With four players finishing in the top 16, the Signal Mountain boys’ golf team won the TSSAA Small Class state championship Tuesday and Wednesday at Manchester’s WillowBrook course, and Signal’s Lindsey Hollis was second individually with Sale Creek third as a team in the girls’ tournament. Hollis, trying to repeat as state champion, shot a second-day 79 for a 154 that trailed Summertown’s Kaley Campbell by six shots. Sale Creek’s Hannah Holland was fourth at 161 and Ashley Holland added a 184 for the Lady Panthers’ 345 – two strokes behind runner-up L&N STEM. Summertown won by 30 strokes with a 313. The Signal boys edged Alcoa 615 to 618 with Trinity Christian third among the eight teams at 630. The Eagles’ Foster Wood was fifth individually at 147 with Benjamin Burns, Beck Lewis and Ben Seay tied for ninth, 11th and 15th at 155, 156 and 158. McMinn Central’s John Houk was seventh at 151, and teammate Bradley Dunkle tied for 20th at 160.
* Tennessee Wesleyan University finished fourth at 646 and Bryan College tied for seventh at 686 out of 11 teams in the Appalachian Athletic Conference Women’s Fall Championship held Monday and Tuesday at the Elizabethton (Tennessee) Golf Club. SCAD Atlanta and host Milligan were first and second. TWU’s Saylem Powell tied for ninth individually at 158, and Bryan’s Taylor Williams tied for 11th at 161. TWU’s Jordann Handy, Ryann McCuistion, Kelsey Cassada and Danielle Bates tied for 13th, 17th, 20th and 23rd at 162, 163, 164 and 165, and Bryan’s Krista Reinhardt also shot 164 in her return to action.
Volleyball
* Samford came to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Wednesday as co-leader of the Southern Conference but left with a 3-2 loss. Overcoming five match points, UTC (8-12, 4-3) won by the set scores of 19-25, 25-20, 16-25, 26-24, 18-16 as Jaquelyn Langhaim had 54 assists and fellow freshman Gylian Finch had 14 kills and 13 digs. Dani Szczepanski added 12 kills, Emily Plumlee had eight and Megan Kaufman and Miranda Elpers had 22 and 16 digs. Samford (10-11, 5-2) got 13 or more kills from four players, led by Lauren Deaton with 19 plus 22 digs, and 59 assists from Taylor Anderton.
* Sole sophomore Kayla Wimpee had 17 kills as Chattanooga State’s first-year program defeated Cleveland State’s second-year Lady Cougars for the second time this season, 3-1 on Wednesday. The set scores in the TCCAA match were 25-23, 20-25, 25-15, 25-23. Emily Redden had 27 assists and Sidney Killingsworth contributed 10 kills, 12 digs and six blocks for the Lady Tigers (11-6, 2-1), while Cayla Jacob was in on nine blocks, Sakari Pack had seven kills, Dakota Rawiszer had 11 assists and Brieana Hemphill had nine digs and six blocks. Cleveland State is 8-11, 0-3.