In a combination of 50 seasons coaching the soccer teams at Maryville College, Tennessee Wesleyan Hall of Fame member Pepe Fernandez has accumulated 600 wins. He reached the milestone with his women's team's 3-1 home win Wednesday over Covenant College. Fernandez, who previously coached high school teams at Hixson and Notre Dame, is 292-121-31 in 24 seasons with the Lady Scots, who are 7-4 this year, and 308-139-33 in 26 years with the men's team, which is 6-3-1 in 2014 after a scoreless draw Tuesday against Covenant. Allyson Hale from South Pittsburg and St. Andrew's-Sewanee School scored midway through the first half Wednesday for Maryville, and she, Jordyn Lee and Covenant's Anna Porch scored within 80 seconds of each other deep into the second half. Lucy Johnson made 13 saves for the 5-6-1 visitors, who were outshot 29-5.
• The Bryan College men's soccer team beat visiting Tennessee Wesleyan 3-0 in an Appalachian Athletic Conference match Wednesday night in Dayton, lifting the Lions to 4-4 overall and 1-2 in the league. TWC is 3-4-1, 1-2.
Volleyball
• Bryan College's Taylor Fink was the AAC volleyball player and setter of the week and teammate Meghan Lowry was the hitter of the week for their play in six victories, the last four giving the Lady Lions the championship of Lee University's tournament. Fink was supremely consistent with 44, 45, 40, 46, 46 and 45 assists in the six matches. She added 13 digs in one and five aces in another. Lowry had matches with 16 and 15 kills and others with 10, nine, eight and seven and a weeklong attack percentage of .367.
• Despite 16 kills by Alyne Bianchi and 45 assists and 22 digs by Michala Askew, the Dalton State volleyball team lost 3-1 (25-14, 28-30, 25-22, 25-22) to Southern Wesleyan in a Southern States Athletic Conference match Tuesday night in Central, S.C. Also for DSC (7-6, 3-4), Anna Metzler had eight kills and Karly Newman had 11 digs.
• Victoria Smith had 10 kills and was in on nine blocks and Naomi Posada had 34 digs with nine kills in Tennessee Temple's 3-2 volleyball loss Tuesday at Truett-McConnell. Also for Temple (11-9), Shatoya Medford and Lydia Vick had seven kills apiece and 19 and 16 digs.
Baseball
• Nine Chattanooga Cyclones K baseball players were all-tournament selections for the World Wood Bat Southeastern Qualifier the team won last weekend. The tournament included 56 teams, and the Cyclones outscored their opponents 35-7 in rising to 20-2 for the season. Cyclones honored were Corbin Brooksbank, Hunter Mercer, Logan Haga, Cade Evans, Noah Hill, Cole Vaughn, Jackson Bell, Cruz Bautista and Nic Gaddis. Gaddis was picked as both a pitcher and a position player. The selections were based on tourney statistics as well as observations by scouts and Perfect Game staff in attendance.
Tennis
• Dalton State's Adam Hornby and Nikolay Nikiforov reached the finals of the school's first-ever NAIA/ITA regional tournament last weekend in Georgetown, Ky. They lost 8-5 to a Lindsey Wilson duo who were the No. 1 seeds. Before that, Hornby and Nikiforov edged a Georgetown team 9-8, a Campbellsville duo 8-6 and two other Lindsey Wilson tandems 8-4. Hornby, a DSC sophomore from New Zealand, reached the singles semifinals with two 6-0, 6-3 wins, a 6-0, 6-1 victory and a 6-2, 7-6 quarterfinal defeat of Cumberland's Andres Burgos. Hornby was cramping by the end of that one, however, and went to a hospital to be treated for dehydration and didn't get back in time for the semifinals.
Soccer
• The Premier Soccer Academy's Lanus under-18 boys' team reached the final of a tournament this past weekend at Camp Jordan Park in East Ridge and lost to the FC Alliance 98B NL team that is ranked first in the age group in Tennessee and sixth in Region III. Playing without several usual starters who had been injured during the tournament, Lanus lost 6-1. But FC Alliance 98B had won 5-1 in pool play. Lanus tied CFCA 97 0-0 in another pool match and beat the Chattanooga FC 98 Premier 2-0 in the seminals.