Paige Simons' goal with 11 seconds left in the second overtime period lifted the Covenant College women's soccer team to a 3-2 win Monday night at Oglethorpe in Atlanta. Addy Cronan had the first two goals for the Lady Scots (3-4-1), who outshot the Stormy Petrels (3-6) 30-10 in the nonconference contest and benefited from a missed penalty kick in the first overtime. Kyra Duble had an assist.
* Bryan College junior Jonathan Ricketts from Dayton was selected the Appalachian Athletic Conference men's soccer offensive player of the week for his four goals and two assists in a 2-0 week for the Lions. He has scored in four straight matches, totaling seven goals in that span.
Auto Racing
* Mitchell Dyer of Wartburg, Tennessee, won the Super Pro drag-racing class and $2,500 Saturday night at Brainerd Motorsports Park with a 5.23-second run on a 5.22 dial in his Chevrolet-powered 1978 Pontiac Firebird. Steve Dowdy from Ringgold was second out of 66 entries and earned $1,000 with his recently purchased 1965 Chevy Nova. Harrison's Ray Zumstein won the Foot Brake class with a 6.89 run on a 6.87 dial in his 1965 Dodge Dart, and Jesse Long from Woodstock, Georgia, was second. Long also was second to Tea Goins of Dayton out of 25 entries in Junior Dragster.
Volleyball
* Chattanooga State's first-year volleyball team rose to 7-6 with a 3-0 win (25-20, 25-7, 25-13) Monday at Hiwassee. Kayla Wimpee and Sidney Killingsworth had eight kills apiece and Emily Redden and Dakota Rawiszer had 12 and 11 assists for the Lady Tigers, who won for the seventh time in nine matches. Sakari Pack added seven kills and four blocks, and Brieana Hemphill had five kills with five blocks.
* Sewanee middle blocker Ellie Pedersen is the Southern Athletic Association volleyball player of the week after totaling 37 kills with a .455 attack percentage in the Tigers' last three matches. She had 15 kills on 21 attacks in a 3-1 defeat of Centre and 11 kills in each of the two weekend matches.
Field Hockey
* Sewanee junior Ceara Caffrey is the SAA field hockey offensive player of the week for the second time this season after scoring six goals in two weekend wins, including the overtime winner against Bridgewater. Her league-leading 15 goals are seven shy of the SAA season record, and she leads NCAA Division III with 2.14 goals per game.
Running
* Covenant's Lilly Smith is the USA South's women's cross country runner of the week for the third time this season, and freshman S.K. Lipperd likewise is the women's rookie of the week for the third time. Covenant freshman Nate Collins is the men's rookie of the week. All three earned their honors at Berea's Sept. 15 meet, where Smith and Lipperd were first and third in the Lady Scots' team win and Collins was eighth out of 104 runners in the 8k.
* Cleveland State sophomore Madison Guider finished second out of 67 women's runners and the Cougars' Luis Perez was fourth out of 62 in the men's 8k this past Saturday at the Freed Speed Open at Henderson, Tennessee. The Cougars' Alec Bloomer was 17th, and KiAna Queener was 15th as the Lady Cougars wound up third out of nine teams.
Golf
* The Sewanee men's golf team, ranked 18th in Division III, finished eighth out of 20 teams with a 54-hole 877 in the Rhodes College Fall Classic at Tunica (Mississippi) National. Third-ranked Huntingdon won with an 842. Sewanee's Woodson Smith played as an individual and tied for 10th at 212, and the Tigers' Basil Boyd and Nick Powell shot 215 and 218 to tie for 17th and 30th.
* Led by medalists Joe Carter (70) and Kyndall Shamblin (71), McCallie and the Baylor girls won the TSSAA Division II East/Middle tournament Monday at Bear Trace at Tims Ford. Carter teammates Jake Levine, Jake Allstun and Jesse Felker shot 71, 72 and 73. The Baylor boys were fourth and also qualified for next week's state tournament at Manchester.