Women’s Soccer
The Lady Lions continued their dominance on the pitch in the Lion’s Den as they sent conference rival Agnes Scott home to the tune of a 2-0 victory last Wednesday.
The Lady Lions are looking for another CCS title and with securing their second conference win over the Scotties, they stand with a 2-1 conference record. “We look forward to competing in the league for another conference championship,” head coach Timmy McCormack said. “Our team knows what they need to do in order to get that done.”
From the opening whistle it was evident who was going to win this game. The Lady Lions dominated on possession and rarely let the Scotties break through into their territory. Agnes Scott goalie Olivia Rosario performed well thwarting any offensive attack for most of the first half. But finally, the Lady Lions were able to find a crack in Rosario’s game as sophomore defender Jocelyn Maseda found senior Gabbie Hayes who took the shot for the eventual game winning goal. The score marked Hayes’ first goal since 2021. Senior Elissa Lotter found a clear path to the goal in the second half and put the game to bed for the Lady Lions.
After a long week of rest, the Lady Lions (4-5-2) will next take the pitch at Huntingdon (4-5-1) Oct. 4.
—Eric Edmondson
Women’s Tennis
Finishing out their fall season, the women’s tennis team traveled to Sewanee, Tennessee for the ITA Regional Tournament where the Lady Lions competed individually Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
The two-day event consisted of three brackets: main bracket, purple, bracket and the gold bracket. Freshman Daisha Thompson won the Gold Singles Draw winning two matches, receiving a bye in the first round. Several players won their consolation bracket: Alyssa McSpadden, Mia Vasher, Olivia Carpenter, Holan Rabensdorf and Amanda Barrett. Three doubles teams won their consolation draws. The Lady Lions performance, however, was not strong enough to lead them to Sunday’s play.
Sophomore Sarah Row was a Purple Draw Doubles Finalist. Row says the weekend was demanding. “This weekend was challenging, because ITAs provides us with even matchups to guarantee competitive play.”
This event closes out the fall season for the Lions, and they will resume competition in the spring.
—Erin Donovan
Men’s Soccer
Sewanee defeated Piedmont men’s soccer 6-3 on Sunday with a strong start from the Tigers in the opening half. Despite two goals scored by senior Brady Puckett, Sewanee was able to pull ahead against the Lions.
“In the game against Sewanee we went down by 3 early on and in the first half it wasn’t looking good until coach made some subs that started to turn things around,” said sophomore Keegan Fabien.
With the Tigers leading 3-0, Fabien took the corner with Puckett putting the Lions on the scoreboard 3-1. The Lions managed to keep the Tigers stuck in the back and ended up losing it. The Lions trailed 3-2 at the break after junior James Cash converted a penalty kick less than a minute later.
“The opening to the game we were too casual, which has been a reoccurring issue with us this year. But I think we will be able to fix it in the games ahead,” said Fabien.
The Lions (3-5-3, 1-0 in the CCS) will return to the field at LaGrange College on Oct. 3.
—Jailyn Green
Women’s Cross-Country
The women’s cross-country team headed to Mount Berry, Georgia to compete in the Berry Invitational. Paced by a graduate student Jaycie Ponce, the Lady Lions took sixth place out of 14 teams at the event.
Ponce had herself a great day finishing in sixth place out of 99 runners with a pace of 24:30.9 Sophomore Skyler Seeber also put up a great pace with a 24:47.2 to finish in 11th place.
The Lady Lions will return to the course on Oct. 13 at the Roanoke Invitational in Salem, Virginia.
—Nathan Mix
Volleyball
The Piedmont Lions volleyball team competed in a conference tri-match this past weekend at Lagrange College, taking on the Lagrange Panthers and the Covenant College Scots. They were first swept by the conference-leading Scots 18-25, 17-25, 18-25, but bounced back by sweeping the Panthers 25-21, 25-11, 25-9.
“This past week didn’t go how we wanted it to go with Covenant,” said senior middle blocker Destiny Deetz. “We started off really strong in that first set and we kind of deferred from our game plan a little bit. We didn’t finish how we wanted to, but we are definitely very excited to see them again. Lagrange is always competitive, so it’s just going in there and taking care of business.”
In the first game versus Covenant, senior Jenna Ash led the team with 12 kills, followed by freshman Kaylee Ashcraft with eight. Senior Taylor Hermann led the team in defense with 19 digs. Piedmont’s 18 total errors compared to Covenant’s eight was the deciding factor in the match.
Against Lagrange, sophomore Katie Hubbard led the team with eight kills, followed by seven kills from Ashcraft and junior Jessica Sconyers. Ashcraft also had nine serving aces. Defensively, Hermann once again led the team with 11 digs.
Ashcraft received yet another CCS Rookie of the week award for her performances this week.
“I think we’re all just really excited to be able to compete at this level,” Deetz said. “The coaches are pushing us every day, and this is the first season we’ve all came together and played for the conference championship.”
The Lady Lions currently sit in second place in the CCS, and will continue their season this Saturday, Oct. 7 in the Cave Arena at noon.
—Chloe Spradlin
