The Lee University track and field teams both won Gulf South Conference championships Tuesday and Wednesday at the Birmingham CrossPlex, and the Flames’ Christian Noble was named the men’s most outstanding track performer and overall performer. Lee totaled 162 points to 159.5 for runner-up Alabama-Huntsville in the six-team men’s standings and 207.5 to second-place UAH’s 135 out of seven women’s teams. Noble won the men’s 1-mile run and paced a 1-2-3 Lee finish in the 5000-meter run and a 1-2-4-5 in the 3000, and Celine Ritter led a 1-2-3-4 women’s mile run and a 1-2-4-5-6 in the 3000. Amber Littlejohn won the 400 and was second in the 200, Jordan Allison won the pentathlon, Lee won the women’s 4×400 and distance medley relays and Charlee Boxall, Chloe Flora and Toni Moore were event runners-up. Other Lee men’s winners were the DMR team, Jonah Mayes in the high jump and Daniel Surman in the heptathlon pole vault to go with a second in the main pole vault. Other Flames runners-up were Casey Guthery (twice to Noble), Gari Garmendia in pole vault and Stacen Cunningham (tw0), Charles Nnantah and Eli Brooks in heptathlon events.
Basketball
* The Bryan College women’s basketball team rose two spots Wednesday to 14th in NAIA Division II and then clinched its third consecutive AAC regular-season championship with an 88-66 win over visiting Milligan. Tristan McClellan led the Lions (27-1, 23-0) with 17 points in their 55th straight win over AAC opponents. Deandra Luna and Kaitlynn Hennessee each scored 13, Luna with seven assists, and Destiny Kassner and Karli Combs scored 11 and 10. The Bryan men (13-15, 12-12) lost 85-76. Noah Mulaski scored 21 points with four-point baskets and Isaiah McClain had 16 points.
* Dalton State dropped from third to fifth Wednesday in the biweekly NAIA Division I men’s poll after its 71-70 SSAC home loss last Saturday to Martin Methodist. That ended a 17-game winning streak for the Roadrunners (24-2, 12-2), who got 21 points and 12 rebounds from Dauson Womack and 20 points from Randy Bell.
* The Covenant women ended their season Wednesday night with a 73-56 USA South tournament loss at Maryville (19-7). Ruthie Moore scored 21 points and Hannah Monday had 11 rebounds with 10 points for Covenant (10-16). Margo Koby added eight rebounds, and Cosette Kirsch had five assists.