The Lee University women’s basketball team bounced back from its first loss of the season Friday against undefeated Embry-Riddle with a 71-49 win Saturday at Nova Southeastern in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Erin Walsh was 4-of-6 on 3-point shots in scoring 18 points for the Lady Flames (5-1), who led 42-12 at halftime. Carrie Cheeks had 12 points and 16 rebounds, Shelby Brown had 13 points with seven rebounds and Lindsey Roddy and Taylor Boggess scored 10 points each. Maddie Long contributed six assists.
-Carson-Newman burst from a two-point halftime lead Saturday and beat visiting Lee University 79-56 in a matchup of 4-0 NCAA Division II men’s basketball teams. Charles Clark and Grant Teichmann had 18 and 16 points and five assists apiece and Mason Bates provided 15 points and 10 rebounds for Carson-Newman. Colton Blevins and Parker Suedekum led Lee with 11 and 10 points, Blevins adding three steals. The Flames shot just 35.6 percent from the field, 28.6 percent after halftime, and the Eagles scored 25 of the game’s last 32 points.
-Dalton State’s men won 80-75 at Carver College in Atlanta on Saturday. That was the 5-2 Roadrunners’ third victory over the Cougars this season.
Golf
-Lee golf coach John Maupin announced this past week three November women’s signees for the 2018-19 school year, including Clara Hulsey from Adairsville, Ga., and Sonoraville High School. The others were Carson McKie from Hoover, Ala., and Hoover High School and Emily Felix from Lake Mary, Fla., and Seminole High. “I couldn’t be more excited about this signing class,” Maupin said in a university release. “We feel like we are adding three wonderful people to our program, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they are able to accomplish together. We addressed a lot of needs with these signings, and I expect that they will have a great impact on our program from day one.” He noted that current Lee seniors Sam Burrus and Caroline Moore will be leaving “big shoes” to fill. Hulsey has been a GHSA all-state golfer three years in a row and was the state runner-up as a freshman, and she won two Southeastern Junior Golf Tour events this past summer. She also considered Division I programs Jacksonville, Appalachian State and Lipscomb but picked the Lady Flames because “the coaches are fantastic, and they have a great golf program that I look forward to being a part of.” Said Maupin: “She seems to have a hunger to constantly improve and a strong desire to be the best. She has only scratched the surface of what she is capable of.” McKie is a two-time Alabama state champion, won the HJGT Birmingham Junior Challenge and was second in an SJGT tournament in Montgomery. Felix won the Premier Junior tour’s Tour Championship at Disney, an IMG Junior tour event and the HJGT’s 54-hole Challenge in Crystal Springs and was third in an American Junior Golf Association tournament.
Wrestling
-University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestling coach Heath Eslinger will be the guest speaker for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $12 with a meal, $4 without.