Covenant College is a close second to Maryville in the USA South’s overall Presidents Cup all-sports standings through the 18-school league’s fall and winter seasons. Maryville has 62 total points to 60.5 for Covenant and 56.5 for third-place Piedmont, which leads the women’s standings with Covenant second. The Lookout Mountain school is third behind leader Maryville and North Carolina Wesleyan in the men’s list after winning the West Division and making the USAS tournament final four in basketball.
Basketball
» The Lee University basketball teams completed their regular seasons Thursday with Gulf South Conference home victories over Shorter, 70-52 in the women’s game and 75-62 in the men’s. Abby Bertram scored 16 points and Haley Schubert and Taylor Boggess added 15 and 13 for Lee’s Lady Flames (22-6, 16-4), and Lindsey Roddy had five assists. Cody Jones led the Flames (15-13) with 23 points, including four 3-point baskets. Parker Suedekum and Colton Blevins each scored 14, Blevins with five assists, and Ryan Montgomery pulled down 10 rebounds.
» Dalton State College’s basketball season may have ended Thursday with a 68-66 loss to Loyola of New Orleans at the Southern States Athletic Conference men’s tournament in Montgomery, Alabama. DSC’s Roadrunners (18-13) could get an at-large bid to the NAIA Division I tournament. Loyola (19-11) went ahead 43-29 but the Roadrunners got even at 66 with 24 seconds to go before falling. Seniors Elijah Staley and Sean Chislom each scored 17 points and junior Randy Bell had 16, while Kingston Frazier had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Staley was voted to the All-SSAC first team and Bell made the second team, and Sean Cranney was on the all-academic team. Aaron Burress was DSC’s Champions of Character representative.
Lacrosse
» Lee’s women pulled out a 14-10 home win Thursday over coach Derrel Martin’s former program, Tennessee Wesleyan University. Becca Broadwick had five goals and two assists and Emma Hill produced four goals and an assist for Lee (3-0), wich trailed 8-5 late in the first half. Mikayla Virden had three goals and four assists and Grace Passantino also netted three goals for TWU (3-1).
» Will Pratt had four goals and an assist, Thomas Lynde four assists and a goal and Hayden Hunt three goals as Sewanee beat visiting Augustana 16-5 in men’s lacrosse Wednesday. Ryan Stubits won 16 of 21 face-offs and fielded 13 ground balls for the Tigers (1-2). The win gave Marty Watters a 100-75 record as Sewanee’s coach. In 11 previous seasons, his Tigers have won four conference championships and been to five NCAA tournaments.
Softball
» Tennessee Wesleyan is 5-1 in softball after beating Asbury 8-1 and 6-4 on Tuesday and defeating Bluefield 9-4 and 3-2 on Wednesday, the last game with all three runs in the final inning. Briana Muller was 3-for-3 with four RBIs and Baylee Sutton tripled and doubled and scored three times in the first win over Bluefield, and Mackenzie Jackson was 4-for-7 in the doubleheader. In the 3-2 win, Cheyenne Strong pitched a three-hitter with 13 strikeouts and was rewarded in the seventh when Muller singled, Sivan Palacios doubled, Malyssa Jeter reached base on a bunt, Courtney Calkins got Muller home with a fielder’s choice, Olivia Housewright hit a tying single and Jocelyn Cantrell pinch-hit a winning sacrifice fly.