Chattanooga State holding Midnight Madness - and more Chattanooga region sports news

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The Chattanooga State basketball teams are doing a version of Midnight Madness this Thursday night, starting at 11:30 p.m., and the public is invited. There will be free food and music, and the first 100 through the doors will each get a free T-shirt. After the clock hits 12, the event will include a 3-point-shooting contest with the Lady Tigers' Sydney Sims, Kiera Jones and Daja Jackson and a dunk contest featuring the Tigers' Tramon Moore, Chaunce Watkins and Montrell McKenzie, as well as 12-minute scrimmages for both teams. The regular season begins Nov. 4.

Volleyball

• The first-place Bryan College volleyball team won 3-0 in Appalachian Athletic Conference volleyball Tuesday night at Tennessee Wesleyan. The set scores were 25-13, 25-19, 25-13 favoring the Lady Lions (15-3, 6-0). TWC is 5-10, 3-3. AAC member Truett-McConnell (4-13) rallied to down Tennessee Temple 3-2 in Cleveland, Ga. (20-25, 20-25, 25-19, 25-21, 15-11). Victoria Smith had 10 kills and was in on nine blocks and Naomi Posada had nine kills and 34 digs for Temple (11-9), while Shatoya Medford and Lydia Vick had seven kills each and 19 and 16 digs.

• Alabama-Huntsville defeated visiting Lee University 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-20) in Gulf South Conference volleyball Tuesday. Erin Hill and Lauren Williams had 10 and nine kills for Lee (5-7, 3-4), while Haley Foote had 19 assists and Latrice Johnson and Stephanie Hernandez had 11 and 10 digs.

• The Georgia Northwestern Technical College volleyball team beat Crown College 3-1 on Monday at the Rossville Athletic Center, 22-25, 25-20, 25-15, 25-22. Crown had won their Aug. 30 meeting. Sabrina Garcia led the Lady Bobcats (3-5) in kills with seven, while Mikiah Treece had 20 digs and four aces, Sara Birge also served four aces and Rachel McGill had 11 digs.

• Carson-Newman setter Kristen Pickett from Cleveland High School was the South Atlantic Conference volleyball specialist of the week after averaging 11 assists per set in the Lady Eagles' three matches. She had 36 assists and 11 digs, 50 assists and nine digs and 48 assists and 15 digs. She passed 3,000 career assists and moved up to fifth all-time in CNI career aces.

Soccer

• The Covenant and Maryville College men's soccer teams played to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a battle of Scots at Maryville. Covenant (6-3-2) had an edge of 13-3 in shots on goal, but Ben Munger made 13 saves for Maryville (6-3-1) and a Hunter Brock shot in the 88th minute deflected off the post.

Golf

• Hunter Cornelius from Heritage High School helped Coastal Georgia continue its men's golf winning streak with the victory Monday and Tuesday at the Thomas University Fall Invitational at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club in Valdosta, Ga. The Mariners won by nine strokes with a 573, and Cornelius was 18th individually at 147 after sharing second place with his first-day 70.

• Former Walker Valley golfer Cortnee Young finished seventh as one of four King University players in the top 10 of the King invitational tournament the Tornado won Monday and Tuesday in Bristol, Tenn. Young had the third best King score, a 158.

• Led by a second-place finish for Saer Brown at 3-under-par 141, the Sewanee men's golf team finished third Monday in the SAA Preview at Old Fort Golf Club in Murfreesboro. The Sewanee women finished fourth with Chattanoogan Emily Javadi fourth individually behind three players from 2014 NCAA Division III champion Rhodes. Javadi shot two 75s and teammates Jenna King and Brook Vann tied for 12th and 18th at 162 and 164. Besides Brown for the male Tigers, Timothy Walter tied for seventh at 148 and Taylor Mottern and Cole Parrish were 10th and tied for 11th at 150 and 151.

Running

• Dalton State's Spencer Head was the Southern States Athletic Conference men's cross country runner of the week for the second time this season for his first-place finish in the North Georgia Invitational meet last Saturday at Oakwood, Ga. The junior from Washington state was 32 seconds ahead of the runner-up in the 71-man, 8-kilometer race with his 25:54. "He's a great athlete, and it's scary to think what he can do when he gets in peak shape," DSC co-coach Andy Meyer said in a school release.

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