Invitational at Killen, Ala. The Flames shot 878; host North Alabama won with an 854. Lee’s Adam Wright was sixth at 215, and fellow Flames Shea Sylvester and Matt Johnson tied for 12th and 14th at 220 and 221. Dylan Lillard closed with a 71 and tied for 25th at 224.
* Chattanooga-area pros Kelvin Burgin, Richard Rebne, Greg Wyatt and Henrik Simonsen helped the Tennessee Section PGA defeat 16 of the state’s top amateur golfers 19-13 in the Tennessee Challenge Cup last weekend at Stonehenge at Fairfield Glade. Burgin, Rebne and Wyatt won with their partners in four-ball, Burgin and Rebne also were among the foursome winners and Simonsen halved his singles match. The pro team also won, 16.5-15.5, in Georgia’s similar Billy Peters Matches. Dalton amateur David Noll Jr. and his partner won 5 and 4 in the Sunday four-ball session and ended all square in foursomes.
Volleyball
* Silvia Sartori had 20 kills and 19 digs as Lee beat visiting Union University 3-1 in Gulf South Conference volleyball Tuesday. Brooke Wilsman added nine kills and 10 digs and Catherine Conley had eight kills in the 25-13, 24-26, 25-13, 25-16 win for the Lady Flames (9-10, 5-6), and Sadie Johnson and Kristi Farley had 24 and 20 assists. MaKayla Beebe had 18 digs and four aces.
* Covenant College clinched the top West seed in the USA South tournament with a 3-0 win (25-18, 25-22, 25-13) Tuesday at Maryville, as Ginny Moore had 13 kills and 14 digs and Schuyler Moore had 32 assists. Hannah Harris had eight kills and Jessica Seehorn had seven kills with 13 digs to go with Hannah Stewart’s 18 digs for the Lady Scots (15-2, 10-2).
* Reinhardt won 3-1 (27-25, 25-16, 23-25, 25-14) in AAC volleyball at Bryan College, which got nine and eight kills from Hope Burnett and Rachel Mosley and 36 assists and 19 digs from Shelby Enochs.
* Georgia Northwestern ended its volleyball season Monday with a 3-1 win (25-22, 25-15, 12-25, 25-23) over visiting Oakwood University. Sierra Crew had nine kills and Kaitlyn Castle had seven for the Lady Bobcats (3-10), while Shelby Thompson and Serena Turner had 10 and eight assists and Madalyn Morrison had four aces, five blocks and the match-ending kill.
Soccer
* Lee senior midfielder Kinsey Cichowitz was the GSC women’s soccer player of the week and junior midfielder McKenzie Bricker was the defensive honoree for their parts in the Lady Flames’ 6-0 and 5-1 league wins. Cichowitz scored five goals in the two matches, and Bricker had three assists against West Alabama.
* Bryan’s Brad Spooner was the AAC men’s soccer offensive player of the week for his three goals in a 4-0 win over Truett-McConnell, and the Lions (12-0-2, 5-0-1) won 2-1 in overtime Tuesday night at Reinhardt with Spooner assisting Pablo Idleder on a goal at 7:13 and then scoring the game-winner at 117:49.
* Carl Simakoff scored from a John O’Carroll assist 2:32 into overtime to give Covenant a 1-0 USA South men’s soccer win at Piedmont on Tuesday. The Scots (4-9-2, 4-5) won despite being outshot 12-5.
* Maryville scored twice in the first 10 minutes and went on to a 5-1 men’s soccer win Tuesday night at Sewanee. Thomas Palmer scored two unassisted goals for the Scots (13-2). Marco Randazzo scored from a Kyle Johnston pass for the Tigers (7-8-2).
* The Red Bank-based Premier Soccer Academy under-18 Los Guapos won the under-20 top division of the Kicks Invitational last weekend in Huntsville, Ala. Coached by Pedro Kozak with Kevin Stophel assisting, Los Guapos won 3-1 and 2-1 in pool play and 2-0 in the championship match against the EESC 98 Boys Showcase.