Hugh Harris from Ringgold won the $5,000 Super Pro top prize in the all-Heads-Up pro-start race Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip, with a 4.97-second run on a 4.97 dial in his Madaris Co.-backed dragster powered by a 572-cubic-inch Chrysler engine. Bobby Lloyd of Silver Creek, Ga., was second with a 4.52 run on a 4.52 dial in his super-charged Chevy-powered dragster. Jeff McNally was first with David Soloman second in the 4.70 class, Matt Grayson was first with Bob Everett second in the 5.50, Ricky Millard was first with Chris Young second and Craig Cash third in the 6.00 and Justin Dempsey was first with Daniel Stutz second in the 7.00. David Bigham won the Foot Brake class with Stan Curvin second, and Jake Clayton was first with Mattie Keener second in Junior Dragster.
Tennis
* Luke Plaisted from Chattanooga in Boys 16s singles and Carly Briggs from Calhoun, Ga., in Girls 16s singles and doubles, with Maddox Bandy from Signal Mountain, were area winners in the McCallie John Strang junior tennis tournament this past weekend. It included 306 players from throughout the South in matches at McCallie, Girls Preparatory School and the Champions Club. There were two draws in every age group besides 10s, and Jeff Dewald of Franklin, Tenn., and Oluna Bilukha of Atlanta joined Plaisted and Briggs as 16s singles champs. Other singles winners were Jayman Jhattu of Duluth, Ga., and Brandon Freestone of Roswell in Boys 18s, Danielle Vines of Elizabethton and Julia Adams of Knoxville in Girls 18s, Georgians Masaki Posey of Union City and Pranav Iyer of Johns Creek in Boys 14s, Emma Bentz of Loganville, Ga., and Carina Dagotto of Knoxville in Girls 14s, Harshit Dhayal of Johns Creek and Ethan Carr of Birmingham in Boys 12s, Abigail Solomon of Knoxville and Katie Beavin of Prospect, Ky., in Girls 12s and Charlie Robin of Huntsville, Ala., and Mimi Proctor of Brentwood.
Swimming
* Baylor School was fourth and Girls Preparatory School was sixth in the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association's final rankings for 2015 for independent schools with fewer than 1,000 students. The Bolles School from Jacksonville, Fla., was first, Suffield Academy from Connecticut was second and Harpeth Hall from Nashville was third. GPS was seventh in the rankings last year.