The Lee University women’s basketball team maintained its hold on first place in the Gulf South Conference with its sixth consecutive win Thursday night, 58-43 at home against Montevallo. The Lee men (10-7, 7-2) won 65-55 as Colton Blevins scored 14 points, Michael McGuirk added 13 with nine rebounds and Cody Jones had 10 points. Parker Suedekum had five assists and seven rebounds. For the Lady Flames (14-3, 8-1), Haley Schubert and Abby Bertram scored 16 and 15 points, Bertram with five 3-point baskets and Schubert with four assists, and Becca Cheeks had eight rebounds.
» Despite 21 points and 13 rebounds by Elijah Staley, Dalton State lost 73-72 at Loyola of New Orleans in Southern States Athletic Conference men’s basketball. D’Anfernee Pugh added 13 points, seven rebounds and six assists for the Roadrunners (10-7, 5-4), who led 40-34 early in the second half but fell behind 69-63. Zach Wrightsil and Myles Burns had 22 and 16 points and 10 and 13 rebounds for Loyola (10-6).
» Chattanooga State’s men bounced back from a 92-84 league loss Wednesday at Roane State with a 90-82 nonconference home win Thursday against Coastal Alabama-Bay Minette, making the Tigers 10-7 overall. They have won four of their last five games and are 4-4 in the TCCAA.
Tennis
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s tennis team begins its spring-semester schedule Saturday against Mississippi State at Samford in Birmingham and follows Sunday with its home opener against Austin Peay. That match will be played at McCallie’s Strang-Voges indoor courts, beginning at 1 p.m. The five returners for third-year Mocs coach Chad Camper are seniors Delaney Edwards and Caroline Hall, junior Annie Tarwater and sophomores Emma Van Hee and Bogdana Zaporozhets, joined by three freshmen. UTC is 3-0 all-time against Mississippi State, but the programs last met in 1984.
» The Sewanee tennis teams go into the spring-semester parts of their schedules with an ITA No. 12 women’s ranking and a No. 23 men’s national slot in NCAA Division III. The female Tigers are No. 3 in the Atlantic South Region behind 2018 national runner-up Emory and Carnegie-Mellon. Sewanee men’s senior Jack Gray from Baylor School is 13th in the region individual rankings.
Lacrosse
» Tennessee Wesleyan was picked second behind Reinhardt in the nine-team Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s lacrosse poll released recently for the 2019 season. TWU’s Lady Bulldogs got the two first-place votes Reinhardt didn’t get. They open their season Feb. 16 at home against Point.
Academics
» Six Lee athletes made the GSC fall all-academic teams announced Thursday: cross country runners Amy Carpenter (3.94 cumulative GPA, math major) and Charlee Boxall (3.66, nursing) and soccer players Kelsey Yoder (4.0o, nursing), Mia Hollingsworth (3.74, psychology), Jake Brown (3.73, accounting) and Daniel Hrenko (3.30, business administration).