Matt Bollant, who coached the Bryan College women's basketball team to a 134-38 record and four NAIA Division II national tournaments in five seasons before becoming Wisconsin-Green Bay's head coach in 2007, now has an NCAA Division I tournament victory after his 12th-seeded Phoenix (28-4) held off Virginia on Sunday, 69-67. That was after they became the Horizon League's first-ever at-large team in the NCAA tournament, following Green Bay's upset loss in the league tournament after its 12th consecutive Horizon regular-season title. The Phoenix lost to LSU in the first round last year and went to the WNIT in Bollant's first season. He's now 83-14 at Green Bay and been the Horizon coach of the year twice. Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standout and coach Sharon Fanning-Otis also got a win Sunday with her Mississippi State team, 68-64 over Middle Tennessee.
Auto Racing
* Ron Lane, who owns a classic car dealership in Soddy-Daisy, is 3-for-3 in winning drag race top prizes so far this year. He began the season with a $5,000 win at Montgomery, Ala., and now has won twice at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip, counting his Super Pro supremacy this past Saturday. He plans to return this weekend to Montgomery, which is having three $10,000-to-win races. Lane, who won the Million Dollar bracket race in Memphis last October, prevailed Saturday with a 5.04-second run on a 5.04 dial in his rear-engine dragster powered by a modified 454 Chevrolet engine with injected pure alcohol fuel. Jerry Wilson from Flintstone was second with a 4.90 run on a 4.88 dial in his 582-cubic-inch Chevy dragster, and Chris Grayson, Mark Miles and Rick Millard completed the top five. Mike Allison won the Foot Brake class with an 8.65 run on an 8.64 dial in a 1970 Dodge Charger, with Ben Frederick second, L.C. Bigham third and Marty Goldsmith fourth. Eva Lane, Ron's wife, won for best estimated time with a 4.961 run on a 4.96 dial in her Chevy dragster, and Taylor Sweeten had the low elapsed time (4.62) and top speed (148.5 mph) of the meet.
Golf
* STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf team is in third place after 36 holes of the 12-team John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate tournament. Going into the final round today, the Lady Mocs are at 622, 21 shots behind host Georgia State and nine behind Arkansas-Little Rock. UTC was second at 305, five shots behind GSU, after the first round. UTC's Emma de Groot, Maria Juliana Loza and Christine Wolf are tied for 13th place individually at 10-over-par 154, and Moa Duf is tied for 31st at 160. GSU's Cathrine Madsen and Daytona State's Jennifer Gartin lead with 146s.
Baseball
* Cleveland State sophomore first baseman Cody Hooper from Ranger, Ga., and Gordon Central High School was chosen the TCCAA/Region VII baseball player of the week for March 7-13. He went 5-for-9 in the three-game sweep of Motlow State at the beginning of the week with three home runs, a walk, four runs scored and five driven in. Twice he had tying hits with the Cougars down to their last out - a two-run homer and an RBI single. Hooper is batting .395 with eight homers and 28 RBIs for the Cougars (16-8, 7-3).
Softball
* Tennessee Wesleyan College senior Brittany Fox was voted the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball pitcher of the week after working 23 innings and going 3-0 with a save in four appearances. She pitched shutouts against Covenant and Virginia Intermont and struck out 22 batters in 23 innings, allowing only nine hits and three earned runs. Five of the hits and all three runs came in a nonconference win against Maryville.
Swimming
* Freshman swimmer Susanna Kirby from Baylor School was chosen as Rhodes College's female athlete of the month for February for her performance in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference meet. She broke the Rhodes record for the women's 400 individual medley with a second-place 4:37.77, a B-cut national qualifying time. Kirby finished sixth in both the 200 IM and the 200 breaststroke and took part in four relays for the fifth-place Lynx.