Covenant men reach USAS final
With a 2-1 win Friday over Greensboro College, Covenant College will play for the USA South men’s soccer tournament championship tonight at 6 at Maryville College, against Maryville (13-3-1). Ethan Pettit scored from a Jesse Riggs assist and Riggs scored on a penalty kick for the Scots (14-51), and Paul Lemay made seven saves. The Covenant women lost 1-0 to West top seed Maryville at Greensboro, on an eighth-minute goal by Lexie Hill. Maryville (13-5) faces Piedmont in the final today; Covenant wound up 11-8-1.
› The Lee University women’s soccer team lost 1-0 to Montevallo in the Gulf South Conference quarterfinals Friday at Montgomery, Alabama, and the Lee men fell 3-2 to No. 1 seed Spring Hill (16-1), on two late, late goals by Donte Oliver. Samaan Williams and
Jared McWhorter scored for the Flames (9-7-3). Taylor Green made eight saves for the Lady Flames (13-6-1); Romee Contreras scored early in the second half for Montevallo (10-6-3).
› Harry Baggaley scored twice in the first five minutes as Tennessee Wesleyan defeated Columbia International 3-1 in an Appalachian Athletic Conference men’s quarterfinal Friday in Athens. The Wesleyan women also won 3-1, against Brenau, but the Bryan College women lost 5-2 at Reinhardt before the Bryan men won 3-1 at home over Union College. The semifinals are Tuesday. Gabriel Andracle had a second-half goal and Yuri Parisotto had two assists for TWU’s Bulldogs (13-5-1), whose assist at 2:19 was by Tom Lake. The Lady Bulldogs (10-5-1) got goals by Jessica Young at 0:56 and by Chloe Rhodes from a
Dayna Randall assist at 2:28 and scored again at 53:30. In a flurry of six goals in less than 16 minutes, Makena Giles and Mya Patel scored equalizers for the Bryan women (7-101), but Adrien Merilles then scored twice for Reinhardt (12-6) and Kaitlyn Lauk added her second goal of the match. Brad Spooner, Artur Dombrowski and Charlie Clarke scored for Bryan’s Lions (11-5-2), and Jonathan Ricketts had two assists.
VOLLEYBALL
› The UTC volleyball team totaled 21 kills — the program’s lowest total in a match in eight years — in a 3-0 Southern Conference loss (25-17, 25-11, 25-20) Friday at Mercer.
Jaquelyn Langhaim had 12 assists, Brenna
Everingham 10 digs and Dani Szczepanski three aces for the Mocs (8-18, 4-9); Mikaela
Gauthreaux led them in kills with six.
› Destiny Stewart had 22 kills and 24 digs and Constance Connolly had 50 assists, 23 digs and three aces as fourth-seeded Sewanee outlasted fifth seed Rhodes 3-2 (25-16, 17-25, 27-29, 25-21, 21-191) in the Southern Athletic Association tournament quarterfinals Friday at Berry College. Connolly, the SAA leader in assists with 938, and Stewart made the All-SAA first team, as did freshman Ellie Pedersen, the league newcomer of the year. Pedersen did not play Friday, when Sydney White had 10 kills and 19 digs, Peyton Parent 16 digs and four aces and Mason Gardella eight kills for the Tigers (20-7).
TENNIS
› UTC went 4-0 Friday in its women’s tennis fall invitational. Lily Holmes won 6-2, 6-4 against Jacksonville State’s Shauna Casey, and the duos of Delaney Edwards with Emma Van Hee, Bogdana Zaporzhets with Annie Tawater and Caroline Hall with Polino Goloputova beat Western Kentucky players.
BASKETBALL
› The Bryan men’s basketball team is 2-2 after Friday’s 75-60 loss at Cumberlands. Austin Douglas scored 14 points and E.J. Bush had 12 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots for Bryan. Isaiah McClain added 10 points.
FIELD HOCKEY
› Sewanee ended its field hockey season with a 10-6 record with a 2-1 loss to sixth seed Transylvania in an SAA tournament quarterfinal Friday at Conway, Arkansas. Third-seeded Sewanee had won both regular-season meetings 1-0, and Violet Hoagland gave the Tigers that lead again, but Lily Kramer tied it for Transy and delivered the assist for Tori Coleman’s winner at 70:00. The Tigers led 17-6 in shots and 10-3 on on-goal attempts.