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UNCG 1, ELON 0: Freshman Tabitha Padgett scored in the 71st minute and UNCG beat Elon 1-0 on Thursday to win its fourth straight Southern Conference regular-season championship in women's soccer. The Spartans secured the top seed and hosting duties for the conference tournament, which will be held Nov. 6 and 8 at UNCG Soccer Stadium. UNCG finished the regular season with a 13-6 overall record and a 9-2 mark to sit atop the SoCon standings. Elon (12-5-2, 7-3-1) will have to wait for Saturday's Davidson-Georgia Southern match to learn its fate -- a Davidson win would put the Wildcats into a tie with Elon for fourth in the league and give Davidson entry into the four-team tournament.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

NO. 11 WAKE FOREST 3, NO. 12 MARYLAND 1: Kaley Fountain scored a goal and assisted on two others to lead Wake Forest.

NO. 6 BOSTON COLLEGE 1, DUKE 0: Amy Caldwell scored the game's only goal to lift Boston College.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

GUILFORD: ODAC men's basketball coaches picked Guilford College first in the league's annual preseason poll. The Quakers received 119 points and accumulated 10 first-place votes. Virginia Wesleyan College earned the remaining first-place vote and tied for second place with Randolph-Macon.

COLLEGES

WINSTON-SALEM STATE: Bill Hayes -- whose career in college sports spans 36 years, including 15 as head football coach at N.C. A&T -- has been named athletics director at Winston-Salem State. He begins work Jan. 1. Hayes is currently athletics director at Florida A&M and was head football coach at WSSU for 12 seasons. He joined FAMU in 2008 after serving as athletics director at N.C. Central for nearly five years.

HONORS

WOMEN'S SOCCER: Sewanee freshman midfielder Bess Goodman (Grimsley) has been named Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

UNCG: UNCG senior women's soccer players Kelly Attayek and Lauren Lopez have earned spots on the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III second team.