Diann Uustall, Skip Brannen, Roger Clem and Ann Aiken from the Chattanooga River Rats masters swimming team won a total of 20 events and added three second-place finishes in the Tennessee State Senior Games the past two days in Murfreesboro. Uustall and Brannen had six firsts each and set eight state records in their 60-64 age groups. Uustal established women’s records in the 50 butterfly, 50 breaststroke, 50 freestyle, 50 and 100 backstrokes and 100 individual medley, and Brannen set men’s marks in the 50 and 200 back while also winning the 100 back, 50 and 200 free and 50 fly. In 55-59, Clem won the men’s 50, 100 and 200 back events, the 100 fly and 100 IM and was second in the 200 IM, and Aiken won the 50 and 100 breast and 100 IM, was second in the 50 and 200 free and was third in the 100 free. In 50-55, Lynn Johnson was second in the 500 free and third in the 50 free.
* Led by seven home runs from George “Burl” Dill, Chattanooga’s Legends won the 75-over division of the Tennessee State Senior Games softball competition last week in Franklin. They went 4-0 and the team batting average was .750. Dill, 78, hit two grand slams and another homer in one game and was walked every time he came to bat in the fourth game. He and Dan Dupree each batted .901 for the tournament and Henry Jacks, Frank Matera and Emory White hit .781, .769 and .762 for the Legends, who qualified for the National Senior Games next June in Houston. Dill had to pitch and manager Jack Gibson had to play after pitcher Don Grimes got hurt, and Gibson went 8-for-8. Fred Kilby hit .666, Jim Dunbar .622, Harold Jennings and Raymond Fowler each .568 and Earl Williams .500. Raymond Phelps completed the group at Franklin. “The men played great defense and great offense, and we had a great time,” Gibson said.
Volleyball
* Former Baylor School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball star Lara Newberry has been added to the UTC coaching staff as a student assistant. She set NCAA Division I single-season and career records for digs during her 2005-09 Lady Mocs career, and she will work primarily with UTC’s liberos and defensive specialists. “We are excited to have someone with Lara’s credentials and background being able to help us with our defense,” head coach Lisa Rhodes said in a school release Thursday. “She will be able to relate to the players at their level but still command respect as a coach. It’s always nice to have one of your own helping. ... She has an understanding of what I expect in a player and how I run my program.” While completing work on her sociology degree, Newberry helped with Baylor’s volleyball program. UTC begins preseason camp on Aug. 11 and opens the season Aug. 27 at the Lady Vol Classic in Knoxville.
Tennis
* Tennessee’s Junior Team Tennis State Championships run today through Sunday at the Champions Club and McCallie School and with the 10- and 8-under groups using modified courts at the Racquet Club. There are more than 500 boys and girls from throughout the state entered in age groups also including 18-, 14- and 12-under. Boys’ singles and doubles, girls’ singles and doubles and mixed doubles are included in each team match, and total games won decide match victories. More than 600 players and family members are signed up for the tournament party tonight on the Southern Belle riverboat.
Golf
* Southwest Georgia’s young golfers waited out a long weather delay and won the GSGA’s 37th annual Junior Sectional Challenge Match on Wednesday at Southern Hills Golf Club in Hawkinsville, with Northwest Georgia finishing second among the state’s seven sections. The Southwest group totaled 60.32 points to 54.61 for first-day leader Northwest, which had the overall runner-up in LaFayette’s Levi Nix with a 36-hole 153. Chatsworth’s Chase Jones and Tyler Simpson tied for seventh and 12th in Boys’ 16-17 at 157 and 163, and Chatsworth’s Colby Hipp shared ninth in 14-15 at 160. Calhoun’s Dallas Vaughn was second in Girls’ 12-13 with a 36-hole 83, and Dalton’s Davis Smith was 16th in Boys’ 11-under at 88.
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