Bryan completes 26-0 AAC season
The Bryan College women’s basketball team completed an undefeated Appalachian Athletic Conference regular season with a 73-53 win Saturday at Columbia College. That made the Lady Lions, ranked 13th in NAIA Division II, 26-0 in the AAC and 28-1 overall with 27 consecutive victories. The last AAC women’s team to go through league play unscathed, Tennessee Wesleyan in 2010-11, was 14-0. Amber Levi scored 20 points for Bryan with six 3-point baskets Saturday, and Kenneisha Love and Tesa Johnson each scored 12. Love matched To’Nesha Allison with seven rebounds, and Deandra Luna and Tristan McClellan had eight and five assists.
› The Lee University women got to 20 wins for the season with an 84-46 Gulf South Conference rout of visiting Auburn-Montgomery, and the Lee men also won, 73-60. The Lady Flames are 20-5, 14-3 in the league; the Flames are 13-12, 10-7.
› Elijah Staley had 24 points and seven rebounds and Luke Luna scored 20 points in just nine minutes of court time as Dalton State College won 93-78 in a Southern States game at Brewton-Parker. Luna was 10-of-10 from the field. Sean Chislom had 13 points and nine rebounds for DSC (18-10, 13-7).
› West Division top seed Covenant College lost 75-62 to visiting Maryville, the West No. 2 seed, in their USA South men’s regular-season finale. Will Crumly had 24 points and seven rebounds and Mitchell Hollis and Bailey Spragg scored 14 points each — Spragg with six assists and Hollis with four 3s — for Covenant (17-8, 16-2), which will host Huntingdon at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the league tournament. Maryville is 18-7, 14-4.
GOLF
› University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golfer Kirsty Beckwith is tied for third at 1 over par after the first 27 holes of the 54-hole Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational at Greensboro, Georgia, and the Mocs share third with Vanderbilt at 14 over, four back of co-leaders Texas Tech and Mercer.
BASEBALL
› Lee’s baseball team rebounded from Friday’s GSC-opening loss to visiting Valdosta State with 2-1 and 5-1 victories over the Blazers on Saturday. Alex Butler and Michael Hendricks were the starting and winning pitchers for the Flames (5-5). Miguel Pimentel was 2-for-3 with a home run and Tyler Payne had two RBIs in game two.
› Lake Burris was 3-for-5 with a homer, a double and five RBIs as Bryan won 7-2 in the finale of its home baseball series against Indiana Southeast. Wade Weinburger added a two-run homer for the Lions (9-3), and pitchers Joseph Cuomo and Trevor Ferguson combined on a five-hitter with 12 strikeouts — nine by Cuomo in seven innings.
› Cleveland State won 10-0 in five innings and 5-1 over visiting Vincennes as Ethan Walls followed Ryan Inches’ two-hit, no-walk, eight-strikeout pitching by allowing three hits and no earned runs in his own five innings. The top three of the Cougars lineup — Parker Hill, Andrew Carpenter and Rhett Baldwin — were a combined 6-for-10 with three RBIs in the first game, when Jonathan Hickman drove in two runs. Hill was 3-for-4 with an RBI and Carpenter had two RBIs in game two.
› Covenant completed a series sweep of visiting Emory & Henry with 7-1 and 8-5 wins Saturday. Andrew Cline struck out seven in his six innings in the first game, when C.J. Edmond and Alex Gonzalez each was 2-for-3 with a homer — Edmond with three runs and Gonzalez matching John Mitchell with two RBIs. Mitchell was 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBIs for the Scots (5-1) in the finale, when Tommy Easley was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, Brooks DuBose 2-for-2 and Edmond and Donny Lewis each 2-for-4. Edmond scored twice.
TENNIS
› The UTC men’s tennis team won four singles matches to pull out a 4-3 win over Lipscomb on Friday night in Nashville. Lipscomb (3-4) has defeated Southern Conference members Samford and Furman this season, but the Mocs (4-4) prevailed with straight-sets wins by Niklas Gerdes, Tomas Rodriguez, Kerim Hyatt and Pablo Llebeili. Hyatt and Simon Bustamante won at No. 1 doubles. The Mocs are set to host North Dakota at 10 a.m. and Lee at 2:30 p.m. today at Baylor’s indoor courts.
SWIMMING & DIVING
› Sewanee added three event wins and a school record Friday in the Southern Athletic Association swimming and diving meet’s third day in Birmingham. Noel Whitlock added the women’s 3-meter diving title to her 1-meter triumph Wednesday, with teammate Paisley Simmons third, and Gabby Acker in the women’s 100 breaststroke and Lee Haber in the men’s 400 individual medley also finished first. Kate Mabry was second in the 100 backstroke after setting a Tigers record with a 57.88 in the prelims. Anthony Carbone was third in the men’s 200 freestyle.