Chattanooga resident Sarah Kate Gartman was 17th individually in the NAIA women’s cross country meet Saturday in Vancouver, Wash., and she led Milligan College to a seventh-place finish. Gartman’s time of 17:56 on the 5-kilometer course counted as 14th place in compiling team points. Representing Tennessee Wesleyan as individuals, Hannah Rhodes was 116th in the 5k and Jonas Simon was 87th in the men’s 8k.
Basketball
* Jonny Crumly had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Sewanee as the Tigers lost 64-60 to Methodist on Sunday in the final game of their Lon Varnell Classic. Crumly came off the bench and shot 7-for-9, including 6-for-8 from 3-point range. Hunter Buescher added 12 points and Luke Smith 10 for Sewanee (1-1). Methodist is 1-1.
* The Dalton State College men rolled 92-71 against Carver College in Life University’s Running Eagle Classic on Saturday in Marietta, Ga. DSC (4-1), ranked No. 6 in NAIA Division I, scored the first nine points of the game, led 47-27 at halftime and never trailed. Scoring in double figures for the Roadrunners were Reed Dungan (22 points), Aaron Burress (16), Sean Chislom (14) and Raheem England (14).
Swimming
* McCallie and Dalton finished first and second among 18 boys’ teams and Harpeth Hall was the girls’ winner out of 23 teams in the 25th annual McCallie Invitational this past weekend. Dalton was fourth in the combined standings, behind Westminster, Ensworth and Collins Hill, and the Chattanooga Area Homeschool team was 10th – and seventh on the girls’ list, two spots behind GPS. McCallie won the 200-yard medley relay at the beginning and the 400 freestyle relay with a meet-record 3:14.06 at the end, with Dalton second in both cases. Jake Marcum, who was on both of those winning relays (along with Reese Gallagher), also won the 100 free and 100 backstroke events, and McCallie’s Ethan Bevill and Dalton’s Ross Valdez were first and second in the 100 butterfly. Bevill was on the winning medley relay and the runner-up 200 free relay and was second with Gallagher fourth and the home-schoolers’ Gabriel Johnson between them in the 200 individual medley. Johnson was second in the 500 free with McCallie’s Will Jackson and Max Ransom third and sixth and Dalton’s Valdez and Anthony Calderon-Schuler fourth and fifth. Ransom and Jackson were part of the record 400 relay and were second and third in the 200 free with Calderon-Schuler fourth. The home-schoolers’ Luke Massey won the 100 breaststroke with Dalton’s Henry Bethel third and McCallie’s Gallagher fifth, and Massey and Dalton’s Jonathan Shaheen were second and third in the 50 free. Shaheen was fourth in the 100 free, Raul Valdez was fourth in the 100 back and teammate Alex Mashburn was fifth in the 100 fly. The home-schoolers’ Grayson Payne led off two second-place girls’ relays and won the 100 back with Arts & Sciences’ Carlin Hudson third and GPS’s Emma Scruggs fourth, and Scruggs was second with teammate Jillian Cantrell fourth in the 200 IM. Payne was third with Heritage’s Hannah Smith sixth in the 100 free, the home-schoolers’ Laura Jennings was third in the 50 free and Cleveland’s Breanna Belcher was third in the 100 breast. Hudson and Cantrell were fourth and fifth in the 100 fly.
* Sewanee’s Noel Whitlock and Kate del Balzo set Fowler Center pool records as the female Tigers finished second out of nine teams in Sewanee’s Igloo Invitational on Saturday, and the Sewanee men were first out of seven teams with eight event victories, including two individual wins apiece from Carl Failing and Lee Haber and a diving pool record from Jed Henrichsen. Freshmen Jacob Finco, Failing, Robert Coles and James Hoyt won the 200-yard free relay, and Finco and Hoyt also won individual races. Whitlock set women’s records in both the 3- and 1-meter 11-dive events, with 447.90 and 430.42 points, and del Balzo set a 200 butterfly record of 2.15.98 in the preliminaries before taking first place. Sewanee’s Meghan Mulhern won the 1650 free, and Abby Rapuano was third out of 34 swimmers in the 50 free.