SAC 20 for 20: Moments No. 16-20

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No. 20 | Catawba women's golf - Paige Haverty wins four straight SAC Player of the Year awards (2003-06)

From 2003 to 2006, Catawba's Paige Haverty compiled one of the most prolific careers in the history of SAC women's golf, winning four-straight SAC Player of the Year awards. She remains the only women's golfer in conference history to win the award in four-consecutive seasons.

Haverty won individual titles at 13 of the 44 events she competed in during her Catawba career and added nine more runner-up finishes. She was the Food Lion SAC Women's Golf Championship medalist in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Haverty's scoring average of 75.38 in the 2005-06 season remains the second best in SAC history.

No. 19 | Tusculum women's tennis – Lesley Murray earns SAC Player of the Year honors four years in a row (2001-04)

Tusculum's Lesley Murray dominated women's tennis in the SAC from 2001 to 2004, compiling a 64-2 record in singles play and winning four-consecutive SAC Player of the Year awards. She closed her TC career with 20-straight singles victories.

Led by Murray, Tusculum won SAC regular season titles in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and captured the 2004 Food Lion SAC Women's Tennis Championship. The Pioneers earned selections to the NCAA Division II Tennis Championship in each of Murray's four seasons.

Murray was also picked as the SAC Freshman of the Year in 2001, the SAC Tournament MVP in 2004 and the SAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2003 and 2004.

No. 18 | Tusculum women's basketball – Pioneers upset No. 11 Lander to win NCAA Southeast Region Championship (March 15, 2010)

After winning the Food Lion SAC Women's Basketball Championship a week earlier, Tusculum advanced past Clayton St. and Francis Marion in the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional, setting up a battle with top-seeded Lander in the regional final.

Led by 30 points from SAC Player of the Year Jasmine Gunn, the Pioneers erased a 16-point second-half deficit to win the game 70-63, advancing to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. Tusculum held Lander, which came in ranked 11th in the nation, to just 29.7-percent shooting in the second half and forced 19 turnovers.

Despite later falling in the first round of the Elite Eight, Tusculum finished the season with 23 wins, the third-most in school history.

No. 17 | Anderson men's basketball – Denzail Jones scores 50 points in SAC Championship semifinal (March 3, 2012)

In one of the most exciting games in SAC Basketball Championship history, Anderson junior Denzail Jones scored 50 points as the Trojans outlasted Newberry in double overtime, 113-106, to reach the SAC title game for the first time since joining the league. Jones' 50 points were the most ever scored in a SAC Tournament game and just one shy of the all-time league record.

The SAC Player of the Year made 21 of his 31 field goal attempts in the game and scored 16 of Anderson's 19 points in the first overtime period.

Jones was later named an All-American by DII Bulletin after averaging 17.5 points, 3.33 assists and 2.30 steals per game in 2011-12.

No. 16 | Lenoir-Rhyne softball – Bears set SAC record with 53 wins (2010)

Led by All-Americans Sarah Atkins and Kat Rivers, Lenoir-Rhyne set a SAC softball record with 53 victories and won both the SAC regular season and tournament championships. L-R went on to reach the NCAA Division II Softball Championship Super Regional round.

Lenoir-Rhyne finished 15-1 in the SAC, which at the time were the most wins in league play in conference history. The Bears finished the season with a team ERA of 2.17 and outscored their opponents 420-159.

L-R accounted for multiple conference awards in 2010, including Rivers as the SAC Player of the Year, Atkins as SAC Tournament MVP and Shena Hollar as SAC Coach of the Year.

The next SAC 20 for 20 announcement, highlighting moments No. 11-15, will be released the week of January 21.