Area sports notes: John Gilpin, Kristen Curtis win Raccoon Mountain 10k

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Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga runner John Gilpin won the Raccoon Mountain 10k on Saturday in 34 minutes, 39 seconds, and Kristen Curtis was the women's winner and fifth overall in 41:37. Ryan McGinnis (37:58), Jeremy Miller (39:35) and Tripp McCallie (40:28) were second through fourth, and Haley Moody (42:00) was sixth as the female runner-up. Miller and Jennie Gentry were the masters winners, eighth-place Mayes Starke and Barbara Ensign the grand masters honorees and John Crawley and Ivy Knight the senior grand masters victors. Brandon Humphrys and Kristen Bonsor were the 5k winners in 18:51 and 20:58, Bonsor third overall behind James Mason (19:56), and Anna Lunsford (23:30) was the second female and sixth overall.

* With a 14th-place individual finish from Christian Noble in the men's 8k and a 17th and school-record-shattering 17:14.2 from Chloe Flora in the 5k, Lee University finished 15th out of 26 teams in the women's gold race and 18th out 29 in the men's gold event Saturday at the NCAA Division I-dominated Louisville Cross Country Classic. UTC was 18th in the women's race, 24th in the men's. The Mocs' Emily Poole was 43rd individually; Lee's Amy Carpenter was 66th.

* First-place finishers Lilly Smith and Caleb Aikens led Covenant College to the team championships of the Maryville Invitational. Covenant's Nate Collins and Matthew Tueller were second and third in the men's race, with four teammates eighth through 11th. The Lady Scots' Hannah Samuels, S.K. Lipperd, Alexandra May and Michelann Settle were fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth.

Soccer

* The Lee University men's team completed a Gulf South Conference doubleheader sweep Friday night with a 3-0 victory at Delta State. After the Lady Flames won 1-0 late in the second overtime period, the Flames' Alfie Coldron, Palle Jespersen and Samaan Williams scored unassisted in the first 10:19 of the men's game. Lee (6-2-1, 4-0) had a 16-4 margin in shots.

* The Sewanee women won 1-0, but the men lost 3-2 in their Southern Athletic Association soccer games Saturday at Oglethorpe in Atlanta. Kyle Johnston netted a penalty kick and the Stormy Petrels (4-2, 2-0) contributed an own goal for the male Tigers (4-5, 0-2), who got nine saves from James Murray. For the female Tigers (3-7-2, 1-1), Kiera Giacomini followed up her own shot for the game's only goal in the 21st minute, and Hanna Judycki got the shutout.

* Addy Cronan scored two goals and Rachel Lemay made 13 saves in the Covenant women's 3-1 defeat of Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lizzy Hightower assisted on Cronan's second goal, and Kailey Burrell netted the second-half goal for the Lady Scots (4-5-1). The Covenant men (7-3-1, 4-1-1) won 1-0 in their USA South match at Pfeiffer on Jesse Riggs' first-half penalty kick.

* The Bryan men won 1-0, but the Lady Lions lost 4-0 in an Appalachian Athletic Conference doubleheader at Truett McConnell. Brad Spooner scored from Artur Dombrowski's assist with 11 minutes left in regulation time for the second-place Lions (5-3-2, 3-1-1). The first-place Truett McConnell women improved to 8-1, 6-0 in the AAC, with goals from four players and two assists from Sydney Ziglar. They outshot Bryan (4-7, 3-3) 21-8; the Lady Lions' Caragan Treola had seven saves.

* Second-half goals by Julia Ruiz Vargas and Dayna Randall from passes by Emiley Saddler and Savannah Mayo lifted the Tennessee Wesleyan University women to a 2-1 AAC victory over the visiting Columbia Koalas. Randall's tiebreaker came with 5:40 to go in the second half. TWU (2-5-1, 2-2-1) led 19-8 in shots, 11-3 in shots on goal and 5-1 in corner kicks. Columbia is 4-3, 3-2.

* Harry Baggaley scored three goals in Tennessee Wesleyan's 4-0 AAC win Friday at Union College. Gabriel Gonzalez also scored, and George Green had an assist for the Bulldogs (7-3, 3-1); Nick Croucher had four saves.

* Dalton State College lost 8-0 to the William Carey women and 5-3 to the NAIA's top-ranked William Carey men in their Southern States Athletic Conference games Saturday in Dalton, Georgia. Caitlyn White scored the last three goals, and Kelly Stubbington had a goal and two assists for the No. 2-ranked Lady Crusaders (9-1, 2-0), who outshot DSC (6-3-1, 0-2) 16-1 with a 15-1 margin in on-goal attempts. In the men's game, Jose Villalobos gave the Roadrunners (4-4-1, 0-1) an early lead with an assist by Tyler Hudson, but William Carey (9-0, 2-0) scored the next four goals. Sebastian Guzman and Kevin Villatoro assisted each other on second-half goals for DSC, which had an 11-3 advantage in corner kicks but trailed 14-7 in shots on goal.

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