University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football players Taylor Reynolds and Darrell Bridges were most valuable players in the Senior Scout Bowl this past Saturday at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Running back Bridges was the overall MVP in the South’s 28-6 win with a 5-yard touchdown run, three long runs that set up teammates’ scores and a total of almost 100 yards rushing. Reynolds was captain of the South team and the defensive MVP with seven tackles, a sack, a fumble recovery and a blocked punt.
Basketball
» North Alabama edged visiting Lee University 63-62 in Gulf South Conference women’s basketball Monday, and then the Lee men won 81-79 on Jason Landman’s layup with two seconds to go, following a Bryce Copeland defensive rebound. Savannah Stults’ free throw with one second left broke a tie for the UNA women (11-0, 4-0), after Lee’s Lindsey Roddy tied the score in the lane at 0:16. Brittany Panetti had 18 points and 15 rebounds in the win, while Abby Bertram scored 16 points, Roddy had 10 plus four assists and Shelby Brown grabbed nine rebounds for the Lady Flames (9-3, 2-2). For the Flames (8-3, 3-1), Landman had 22 points and seven rebounds and Ryan Montgomery had 12 rebounds with 17 points. Parker Suedekum had 11 points and seven assists and Michael McGuirk added 10 points.
» Dalton State’s NAIA-ranked Roadrunners bounced back from Saturday’s one-point loss at previously winless Martin Methodist with a 95-91 Southern States Athletic Conference win Monday night at Bethel in McKenzie, Tenn. That made the Roadrunners 8-3, 3-1 in the SSAC. Reed Dungan scored 29 points with 7-of-7 3-point accuracy in the win, and Isaiah Box had 23 points with six 3s and nine assists. Sean Chisolm scored 20 points and Carnilious Simmons had 16 points and 12 rebounds for DSC.
» Six Covenant College players scored in double figures in a 100-85 win over Austin College on Monday at Rhodes College in Memphis. Patjo Twagirayezu with 20 points and eight rebounds and Berto Dryden with 18 points and six assists led the Scots (5-3), who got 13 points, 10 rebounds and four assists from Bailey Spragg. Will Crumly and James Mitchell added 12 points each, Crumly with eight rebounds, and Caleb Haynes was 5-of-6 from the field in scoring 10 points.