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The Wake Forest women's golf team came into the second round of the Lady Tar Heel Invitational tied for first with Virginia. After a season-low 291 Saturday, the Demon Deacons opened up an 11-stroke lead with one round remaining.

Virginia wound up carding a 302.

"We played consistent today and had another very good round," said Wake head coach Dianne Dailey. "This is how we wanted to be playing from the start of the year. Everyone played well and it was just a very solid effort today."

Natalie Sheary had six birdies in the second round, posting 35 on both the front and the back nines to card a 2-under par 70. It was her lowest round of the season and the lowest since a final round 70 at last spring's ACC Championship.

"Natalie is hitting the ball so well that she is giving herself a number of good chances for birdie," Dailey said. "She made some really good putts today, and she is playing with a lot of confidence right now."

RUNNING

WOMEN'S ONLY 5K: Jane Murage of Royersford, Pa., won the Women's Only 5K in Greensboro on Saturday with a time of 16:14. Maggie Harahan, 14, of Greensboro was the first local finisher with a time of 6:58. Results, C9

SOCCER

GREENSBORO: Chris Ports scored twice as second-ranked York College (11-0) defeated visiting Greensboro College, 5-0. Kurt Gardiner had five saves for the Pride (6-4-1). ... The women's team lost at Christopher Newport, 2-0. Katie Allegro had seven saves for The Pride.

GUILFORD: The Quaker men rallied for a 4-3 at Bridgewater College. The Quakers (2-7-1, 2-2-1 ODAC) scored four straight goals in the middle of the match to offset the Eagles' Chris Thomas' hat trick.

WAKE FOREST: Cody Arnoux recorded the first hat trick of his career in an 8-2 win over Virginia Tech. The eight goals scored by the Deacons equals the most against an ACC opponent in school history. Ike Opara also scored two first-half goals for Wake Forest. Corben Bone added two assists for the Deacons.

UNCG: Coleton Hanning scored his second goal of the night with 2:47 remaining in the second overtime to lift Furman past UNCG 3-2, in Southern Conference men's soccer action. The loss was UNCG's sixth by one goal this season. The Spartans (3-7-1) are 2-6-1 in matches decided by one goal or less this season. The last seven meetings between Furman and UNCG match have been decided by one goal or less, including the last two in overtime.

HIGH POINT: The women's soccer team made a triumphant return home, posting a 2-0 victory over Big South rival Winthrop (4-7-0, 0-3-0) in front of a record crowd of 1,493 fans at Vert Track & Soccer Stadium. Senior Renee Hitchcock scored her fourth goal of the season and her third in the last four games just 1:36 minutes into the action for a 1-0 lead for the Panthers (6-2-4, 2-0-0).

CROSS COUNTRY

UNCG: The women, racing in their first 6K of the season, were sixth at the Mason Invitational with 224 points. At the Hagan Stone Classic, UNCG's men's team finished sixth.

DUKE: The women defended their team title at the Murray Keatinge Invitational at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The Blue Devils placed all of its scorers in the top 20 individually. The Blue Devils were led by senior Molly Lehman's fourth place finish, covering the 5K run in 18:11.34.

ELON: The men's cross country team finished first out of eight Division I teams at the Hagen Stone Classic. The team beat out North Carolina, who took second at the meet. Leading the way for Elon was Rick Meyers, who took third with a time of 26:03.5.

VOLLEYBALL

GUILFORD: The Quakers split a non-conference tri-match hosted by Salem College. The Quakers knocked off St. Paul's College 25-22, 25-17, 25-14. Anna Miller had 10 kills and Katie Dailey had 22 assists in the win. In the second match, the host Spirits won a 25-22, 14-25, 25-18, 23-25, 15-11 decision.

UNCG: The Spartans defeated Wofford 3-0 at Fleming Gymnasium. Set scores were 25-16, 25-17, 25-22.

WAKE FOREST: The Deacs swept visiting North Carolina in Reynolds Gym. Wake rolled to wins of 25-13, 28-26, 25-15.

DUKE: Becci Burling had a career-high four service aces to lead Duke to a 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-18) win over N.C. State.

ELON: The Phoenix (21-7, 1-2) team fell to the Furman Paladins 3-0 at Alumni Gym. The set scores were 25-20. 25-19, 33-31. Kelley Blakewood les Elon with 30 digs.

field hockey

UNC: No. 4 North Carolina (9-2, 2-0 ACC) beat No. 3 Wake Forest (9-2, 1-2) 4-3 in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels scored their fourth goal at the 51:01 mark. The push-in on a penalty corner attempt went to junior Melanie Brill outside the circle and she sent it back in to junior Danielle Forword, who took a reverse-stick shot from near the top of the circle and scored her team-high 16th goal of the season.

tennis

N.C. STATE: Seniors Derek Stephens and Christian Welte both won two singles matches to advance to the final round of the prequalifying singles in the D'Novo/ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Stephens defeated Austin Klores (Texas A&M) 2-6, 7-5, 6-2. He then won his second match of the day over Bryan Swartz of Tennessee, 6-1, 6-1. Welte overpowered Phil Orno of Cleveland State, 6-4, 6-2. He then took down Oleksandr Kotsuik (Oral Roberts), 4-5, ret.

AUTO RACING

CARAWAY SPEEDWAY: Brian Loftin's early-season success allowed him to cruise to the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship at Caraway Speedway.

Loftin finished third in the Whelen 150, the final race of the season, to clinch his first NASCAR title. Loftin, who had collected a tour-high four wins, needed only to finish seventh or better to hold off challengers Tim Brown and L.W. Miller.

Andy Seuss won the race for his second career victory. Brown finished second and Miller in sixth.

Loftin ended up winning the title by 30 points over Brown and 82 over Miller, the defending champion. Those three were the only drivers to enter the final race with a chance at the title.

ACE SPEEDWAY: Brad Allen made history at Ace Speedway Friday when he became the first to win three straight championships. Twin 25 lap races were on the schedule and the championship was not decided until the last twin Modified race of the night.

Allen and his family, crew chief Sherry Allen, and engine builder and father J. W. Allen could finally relax after the cars of Richard Bailey and Josh Nichols touched tires while fighting for the lead.

Bailey crashed on the frontstretch, and Nichols ended up wrecked in the guardrail in turn two.

Allen, along with his large crowd of friends, crew, and family spoke through tears in victory lane.