Local 7.5 combo team wins state
Local tennis teams captained by David Snyder have won Tennessee championships before — eight in the last four years alone — but his 7.5 combo doubles guys did so in particularly remarkable fashion last weekend in Knoxville. Many of the matches were close, but the Chattanooga team won 16 of the 18 and all six team contests, and a lot of them were in first-time combinations, some even without the duos having practiced together. Two men who played four matches had different partners for each. “It could have backfired,” Snyder said of his mixing and matching of styles, “but it worked out great and everyone played well.” Other players were David Hilley, Ken Ellinger, Dan Barry, Tony Bartley, Kirk Kelly, Terry Bartley, Tom McCullough, Bob Lype, Randy Johnston, Peter Nowotarski and Michael Short.
SOCCER
› Covenant College junior Jesse Riggs
was a first-team All-USA South men’s soccer player announced Wednesday, and five teammates were second- and third-team selections. Senior defender Christopher Kitchen and junior goalkeeper Paul Lemay
made the all-conference second team, and senior Carl Simakoff, junior Josh Brower and sophomore Parker Owen made the third team from the 13-5-1 Scots, who play Greensboro in the USAS tournament semifinals Friday at Maryville College. Senior Jonathan Barrett was Covenant’s representative on the all-sportsmanship team. Riggs leads the balanced Scots with seven goals this season, while Owen has six and Brower and Simakoff five each, Brower with six assists. Lemay has six shutouts with 67 saves and a 0.99 goals-against average.
VOLLEYBALL
› The Bryan College volleyball team lost 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-16) on Tuesday at Martin Methodist and ends its regular season with an Appalachian Athletic Conference home match tonight at 6:30 against Montreat. Tuesday for the Lady Lions (10-19), Rheagan Keen had 22 digs, Rebecca Camacho and Mariah Dunlop each had seven kills and Veronica Salas had 12 assists and 13 digs. Camacho’s hitting percentage was .467.
GOLF
› Tennessee Wesleyan’s Ryann McCuistion and Jordann Handy finished first at 149 and fourth at 154 with Bryan’s Krista Reinhardt second at 151 in Reinhardt University’s women’s golf invitational Monday and Tuesday at Waleska, Georgia. Wesleyan was the team champion with a 626. Bryan was fifth at 675 with Taylor Williams sixth at 156 and Daniella Banda 15th at 164. TWU’s Kelsey Cassada tied for ninth at 160 with Megan Schauer tied for 13th at 163, Saylem Powell 16th at 167 and Mason Jewell 19th at 173.