Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga runner John Gilpin won the Raccoon Mountain 10k on Saturday in 34 minutes, 39 seconds, and Kristen Curtis was the women’s winner and fifth overall in 41:37. Ryan McGinnis (37:58), Jeremy Miller (39:35) and Tripp McCallie (40:28) were second through fourth, and Haley Moody (42:00) was sixth as the female runner-up. Miller and Jennie Gentry were the masters winners, eighth-place Mayes Starke and Barbara Ensign the grand masters honorees and John Crawley and Ivy Knight the senior grand masters victors. Brandon Humphrys and Kristen Bonsor were the 5k winners in 18:51 and 20:58, Bonsor third overall behind James Mason (19:56), and Anna Lunsford (23:30) was the second female and sixth overall.
* With a 14th-place individual finish from Christian Noble in the men’s 8k and a 17th and school-record-shattering 17:14.2 from Chloe Flora in the 5k, Lee University finished 15th out of 26 teams in the women’s gold race and 18th out 29 in the men’s gold event Saturday at the NCAA Division I-dominated Louisville Cross Country Classic. UTC was 18th in the women’s race, 24th in the men’s. The Mocs’ Emily Poole was 43rd individually; Lee’s Amy Carpenter was 66th.
* First-place finishers Lilly Smith and Caleb Aikens led Covenant College to the team championships of the Maryville Invitational. Covenant’s Nate Collins and Matthew Tueller were second and third in the men’s race, with four teammates eighth through 11th. The Lady Scots’ Hannah Samuels, S.K. Lipperd, Alexandra May and Michelann Settle were fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth.
Soccer
* The Lee University men’s team completed a Gulf South Conference doubleheader sweep Friday night with a 3-0 victory at Delta State. After the Lady Flames won 1-0 late in the second overtime period, the Flames’ Alfie Coldron, Palle Jespersen and Samaan Williams scored unassisted in the first 10:19 of the men’s game. Lee (6-2-1, 4-0) had a 16-4 margin in shots.