Lanter leads Lee to 5-1 win

The Gulf South player of the year, Summer Lanter, scored three goals in leading Lee University to a 5-1 win Friday night against Valdosta State in the conforence tournament women’s soccer semifinals in Montgomery, Ala.

The Lady Flames (15-4) play for the championship Sunday afternoon.

Lanter, a former Soddy-Daisy High School standout, scored 13:33 into the match from a pass by Mia Hollingsworth. Kelsey Yoder and Riley Engels made it 3-0 by early in the second half on assists by Anna Leslie, and Lanter scored again in the 66th and 71st minutes. Lee outshot VSU (10-6-3) 21-9, with a 9-2 edge in shots on goal.

› In USA South semifinals, the Covenant College women lost 1-0 to Methodist at Maryville, Tenn., and the Covenant men fell 3-0 to East top seed North Carolina Wesleyan at Rocky Mount.

Methodist’s score came in the 49th minute, and the Monarchs (8-10) outshot the Lady Scots (11-7-1) 20-3 with 11 shots on goal. Covenant got nine saves from all-conference keeper Rachel Lemay.

N.C. Wesleyan (14-5) scored twice in the first half and had a 15-6 shots margin against the Scots (9-12-1), who failed to get an attempt on goal. Jonathan Crossman had five saves in defeat.

Maryville College just missed being in both finals today, the women losing in overtime at home. Both Maryville teams still are directed by Pepe Fernandez, a former Tennessee Wesleyan star who coached at Hixson and Notre Dame high schools.

› In Appalachian Athletic Conference quarterfinals, the No. 1- and 2-seeded Bryan and Tennessee Wesleyan women both won 3-0 at home — over Bluefield and Point, respectively — and the second-seeded Bryan men beat visiting Milligan 3-1. TWU’s men had to travel and lost 1-0 at Union (Ky.).

The winners all will host semifinals Tuesday.

Ruth Rosales, Makena Giles and Sara Farlett scored early-second-half goals for Bryan’s Lady Lions (12-5), and Rosales, Ana Ramirez, Yarahi Hernandez and Mary Mai Berchtold were credited with assists. They outshot Bluefield 17-4 and had a 12-0 advantage in corner kicks.

The Wesleyan women (11-4-2) got their first goal against Point at 63:01, from Dayna Randall on a Hannah Dearing assist. Randall provided an assist at 82:44 for Chloe Rootes, who in turn assisted Livia Walker’s goal at 86:30. They had a 23-1 shots margin.

The TWU men ended the season 10-6-1.

Bryan’s Lions rose to 14-5 with two second-half goals by Charlie Clarke after one by Jonathan Ricketts, who also had an assist. Other assists were by Dino Jones, Joao Paulo Panheiro and Daniel Vonthin. Bryan outshot the Buffaloes 30-3, 9-2 on goal.

› In a Southern Athletic Association semifinal at Danville, Ky., Sewanee lost 4-0 to Centre, the top-seeded host. That left the Tigers 6-9-2 for the season.

Sewanee wins 3-1

With three unassisted goals from Ceara Caffrey, fourth-seeded Sewanee won 3-1 over fifth-seeded Concordia Wisconsin in the SAA field hockey tournament Friday in Memphis and plays top-seeded host Rhodes in a semifinal today.

Caffrey took 11 shots in the match and put eight of them on goal for the Tigers (8-7). Her first goal came 23:14 into the contest on a rebound of her own shot. She scored again at 52:12 and 61:38.

Concordia’s Kennedy Boyer made 14 saves while Sewanee’s Katya Waters faced only five shots on goal and stopped four of them.