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Area sports notes: SAA honors 10 from Sewanee lacrosse

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Sewanee’s Michele Dombrowski was voted the 2019 Southern Athletic Association women’s lacrosse coach of the year for the third time in seven seasons, and nine of her players received All-SAA recognition. The Tigers went 12-7 and were seeded second for the conference tournament. Brianna Young, Grace Zechman, Logan Bulls and Sarah Strand were first-team selections, and Annie Sherrill, Hattie Fogarty and Anna Comer made the second team. Kelly Thomsen and Brooke Winfield earned honorable mention. Young stopped 94 shots with a league-best .540 save percentage; Zechman had 16 goals and an SAA-record 58 assists; Bulls caused 43 turnovers and scooped 59 ground balls; Strand had 47 goals, 11 assists and 72 draw controls.

» Sewanee lost 13-7 Friday in its SAA men’s lacrosse tournament semifinal in Memphis against top-seeded Rhodes (14-3) and ended its season with a 10-7 record. Mitchell Ryan and Cameron Acuff each scored two goals in defeat, and Ryan Stubits won 19 of 23 face-offs and collected 13 ground balls. He ended with school and SAA records of 282 face-offs won in a season and 721 in a career.

» Lee University sophomore Kaylyn Dillon made the All-Gulf South Conference women’s lacrosse team for the second year in a row. She had 16 goals and four assists this season and led the GSC with 68 draw controls and 4.25 per game.

Soccer

» The Chattanooga Football Club will host AFC Mobile tonight at 7:30 at Finley Stadium. It’s CFC’s first match since beating Detroit City 1-0 on April 6, and it’s the second match on the 2019 schedule for AFC Mobile, which lost 5-0 to Spring Hill College on April 13.