The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga had two athletes recognized Tuesday as Southern Conference players of the week: sophomore Eboni Williams for women's basketball and senior Niklas Gerdes for men's tennis. Williams led UTC's triple-overtime win at East Tennessee State with a game-high 25 points - 13 in the extra periods - and a career-high 16 rebounds. She is second in the SoCon in rebounding in league games, with an average of 11.5. College Sports Madness also named her the SoCon player of the week. Her Mocs host UNC Greensboro on Thursday, and UTC is calling for a "White Out" with everyone urged to wear white shirts. Gerdes is a two-time league player of the week this season and is 7-0 at No. 1 singles. He had three straights-sets wins last weekend and went 2-0 in doubles with Tomas Rodriguez.
* Covenant College junior Will Crumly was named the USA South men's basketball player of the week and a member of the D3hoops.com team of the week. The preseason Division III All-American and reigning USAS player of the year averaged 22 points, 11.5 rebounds and two assists and 1.5 steals in two wins for the Scots, while shooting 68% from the field. The 6-foot-9 Crumly has seven double-doubles this seasons and has averaged 16.5 points and 8.8 rebounds. The Scots host Maryville tonight at 7:30.
* Stetson guard Kimia Carter from Brainerd High School repeated as the ASUN women's basketball freshman of the week - her fourth such honor this season - after scoring a team-high 14 points and then nine in two Hatters road wins. She averaged 35 minutes a game and raised her season scoring average to 8.9. She leads the conference with a .583 3-point percentage in ASUN play.
Baseball
* The Lee University baseball team got only five hits and lost 1-0 Tuesday at Young Harris, the 2019 Peach Belt Conference champion. The Mountain Lions (1-0) used seven pitchers and scored the game's lone run with doubles by Dahlton Cash and John Miller in the seventh inning. The Flames (3-1) had two runners on base with one out in the fourth inning and the bases loaded with two outs in the fifth but did not score. Lee starting pitcher Tyler Fairchild allowed just three hits and one walk in his five innings.
Track & Field
* Although his Tigers finished eighth out of 11 teams, Sewanee senior Ash Midyett set a school record (4:26.20) in winning the mile run at the Tiger Indoor Invitational this past weekend - a week after he broke the indoor 3000-meter record. Teammate Letherio Jones was fourth in the 400. For the seventh-place Sewanee women, Madison Sellers was second in the mile and Ella Cobbs was third in high jump. Covenant College was third in the women's division and fourth in the men's and got four first-place finishes and three program records. S.K. Lipperd won the women's mile - with teammates Brooke McDonald and Megan Heath also in the top five - and finished second in the 800, and Elysse Carrillo won the 400 with a Lady Scots-record 1:04.o9. Michelann Settle won the 3000 with Maggie Henry second and Ashleigh Baker fourth. Covenant's Micaiah Allison, Matt Seitz and Ben Mellott were first, third and fourth in the men's 3000 - Allison amending his school record to 9:17.07 - and Cooper Hayes beat his previous pole-vault standard with a fourth-place 3.50 meters. The Scots' Brendan Yeager was second to Midyett in the mile, Jonathan George was fifth in the 800 and Ben Tyson was sixth in the 400. Lipperd, Virginia Kay Roberts, McDonald and Carrillo were second in the women's 4x400 relay, and Tyson, George, Karl Ferda and Yeager were third in the men's 4x400. Lipperd learned recently that she made the national all-academic team for 2019 cross country. Both Covenant teams in the fall sport earned all-academic distinction for the seventh consecutive year under coach Katie Stanford, the Lady Scots with a 3.31 fall-semester team grade point average and the men with a 3.19.