Sewanee’s 122nd football home opener today against Washington and Lee highlights Hall of Fame Weekend, with Friday night’s inductees being honored again at halftime. Announced in early May, they are Eddie Krenson, Larry Majors, Jetta McKenzie Pyatt, Phil Savage, Robert Lee Tolley and the 1999 women’s swimming team. The game against the Generals starts at 1 p.m. CDT, and Sewanee is 5-0 in home openers since Tommy Laurendine became the head coach. But the Tigers have lost 10 of the last 11 games in the series, including 28-10 at W&L last year. Each team is 0-1 in 2016.
Wrestling
* Five University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestlers are listed in the WIN (Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine) preseason rankings. Four of the five are seniors: Scottie Boykins (No. 11, 197 pounds), Jared Johnson (No. 15, 285), Michael Pongracz (No. 15, 141) and Sean Mappes (No. 16, 174). The other ranked Moc is Kamaal Shakur (No. 18, 157). Boykin and Shakur were 2016 Southern Conference champions.
Volleyball
* The UTC volleyball team lost 3-1 to fourth-ranked Kansas on Friday in Creighton’s Bluejay Invitational in Omaha, Neb. The set scores were 25-12, 24-26, 25-17, 25-13 in favor of Kansas (8-0), which went 30-3 and reached the NCAA semifinals last year. Kristy Wieser had 12 kills and Allie Davenport had 10 kills and matched Rachel Petkosh with 14 digs for UTC (5-3), while Lauren Greenspoon had 26 assists and Miranda Elpers added 10 digs.