University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman tennis player Jessie Young won the singles championship of the University of Cincinnati/Pam Whitehead Invitational with a 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (9) defeat of Xavier’s Emily Thomas on Saturday. It was Young’s third singles win of the tournament, all in three sets, and she and Emma Van Hee beat a Cincinnati duo 6-1 in the No. 1 doubles bracket. Also for the Mocs on Saturday, Bogdana Zaporozhets and Polina Goloputova won 6-2 twice at No. 2 doubles – over Cincinnati and Bowling Green tandems – Caroline Gibbens and Callie Billman won 7-5 at No. 3 doubles and freshman Billman edged Xavier’s Natalie Moyer 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (6).
Football
* Sewanee lost 24-21 to Centre in a Southern Athletic Association game Saturday in Danville, Kentucky. The Colonels (3-3, 1-3) won after Sewanee took the lead with two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Centre went ahead again with five minutes to go on a 25-yard pass play from John Walton to Christian Billiter. Sewanee quarterback Alex Darras from Chattanooga’s Notre Dame High School was 23-of-32 passing for 215 yards and a 20-yard touchdown throw to Micah Maes, and he ran for 3- and 1-yard scores. Cyrus McCullough caught 10 passes for 85 yards for the Tigers (0-6, 0-4). Alex Coffield was in on eight tackles for Sewanee, and J.T. Mitchell had two tackles for loss and a fumble recovery.
Volleyball
* Led by 20 kills apiece from sophomores Gylian Finch and Maia Rackel – a first for UTC since 2006 – the volleyball Mocs battled visiting Furman before falling 3-2 in Southern Conference play Saturday. The set scores were 25-27, 16-25, 33-31, 25-23, 15-11. Junior Maddie Halsey had career highs of 52 assists and 19 digs for UTC (5-14, 0-6), and Megan Kaufman had 20 digs, Brianna Anderson 15 digs and eight kills and Sarah Root 10 kills.