Austin Berry’s two goals and an assist in a nine-minute span of the second half Thursday led Covenant College to a 3-0 USA South men’s soccer win over LaGrange on Lookout Mountain. Berry scored from a Parker Owen assist at 63:02, headed a Noah Lee pass to Keegan Weekley for a score at 68:30 and scored off a deflected clearance at 71:35. The Scots (10-5-1, 7-2-1) had margins of 20-5 in shots, 7-2 in on-goal attempts and 12-1 in corner kicks. The Covenant women (8-7-1) lost 4-0 at Emory (10-4-1) but got 16 saves from Rachel Lemay.
» The Bryan College women rallied for a 2-1 win at Union College in Appalachian Athletic Conference play Wednesday, and the Bryan men followed with a 3-1 victory with two goals from Brad Spooner and the go-ahead score by Jonathan Ricketts. Alex Horton had seven saves for the winning Lions (8-4-2, 4-2-1). For the Lady Lions (6-7-1, 5-3-1), Paula Dapena Sanchez scored the tying goal from a Johanna Rappe assist at 67:21 and Jessica Chaveiro netted the winner from Makena Giles’ assist at 79:25. Caragan Treola made five saves.
» Tennessee Wesleyan University’s women rose to 7-2-1 in the AAC, 7-5-1 overall, with a 2-0 home win over Reinhardt (9-5, 7-2). Dayna Randall scored at 52:36 from Hannah Dearing’s assist and joined Emiley Saddler in assisting Chloe Rootes’ goal at 85:51. TWU led 17-5 in shots, 7-1 in shots on goal.
Running
» Lee University’s Christian Noble and Casey Guthery were the Gulf South Conference men’s cross country runner and freshman of the week, and Chloe Flora was the women’s runner of the week, all for their performances in the Royals Challenge in Charlotte, North Carolina. Noble broke his school 8k record and finished first out of 395 runners, and Guthery was 44th. Flora was eighth out of 412 runners in the 5k.
» Sewanee’s Ash Midyett was chosen the Southern Athletic Association men’s cross country runner of the week for his 51st-place finish in the Berry Invitational’s big field. Midyett’s time was more than 90 seconds faster than his previous 8k best this season.
Volleyball
» Tennessee Wesleyan University lost 3-1 (25-21, 25-16, 22-25, 25-15) in its AAC volleyball match Tuesday night at Montreat. Avery Hilliard and Miyah Woodard had nine kills apiece, with Hilliard adding six block assists and a block solo, for TWU (13-15, 9-6), while Kalyse Garrett and Gabi Catt had 19 and 13 assists, and Sovanna Ramirez had 20 digs.
» Bryan College lost 3-0 (25-20, 25-23, 25-16) at Union College in their AAC match Tuesday. For Bryan (9-15, 5-9), Anna Owens and Mariah Dunlop had eight and seven kills, Rheagan Keen 20 digs, Sidney Pierce 11 assists and Veronica Salas nine assists and 11 digs. Union is 12-13, 9-4.
Golf
» The 17th-ranked Sewanee women’s golfers tied for 10th and the 24th-ranked Sewanee men tied for 15th in their respective 18-team Golfweek D-III Fall Invitational tournaments this week at Sandestin, Florida. Rhodes won the women’s event with a 54-hole 920. Meghan Symonds paced Sewanee’s 961 with a 21st-place 237, while Sophie Morrill shot 240 and Natalie Javadi added a 243. Emory’s 842 won the men’s tournament, where Sewanee totaled 901 with a 38th-place 222 from Nick Powell and a 226, a 227 and a 229 from Michael Olmsted, Woodson Smith and Nic Vandeventer.
Swimming & Diving
» Sewanee freshman Anthony Carbone was the SAA men’s swimming athlete of the week and Tigers junior Noel Whitlock was the women’s diver of the week after each won two individual events in the season-opening meet against Centre. Carbone also anchored the winning men’s 200 medley relay.
Football
» The time and location of Sewanee’s football game Saturday have been changed by the threat of inclement weather, but the Tigers still will be playing the Trinity Tigers in San Antonio, Texas. Kickoff has been moved up two hours to noon EDT, and the game will be at the Valero Alamo Bowl.
Outdoors
» The T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League Regional Championship presented by Realtree Fishing is set for Oct. 25-27 out of Dayton Boat Dock on Lake Chickamauga. One of six BFL regionals, it includes boater and co-angler qualifiers from the Choo Choo, Illini, LBL and Mountain divisions. The top six boaters and co-anglers in the regional will advance to the 2019 BFL All-American, set for May 30-June 1 on the Potomac River, and each winner next week will get a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Mercury or Evinrude motor. The winning boater also will receive a check for $20,000. Dayton Boat Dock also will host a tournament in the big-league FLW Tour next May 2-5.
