Monica San Juan shot a 4-under-par 68 Saturday at the Furman Golf Club as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team rose to seventh in the 17-team Lady Paladin Invitational. The Mocs shot a collective 1-over 289 for a two-day 592, one stroke behind Memphis. San Juan is tied for 14th individually at 146 and teammate Cristina Perez shares 19th at 148, while Megan Woods and Maddy McDaniel are at 150 and Holly Morgan is at 151. Daytona State is the team leader at 573, while Middle Tennessee State is third at 583 with Jenna Burris from Manchester tied for sixth individually at 143.
Volleyball
-The UTC volleyball team ended a five-match losing streak with a 3-0 Southern Conference home win Saturday against UNC Greensboro. The set scores were 25-23, 28-26, 25-18. Lauren Greenspoon had 37 assists, 12 digs and three aces and Ally Ford and Emily Plumlee registered 13 and 11 kills for UTC (8-8, 1-1), while Megan Kaufman had 23 digs.
-Lee University got its first Gulf South volleyball win of the season, 3-1 at Union (Tenn.) by the set scores of 25-18, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18. Silvia Sartori had 17 kills and 12 digs, Bailey Kress 11 kills, Kristi Farley 28 assists, Sadie Johnson 18 assists, MaKayle Beebe 19 digs and Allie Koepfer 16 digs with eight kills for Lee (7-3, 1-2).
-Covenant College took two 3-1 USA South volleyball wins Saturday at LaGrange, over Piedmont as well as the hosts. In the 25-12, 21-25, 25-19, 25-19 defeat of LaGrange, Hannah Harris had 15 kills, Ginny Moore 14 kills and 19 digs, Jessica Seehorn 13 kills and 11 digs and Schuyler Moore 44 assists, 13 digs and three aces. Hannah Stewart and Sara Delk added 12 and 11 digs. In the 25-12, 25-19, 27-29, 25-16 win over Piedmont, Covenant (8-6, 3-0) got 20 kills, 26 digs and five aces from Ginny Moore, 41 assists and 12 digs from Schuyler, 18 digs from Stewart, 17 digs and nine kills from Seehorn and nine kills also from Harris.