The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team completed nonconference play with a 3-0 loss Saturday to Washingston State in the Dr. Wynn Invitational at Missouri State. Set scores were 28-26, 25-20, 25-18.
All three of UTC’s opponents in the tournament received votes in the latest coaches’ poll. WSU is 11-1.
Ally Ford led the Mocs (7-7) with 17 kills and 17 digs, and Maddie Halsey had 31 assists while Megan Kaufman had 15 digs. Dani Szczepanski and Brianna Anderson each added eight kills.
-At Atlanta, Lee University beat NCAA Division III Top 10 teams Juniata 3-1 (18-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-17) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 3-0 (25-22, 25-13, 25-23) in Emory’s tournament. That gave the Lady Flames six wins in a row, all away from home, after a season-opening loss.
Against Juniata (7-2), Silvia Sartori had 12 kills, six aces and 12 digs while Bailey Kress, Alex Reuter and Ellisia Kimble had nine, eight and seven kills, Sadie Johnson and Kristi Farley 18 and 16 assists and 10 and nine digs, MaKayla Beebe 21 digs and Brooke Wilsman 13 digs. Sartori had 15 kills and 12 digs against CMS, when Reuter had nine kills, Johnson 19 assists and 14 digs, Farley 16 assists and Beebe 25 digs.