Chattanooga tennis pro Wesley Cash got a call Saturday morning to get to Miami for the World ITF Team Competition that starts today. One of the United States players in the men’s 60-over age group had emergency surgery, and Cash was next in line for the national team. This is his fifth time in World ITF team play, and he also will play in the individual competition starting Saturday. He joins Max Buyckx from Atlanta, Sal Castillo from San Antonio and captain Ross Persons in the Davis Cup-style format. They face Mexico today.
-After reaching the singles quarterfinals and doubles semifinals with their play Friday in the Georgia Southern fall men’s tournament, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga tennis players Niklas Gerdes and Simon Bustamante lost in the main draw Saturday, but Jacob Marshall beat two Kennesaw State players in consolation singles and also won in doubles with Cooper Long. Luke Plaisted and Pablo Llebeili also won a doubles consolation match.
Volleyball
-Ally Ford had 19 kills and Dani Szczepanski, Emily Plumlee and Miranda Elpers added 14, 13 and 12 – Elpers with 18 digs – as URC pulled out a 3-2 Southern Conference win Saturday over The Citadel. The set scores were 25-21, 25-22, 25-27, 22-25, 15-11. Also for the Mocs (13-13, 6-6), Lauren Greenspoon had 30 assists and 13 digs, Plumlee had a block solo with six block assists and Megan Kaufman had 12 digs.
-Nationally 22nd-ranked West Florida improved to 22-6 and 12-0 in the Gulf South Conference with a 3-0 win (25-11, 25-11, 25-17) Saturday at Lee University. MaKayla Beebe had 18 digs and Sadie Johnson had 10 assists for the Lady Flames (16-7, 7-4), whose kills leaders were Ellisia Kimble and Brooke Wilsman with five each.