Dalton golf duo helps Georgia win
Dalton’s Vance Embry and David Noll Jr. helped Team Georgia win the 2017 Southeastern Challenge Match golf event Saturday and Sunday at The Bear’s Club in Jupiter, Fla. Georgia’s group of amateurs totaled 23 points to 21 1/2 for Florida and 18 1/2 for Alabama. Noll and Embry beat duos from both other states together in foursomes Saturday, and Embry was a double singles winner Sunday. It was Georgia’s seventh Southeastern Challenge win but first since 2008.
› The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team is sixth out of 17 teams at 304 after Sunday’s opening round of the Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament at Kiawah Island, S.C. Ole Miss leads at 290. The Mocs’ Megan Woods is tied for 15th individually at 75, Holly Morgan and
Cristina Perez are tied for 23rd at 76 and Maddy McDaniel and Monica San Juan share 33rd at 77.
SOCCER
› Jordan Mueller in effect scored from her own pass in leading the UTC soccer team to a 1-0 home win Sunday against Wofford. Seeded sixth for the 10-team Southern Conference women’s tournament, the Mocs (5-9-4, 3-4-2) have a first-round bye and will play Saturday at 7 p.m. at No. 3 seed UNC Greensboro. Mueller scored in the 82nd minute when she flicked the ball downfield and raced to get it back between a defender and the goalkeeper and put it in the empty net.
› The Lee University women’s soccer team won 1-0 in a Gulf South Conference home doubleheader Sunday against West Alabama, but the Lee men lost 2-1 in overtime after taking the game’s first lead in the 82nd minute. Owen Keck headed home a cross from Craig Quinn for the Flames (5-64, 4-5-2), who will need help to make the six-team GSC tournament field. Jack Shield scored at 86:38 and Cole Webster at 109:24 for 20th-ranked UWA (13-2, 9-1). Isabelle Berthoud scored for the 17th-ranked Lady Flames (12-4, 11-2) at 41:04. They outshot the visitors 29-3.
› The Dalton State soccer teams blasted visiting Brewton-Parker in a Southern States doubleheader Saturday, 12-1 in the women’s game and 6-1 in the men’s. Keyle Snyder contributed three goals and an assist, Rosie Lindo two goals and two assists, Serena Delgado a goal and two assists and Alyssa Bilbrey two assists for the Lady Roadrunners (7-6-1, 1-5). Other goals came from Adriana Romera, Alondra Salaises, Rachel Hardin, Akeila Raines, Kaela Ebanks and Alejandra Salaises. For the DSC men (11-3, 4-2), Santiago Moore had three goals and an assist, Daniel Valenciano had the first three assists and Ramiro Guerrero, Jorge Hurtado and Daniel Okonkwo also scored.
VOLLEYBALL
› Sewanee lost 3-0 at Berry in a Southern Athletic Association volleyball match Sunday but beat Agnes Scott 3-0 in nonconference play. Destiny Stewart had 16 kills and 12 digs in the 25-13, 25-19, 25-22 win for the Tigers (12-12. 5-9), when Olivia Nichols had 10 kills, Constance Connolly 23 assists, Peyton Parent 21 digs and four aces and Anna Wilson 14 assists. In the 25-18, 25-16, 25-9 loss to Berry (22-4, 14-0), Parent had 16 digs, Stewart made seven kills and Connolly and Wilson totaled 20 assists.
› Anna Schorle had 12 kills and Morgen Simmons and Kayleigh Goff had 27 and 25 digs as the Georgia Northwestern volleyball team edged Andrew College 3-2 (25-23, 14-25, 16-25, 25-17, 15-4) on Saturday in Rossville. That was after a 3-0 (25-16, 25-10, 25-11) loss to Pensacola Christian in which Simmons had 18 digs for the Lady Bobcats (2-16). Also against Andrew, Jesse Owens and Shanna Burk added 17 and 14 digs, Tori Hall had eight kills and 10 digs and Goff had seven kills.
FIELD HOCKEY
› Rhodes won 2-0 at Sewanee in their SAA field hockey showdown Sunday, lifting the Lynx to 10-4, 5-0 in the league, and dropping the Tigers to 7-5, 3-1. Sewanee’s Katya Waters made 12 saves.
TENNIS
› UTC’s Niklas Gerdes lost 6-7 (6), 7-6 (7), 1-0 (4) to Middle Tennessee State all-conference player Tom Moonen in a consolation singles semifinal Sunday at the ITA Ohio Valley Regionals in Knoxville.