The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team won the first set Saturday against 22nd-ranked Michigan State University but lost 3-1 (21-25, 25-23, 25-16, 25-15) and later fell 3-0 (25-17, 25-12, 25-15) to the host team in the Tennessee Classic at Knoxville. Tennessee had beat MSU 3-1 on Friday. UTC senior Miranda Elpers had 12 kills and 18 digs against the Spartans, when Gylian Finch had 11 kills on a .421 hitting percentage, Dani Szczepanski added eight kills, Jaquelyn Langhaim and Maddie Halsey had 22 and 15 assists and Megan Kaufman had 11 digs. Against the Lady Volunteers (3-0), Szczepanski led the Mocs with six kills on .500 hitting and made the all-tournament team, and Halsey and Langhaim had 11 and 10 assists. Lily Felts and Tessa Grubbs had 13 and 11 kills for Tennessee, and Sedona Hansen and Callie Williams each set 17 assists.
* Lee University dropped to 0-4 in volleyball with 3-0 (25-14, 25-21, 25-10) and 3-1 (25-21, 22-25, 25-11, 25-12) losses Saturday to Colorado School of Mines and to Davenport at the Oredigger Classic in Golden, Colorado. Silvia Sartori had 11 kills, Hanna Matthews 14 assists and 10 digs and MaKayla Beebe 14 digs against Mines. Beebe had 33 digs against Davenport, whike Bailey Kress and Alex Reuter had 10 and eight kills, Matthews 17 assists, Kylee Smith 15 assists and 14 digs and Allie Koepfer 13 digs.
* Bryan College lost 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-21) and also 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-21) to the host team Saturday in the Faulkner Invitational in Montgomery, Alabama, and Tennessee Wesleyan University lost 3-1 (25-27, 29-27, 25-15, 25-16) to Southeastern and 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-11) to Mobile. In that last match, TWU (2-6) got 10 kills from Sydney Ritten, 16 digs from Sovanna Ramirez and 21 combined assists from Sam Cossidente and Tia Madden. For Bryan against Mobile, Paige Randolph and Rebecca Camacho had nine kills each, Jennifer Keck 22 assists and 10 digs and Anna Owens and Macenzie Krause 13 digs apiece. Keck had 13 assists against Faulkner.
* Cleveland State won 3-0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-20) in Knoxville over Johnson University of Florida and takes a 2-0 record into Monday’s 6:30 p.m. home opener against Gadsden State.
* King University junior Rebekah Hill from Harrison and Central High School led the Tornado with 10 digs in a 3-0 victory over Virginia State University and had eight digs with six kills in a 3-2 loss to North Greenville in VSU’s tournament Saturday. King is 3-1.
* Kayleigh Goff had six aces, 10 digs and eight assists as Georgia Northwestern opened its season Friday night with a 3-1 loss (25-9, 25-13, 20-25, 25-21) at Welch College. Mia Clark and Katie Dixon served three aces each.
Soccer
* Bryan College divided 2-1 overtime decisions in its home soccer doubleheader Saturday, falling to the West Virginia Tech men but edging the Bethel women. Makena Giles’ second goal assisted by Johanna Rappe at 106:42 won for the Lady Lions (1-1), who got a tying goal at 47:20 from Giles, doubly assisted by Rappe and Anna Sanders, and six saves by Caragan Treola. The Bryan men (0-1) scored in the seventh minute, Brad Spooner from Joao Paulo Pinheiro and Michael Torner, but gave up goals by Sergio Sanchez at 44:08 and 94:47 and were outshot 15-3 and outcornered 12-0.
* The Tennessee Wesleyan University men improved to 3-0 with a 3-2 win Saturday over Southeastern at SCAD Savannah’s tournament. All the scoring was in the last 34 minutes, and TWU trailed 1-0 and 2-1. Nick Davis, Gabriel Gonzalez and Harry Baggaley (at 86:08) scored for the Bulldogs, and Ben Timms and Kyle Wynne had assists.
Fishing
* After two days in second place, David Walker of Sevierville, Tennessee, took the lead Saturday in the Bassmaster Elite tournament on the St. Lawrence River at Waddington, New York. He takes a total of 72 pounds, 5 ounces into the 12-man final round after a five-bass limit of 22-15. Josh Bertrand of Arizona was a close second at 72-2 in the race for the $100,000 top prize, and Justin Lucas of Guntersville, Alabama, and Brandon Lester of Fayetteville, Tennessee, were third and fourth at 70-3 and 69-14. Spring City residents Wesley Strader and John Murray finished 38th and 48th at 58-0 and 50-2 and got $10,000 apiece.
Golf
* Georgia Northwestern won 304-309 over host Northeast Alabama on Friday at Dogwood Hills in Flat Rock, Alabama, a week after beating Northeast by 42 strokes over two rounds at LaFayette Golf Course. In the 18-hole rematch, the Bobcats got 75s from Noah Hankins and Lane Strickland, 77s from Spencer Alexander and Cole Roberts and a 78 from Ryan Redd.