Chattanooga State's first-year volleyball team is 1-0 in TCCAA matches after winning 3-1 Wednesday evening at Cleveland State, a second-year program. The set scores were 27-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21, and Sidney Killingsworth and Kaylee Wimpee had 16 kills each plus nine and four blocks while Sakari Pack and Cayla Jacob added nine and seven kills with seven blocks apiece for the Lady Tigers, who are 6-5 overall with four wins in a row and six in their last seven matches. Emily Redden had 24 assists and Dakota Rawiszer had 16 plus three aces in the victory. The Lady Cougars are 6-8.
* Covenant College rallied to win 3-2 in its USA South volleyball opener Wednesday at Maryville, by the set scores of 25-17, 22-25, 18-25, 25-16, 15-10. Sophie Puertas had 35 assists, 14 digs and three aces, Hannah Stewart had 28 digs and Hannah Harris and Alexa Spurling had 12 and nine kills for Covenant (3-8), while Emily Moore and Sara Delk added 11 and 10 digs.
* Tennessee Wesleyan improved to 3-0 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference and 7-9 overall with a 3-0 home win (25-23, 25-18, 25-18) Tuesday over Truett McConnell. Kalyse Garrett had 26 assists in the win, while Avery Hilliard and Allana Knowles registered seven kills apiece and Sydney Ritten and Marjorie Smith added six each in the balanced attack. Sovanna Ramirez had 12 digs.
Soccer
* Anthony Buzzeo scored twice and Ethan Pettit had the first goal and two assists as Covenant won 6-2 in USA South men's soccer Wednesday at Berea. Austin Berry had a goal and an assist and Keegan Weekley and Jake Major also scored for the Scots (6-2, 3-0), who outshot their hosts 17-7. Carl Simakoff assisted on the final goal.
Running
* Lee University's Chloe Flora and Christian Noble were the Gulf South Conference cross country runners of the week for their high finishes in the Montevallo Falcon Classic last Saturday. Flora, a junior transfer from the University of Dayton who was competing in her first meet for Lee, won the 195-runner 5-kilometer race by 23 seconds as the Lady Flames finished second to Mississippi State. The Lee men were second to Florida A&M in the 8k with Noble in third place, the only non-FAMU runner in the top six. The Flames moved up four places to No. 17 in the new U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Assocation poll, and the Lady Flames rose one spot to 13th. Both Lee teams are the highest ranked from the South Region.
Baseball
* The Lee University baseball team is scheduled to play fall intrasquad games this Friday and Saturday as well as five times in the last half of October, but the highlight of the Flames' scrimmage season is a Sept. 29 contest at 2018 NCAA Division I power Tennessee Tech. "We are excited about the opportunity to play Tennessee Tech this fall. They were one game away from the College World Series and will be a great way to test our team right away and see where we stand," Lee coach Mark Brew said in a school release.
Golf
* The NAIA's No. 2-ranked Dalton State women's golfers finished third behind third-ranked host Keiser and No. 1 SCAD Savannah in the Keiser Cup tournament that ended Tuesday on the PGA National course at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Keiser shot 900 for the 54 holes, SCAD 923 and DSC 927. Lady Roadrunners freshman Cameron Daniel was sixth individually with Isabel Rijos eighth and Katie Dalton 13th. Playing apart from the team, Hannah Gasaway also made the top 15.
* The Boyd-Buchanan golf teams earned trips to the TSSAA Division II-A state tournament in the East Region event Wednesday at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay, the Lady Bucs as the region champs and the Buccaneers as runners-up to Christian Academy of Knoxville. Medalist Lydia Campbell (78) and Zacori Hill will be representing BBS for the fifth year in a row. Jonathan Xoinis of Chattanooga Christian and Isha Desai of the Collegedale Academy girls also advanced to the state Oct. 1-2 at WillowBrook in Manchester.