Area Sports Notes: Baylor's Trey Freeman second in 500 free in Speedo Winter Juniors

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Trey Freeman of the Baylor Swim Club finished second to Drew Kibler of the Carmel (Ind.) Swim Club in the 500-yard freestyle Thursday at USA Swimming's Speedo Winter Championships at the University of Tennessee's Allan Jones Aquatic Center. Freeman finished in 4:15.06 compared to the 4:14.42 for Kirby, who later won the 50 free with Freeman 13th. The Baylor club's Piotr Kurleto was 24th in the 200 individual medley, and Jack Kirby, Kurleto, Zach Althoff and Freeman were sixth in the 4x100 medley relay after the same four were third behind Mason, Ohio, and Carmel in both the 4x50 medley and 4x200 freestyle relays - out of 53 and 33 teams - as the meet opened Wednesday evening. Baylor SC's Ellie Waldrep, Jewel Gordon, Dallas Woods and Addison Smith were 10th out of 43 teams in the girls' 4x50 medley, and Smith, Jamee Mitchum, Woods and Gordon were 22nd of 39 in the 200 free relay.

Soccer

» Lee University seniors Summer Lanter and McKenzie Bricker were named to CoSIDA Academic All-America teams for NCAA Division II women's soccer. Lanter, a nursing major with a 3.89 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, made the second team. She already was the Gulf South Conference and USC South Region player of the year and an All-American. Bricker made the CoSIDA third team after leading the defense for the ninth-ranked Lady Flames. She's an accounting major with a 3.95 GPA.

» Tennessee Wesleyan's late-season surge got the Athens school into a tie for 11th in the NAIA women's soccer final rankings for 2017. The Lady Bulldogs previously were unranked but reached the national quarterfinals. Bryan's Lady Lions were seventh in "others receiving votes" beyond the Top 25. In the men's poll, Dalton State and Bryan wound up third and 10th in the "others" listing.

Basketball

» The Cleveland State women's basketball team improved to 7-4 for the season with a 69-64 win Tuesday evening at Snead State. The Lady Cougars' Ebony Kelley was the TCCAA player of the week after scoring 21 points twice with 18 and eight rebounds in their two league wins last weekend. She was 16-of-24 from the field and 10-of-13 on free throws in those wins and went into the Snead game averaging 15.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the season. Snead had swept Chattanooga State on Tuesday, winning a women's contest (58-52) for the first time in 10 games and prevailing 84-73 in the men's game for a sixth straight victory after an 0-4 start.

Wrestling

» The Southern Conference announced Thursday that it will add Presbyterian College as an associate league member for wrestling in the 2019-20 season. Presbyterian, which will begin its program with a limited schedule next year, will replace associate member Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, which is leaving after this season. "The Southern Conference has consistently addressed wrestling membership in a way to benefit the health of the sport, and we think the addition of Presbyterian fits with that philosophy," commissioner John Iamarino said in a league release. "It gives a new program a conference home that makes sense geographically and restores our membership in 2019-20 to eight programs for purposes of scheduling and the conference championship."

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