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Wednesday, November 11, 2026Nov 11

Area sports notes: Volleyball Mocs beat Furman 3-0

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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team improved to 2-0 in Southern Conference play with a 3-0 home win Saturday against Furman. It was the 100th career win for Mocs coach Travis Filar. The set scores were 25-18, 25-22, 25-23. Ally Ford, Mikaela Gauthreaux and Dani Szczepanski each registered 10 kills and Gylian Finch had seven for UTC (6-9), and Jaquelyn Langhaim had 32 assists, four aces and 10 digs. Megan Kaufman added 12 digs.

* Lee University lost for the first time in Gulf South Conference competition this season 3-0 at Montevallo (14-1, 5-0) on Saturday. The set scores were 25-15, 25-17, 25-21. Bailey Kress had nine kills, Silvia Sartori eight kills and 11 digs, Hanna Matthews 17 assists and MaKayla Beebe 14 digs for Lee (6-9, 4-1).

* Lauren Dwyer had 18 kills and 14 digs as Hendrix won 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 25-12, 21-25, 16-14) at Sewanee and rose to 11-4, 4-0 in the Southern Athletic Association. For the Tigers (11-3, 2-2), Destiny Stewart had 18 kills and 13 digs, Sydney White 14 kills and 11 digs, Ellie Pedersen 11 kills on .455 hitting, Constance Connolly 43 assists and Lilly Reilly 20 digs and three aces.

* Covenant College won two USA South matches at home Saturday, 3-2 (24-26, 25-18, 20-25, 25-20, 15-8) over LaGrange and 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-18) over Piedmont. Sophie Puertas had 47 assists and 14 digs and Hannah Stewart had 28 digs for the Lady Scots (5-8, 3-0) against LaGrange. In the same match, Hannah Harris and Alexa Spurling downed 16 and 13 kills, Sara Delk had 15 digs with eight kills, Emily Moore also had 15 digs and Leah Buys served six aces. Puertas had 36 assists and 13 digs against Piedmont, while Allie Jakes had 11 kills, Delk eight kills and 11 digs, Lindsey Stephens eight kills, Stewart 13 digs and Buys and Moore 12 digs each.

* Tennessee Wesleyan is 5-0 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference after winning 3-1 (19-25, 25-14, 25-18, 25-14) Friday at Columbia College and 3-0 (25-11, 25-14, 25-15) Saturday at Allen University, also in Columbia, South Carolina. The Lady Bulldogs’ seventh win in eight matches got them to 9-9 overall.