The Lee University track and field teams both won Gulf South Conference championships Tuesday and Wednesday at the Birmingham CrossPlex, and the Flames' Christian Noble was named the men's most outstanding track performer and overall performer. Lee totaled 162 points to 159.5 for runner-up Alabama-Huntsville in the six-team men's standings and 207.5 to second-place UAH's 135 out of seven women's teams. Noble won the men's 1-mile run and paced a 1-2-3 Lee finish in the 5000-meter run and a 1-2-4-5 in the 3000, and Celine Ritter led a 1-2-3-4 women's mile run and a 1-2-4-5-6 in the 3000. Amber Littlejohn won the 400 and was second in the 200, Jordan Allison won the pentathlon, Lee won the women's 4x400 and distance medley relays and Charlee Boxall, Chloe Flora and Toni Moore were event runners-up. Other Lee men's winners were the DMR team, Jonah Mayes in the high jump and Daniel Surman in the heptathlon pole vault to go with a second in the main pole vault. Other Flames runners-up were Casey Guthery (twice to Noble), Gari Garmendia in pole vault and Stacen Cunningham (tw0), Charles Nnantah and Eli Brooks in heptathlon events.
Basketball
* The Bryan College women's basketball team rose two spots Wednesday to 14th in NAIA Division II and then clinched its third consecutive AAC regular-season championship with an 88-66 win over visiting Milligan. Tristan McClellan led the Lions (27-1, 23-0) with 17 points in their 55th straight win over AAC opponents. Deandra Luna and Kaitlynn Hennessee each scored 13, Luna with seven assists, and Destiny Kassner and Karli Combs scored 11 and 10. The Bryan men (13-15, 12-12) lost 85-76. Noah Mulaski scored 21 points with four-point baskets and Isaiah McClain had 16 points.
* Dalton State dropped from third to fifth Wednesday in the biweekly NAIA Division I men's poll after its 71-70 SSAC home loss last Saturday to Martin Methodist. That ended a 17-game winning streak for the Roadrunners (24-2, 12-2), who got 21 points and 12 rebounds from Dauson Womack and 20 points from Randy Bell.
* The Covenant women ended their season Wednesday night with a 73-56 USA South tournament loss at Maryville (19-7). Ruthie Moore scored 21 points and Hannah Monday had 11 rebounds with 10 points for Covenant (10-16). Margo Koby added eight rebounds, and Cosette Kirsch had five assists.
Golf
* Dalton State senior Ben Rebne from Heritage High School achieved his sixth college golf tournament triumph Tuesday with his 54-hole 212 (72-68-72) in the ChampionsGate Invitational at Orlando. The NAIA's sixth-ranked Roadrunners finished fifth with Matthew Cleary, Zach Womack and Sport Allmond also in the top 22 at 229, 230 and 231. DSC's women, also ranked No. 6, were third in their tourney there, led by Isabel Rijos sixth at 227 and Cameron Daniel (232), Hannah Gasaway, Katelyn Skiffen and Sydney Hermann also in the top 20.
Baseball/Softball
* While Lee's baseball Flames were losing 5-1 Wednesday at Carson-Newman, the Lee softball team hosted CNU and won 4-1 and 7-3. Lulu Vasquez pitched a six-hitter with 11 strikeouts for the Lady Flames (7-4) in the first game, when Taylor De Adder was 1-for-2 with three RBIs, Kayla Louie 2-for-3 with two runs and Lily Hatcher 2-for-2 with one run. Louie, Hatcher and De Adder each scored two and Bailey Church was 2-for-3 with four RBIs in support of game-two pitcher Shonna Penney (3-0). Ryan Beamish homered and Alan Smith was 3-for-4 for the baseball Flames (6-4), who used eight pitchers and got no earned runs from seven of them.
* Josh Johnston and Brian Meyer combined for seven hits, three doubles, six RBIs and four runs scored as Truett McConnell pounded host Bryan 18-1 in baseball. Wade Weinburger homered for Bryan (8-2).
Tennis
* Lee's Matina Ujdur was the GSC women's tennis freshman of the week for her 6-2 win with Lisa Kirr at No. 1 doubles and her 6-4, 6-2 victory at No. 4 singles in a 7-0 team win over Christian Brothers. Ujdur is 2-1 in singles and 3-0 in doubles but did not play Wednesday, when both Lee teams lost 4-3 to Tusculum. The Lady Flames (3-1) swept the doubles against 17th-ranked TU (3-1) and got singles wins from Micaela Belen Maiz and Dana Moreno. The Lee men (2-2) got singles and doubles wins from Jesus Garcia and Bruno Medeiros.
* Sewanee's Jordan Brewer and Hugh Graham were chosen the SAA men's doubles team of the week for their victories against Hanover and Piedmont an in an exhibition against Division II Carson-Newman. Sewanee's Morgan Downing was the women's singles player of the week for her two 6-0, 6-0 victories and her 6-3, 7-6 exhibition win against CNU.