Lee posts 801st win for coach Andrea Hudson

Silvia Sartori, right, makes a big hit for Lee University in its 3-1 Gulf South Conference volleyball victory Saturday against Mississippi College. She had 16 kills in the match.
Silvia Sartori, right, makes a big hit for Lee University in its 3-1 Gulf South Conference volleyball victory Saturday against Mississippi College. She had 16 kills in the match.

The Lee University volleyball team started on coach Andrea Hudson's second group of 800 wins Saturday with a 3-0 Gulf South Conference home defeat of Mississippi College. The set scores were 25-13, 25-10, 25-16.

Silvia Sartori had 14 kills and 11 digs, Alex Reuter had 10 kills, Hanna Matthews and Kristi Farley had 19 and 15 assists and MaKayla Beebe had 15 digs for Lee (10-3, 4-2). Brooke Wilsman served three aces.

-At Greenville, S.C., Furman won 3-0 (25-15, 25-19, 25-22) over the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in a Southern Conference match Saturday night. Miranda Elpers led UTC (9-9, 2-2) in kills with 13, while Lauren Greenspoon had 28 assists and Megan Kaufman had 11 digs. Furman is 9-7, 3-0 in the SoCon.

-At Lookout Mountain, Ga., Covenant College won two USA South matches by 3-0 scores. Schuyler Moore had 34 assists and Ginny Moore and Chloe Storm had 12 and 10 kills for the Lady Scots (10-7, 5-0) in a 25-18, 25-10, 25-19 defeat of Huntingdon, and Emily Moore, Hannah Stewart and Jessica Seehorn made 13, 12 and 11 digs. In a 25-20, 25-12, 25-10 victory over Agnes Scott, Schuyler Moore had nine aces with 30 assists, Hannah Harris registered eight kills and Stewart had 14 digs and four aces.

-At Sewanee, Tenn., Berry College beat Sewanee 3-0 (29-27, 25-14, 25-14) in a Southern Athletic Association match and is now 7-0 in the league, 12-3 overall. For the Tigers (7-8, 1-5), Destiny Stewart had a match-high 13 kills, Claire Crowe and Constance Connolly had 13 and 11 assists and Peyton Parent had 14 digs.

-At West Point, Ga., Point University freshman Te'a Owens from Ridgeland High School had eight kills in a 3-2 (22-25, 22-25, 25-18, 26-24, 15-12) Appalachian Athletic Conference win over St. Andrews. Owens had notched a match-high 17 kills with six aces and seven digs in Thursday's 3-1 win at Talladega College. Point is 12-5, 7-2 in the AAC.

UTC duo in tennis final

The UTC women's tennis team followed its nine wins Friday in the Georgia Southern Invitational with 10 victories at various levels Saturday, and the Mocs' Caroline Hall and Bogdana Zaporozhets will play in the doubles final today.

Hall, a junior, and her freshman partner rallied from 5-2 down to win 7-5 over a Georgia State duo. UTC's Sydney Patton and Emma van Hee pulled out a 7-6 (8) backdraw win, and Patton and Delaney Edwards each got two Blue Singles backdraw victories while Tamri Chalaganidze and Hall each won and lost. Zaporozhets and van Hee each had a win and a loss in White Singles.

Sewanee falls 2-0

The Sewanee field hockey team fell to 4-2 with a 2-0 loss Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan. The goals came 77 seconds apart late in the first half.

Katya Waters made nine saves in defeat.

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