Oklahoma State heads the 23-team field for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Southern Scuffle wrestling tournament Jan. 1-2. The Cowboys are ranked No. 1 in the Intermat Tournament Preseason Top 25 and are coming off a runner-up finish in last season’s NCAA tournament. Other members of that Top 25 that will be in the Scuffle are No. 5 Missouri, No. 7 Cornell, No. 10 Minnesota, No. 12 Stanford, No. 18 Northern Iowa, No. 19 North Carolina, No. 20 Lehigh and No. 23 Penn. Competitors include 76 wrestlers with preseason Top 25 rankings, among them 25 All-Americans and three NCAA champions.
Volleyball
– UTC outlasted The Citadel 3-2 in a Southern Conference volleyball match Friday at Maclellan Gym. The set scores were 25-14, 25-16, 22-25, 20-25, 15-10. Miranda Elpers had 16 kills and Brianna Anderson had 15 kills and 20 digs for UTC (12-10, 5-4), while Kristy Wieser made 12 kills, Lauren Greenspoon had 32 assists and 15 digs, Rachel Petkosh had 19 digs and Madison Bergren had 18 assists and 11 digs. Moriah Smith had 25 kills and 15 digs and Priscilla Irizarry had 40 assists for the Bulldogs (8-17, 1-8).
– North Alabama beat visiting Lee University 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-20) in Gulf South Conference volleyball Friday and rose to 20-4 overall, 10-3 in the league. Brooke Wilsman had nine kills and 11 digs, Sadie Johnson had 14 assists and MaKayla Beebe had 14 digs to lead Lee (9-11, 5-7). Silvia Sartori added seven kills. Natasha Fomina had 16 kills for UNA.
– Bryan College lost 3-0 (25-10, 25-12, 25-10) to fifth-ranked Lindsey Wilson in the latter’s tournament Friday evening in Columbia, Ky., and then dropped to 15-14 for the season with a 3-1 defeat (20-25, 25-22, 25-14, 26-24) by St. Thomas. Against the Florida team, Mariah Dunlop and Rachel Mosley had 10 and nine kills, Shelby Enochs had 31 assists and 11 digs and Kayla Rymer and Eryn Walker had 19 and 15 digs.