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Area sports notes: Bryan College fishing duo excels on Lake Guntersville

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Area sports notes: Bryan College fishing duo excels on Lake Guntersville

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The Bryan College fishing program continued an impressive streak with its 11th straight tournament with at least one team of Lions finishing in the top 10, this time thanks to a seventh-place showing for seniors Tyler Price and Ethan Shaw on Friday in an FLW Southeastern Division college tournament out of Lake Guntersville in Alabama. The duo’s limit of five bass weighed in at 15 pounds, 15 ounces, with Nathaniel Lear and Adam Puckett of Murray State winning at 18-1 in a field of 148 two-angler teams. Bryan had four other teams in the top third of the standings: Griffen Hopkins and Rob Lindsey (21st), Conner DiMauro and Cole Sands (23rd), Bailey Fain and Preston Kendrick (26th), and Andrew Fisher and Bennett Kudder (42nd). Bryan’s top-10 streak dates to June 2019.

 

Soccer

* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s soccer team will host Sun Belt Conference member Georgia State at 6 p.m. Sunday at the UTC Sports Complex, the lone match this semester for the Mocs of the Southern Conference, which has postponed league competition for fall sports until the spring semester due to coronavirus concerns. For the same reason, fans will not be permitted to attend the match, but it will be streamed live, with information and links posted later at GoMocs.com. Coach Gavin McKinney and senior forward Chloe Arnold will preview the match during the “Mocs on the Mic” podcast that will be available Thursday at GoMocs.com.

* The Chattanooga Football Club has added defender Wilfred Williams to its roster ahead of Saturday’s NISA Eastern Conference match against the New York Cosmos, set for 7:30 p.m. at Finley Stadium. Williams, who is from Liberia but moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, when he was young, previously played one match for Chattanooga FC, against Detroit City FC in 2018. He most recently played for the Oakland Roots SC, the California club CFC visited in late February to kick off the professional and NISA era for the 12-year-old Chattanooga club. In CFC’s release announcing the move, coach Peter Fuller said Williams being a left-footed and left-side defender fills a desperate need for the team. Saturday’s match will CFC’s first since a 2-0 win at Detroit City FC on Aug. 15.

* Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s soccer coaches picked Tennessee Wesleyan University to finish second and Bryan fifth this year in the 14-team AAC, which kicks off its league-only season at mid-month. Truett McConnell was picked first with 11 first-place votes; the other three went to TWU.

 

Volleyball

* Former Lee University outside hitter Silvia Sartori, a three-time All-Gulf South Conference first-team selection and the GSC player of the year as a fifth-year senior in 2018, has returned to the Lady Flames as an assistant on coach Andrea Hudson’s staff. Sartori, who is from Belgrade, Serbia, has experience as a club coach and has already started recruiting for the Lady Flames, Hudson said in Lee’s release announcing the hire. For both Lee and the GSC, volleyball season has been postponed from this semester until at least Jan. 1 due to coronavirus concerns.

* While fans are not permitted to attend UTC’s lone volleyball match of the fall semester, against Georgia State at 2 p.m. Saturday at Maclellan Gymnasium, it will be streamed live on ESPN+ through Watch ESPN and ESPN apps. Links to the stream are available on the team’s schedule page at GoMocs.com or through the Go Mocs app, also available at GoMocs.com or by searching for “Chattanooga Mocs Athletics” at app stores.

* AAC volleyball coaches picked Bryan to finish seventh and Tennessee Wesleyan 12th this season. Reinhardt was predicted as the champion for the AAC, which opens its league-only schedule at mid-month.

 

Wrestling

* Baylor School graduate Noah Horst is the sixth signee of the 2020 class announced by UTC coach Kyle Ruschell. Horst, who is from Gallatin, Tennessee, and plans to study civil engineering, won the TSSAA Division II 132-pound title as a senior this past winter while also helping the Red Raiders sweep the D-II team state championships in traditional and duals competition. His accolades include National Honor Society membership and being the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Dave Schultz Award recipient for the state of Tennessee as a senior, an honor that factors in academics, citizenship and community service as well as wrestling.

 

Basketball

* The USA South Athletic Conference, which includes Covenant College, has postponed league competition in basketball until the spring semester. Covenant will also not compete in nonconference basketball games before then, a decision in line with the Scots’ move to delay competition in fall sports until next semester due to coronavirus concerns. Basketball is the only winter sport sanctioned by the conference, which is part of NCAA Division III.

 

Cross country

* The Dalton State College women’s cross country team opened its 2020 schedule Saturday with a first-place finish at Middle Georgia State University’s MGA Invitational in Macon. DSC freshman Riley Jo Ford finished first overall in the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) race with a time of 20 minutes, 28 seconds, more than a minute ahead of the runner-up. All five scoring runners for the Lady Roadrunners, who won the event for the second straight year, finished in the top eight: Alex Gass was fourth in 21:36, followed by Kate Roberts (fifth, 22:25), Kay Vradenburgh (sixth, 22:43) and Kayla Mattox (eighth, 24:35).

 

Pickleball

* Ooltewah’s Katie Dyer teamed with Kassandra Gherke from Wisconsin to finish tied for fifth in women’s doubles competition over the weekend at a professional invitational in Chicago.

Compiled by Marty Kirkland. Contact him at mkirkland@timesfreepress.com.

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