Jordan Britt from Chattanooga won the inaugural Fort Rucker Open, a National Women's Golf Association tournament in Alabama, in a three-way playoff. The former Girls Preparatory, Signal Mountain and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standout won $5,000 for her victory on the U.S. Army installation's Silver Wings Golf Club. Britt shot 74, 72 and 73 for her three rounds and won with an eagle on the first playoff hole. The NWGA, formerly known as the SunCoast Ladies Pro Golf Tour, is doing a military appreciation tour.
Baseball
* Chattanooga State's annual fall baseball instructional league was pushed back this year to be more in the fall and avoid some of the weather issues of past years, and registration has reached almost half of the desired 75 players. The plan is for six teams with 12 or 13 players, and Tigers coach Greg Dennis said Saturday that "about 35" have signed up. Evaluations for the purpose of player placement will be done on Thursday, Sept. 10, but Dennis said participants can be accepted into the following week if the maximum hasn't been reached. "We're going to use Tuesday and Thursday of that week as instruction days and then set the teams, and the actual league starts up the following Monday (Sept. 21). We'll play three nights a week, two games a night." The league will take a rest the week of Hamilton County schools' fall break and "then get in three or four more weeks," Dennis said. The cost is $200 for first-time participants in the league, $150 for second-year players, $100 for third-year players and $50 for seniors taking part for the fourth time. "About half every year are returnees at some level, and the other half are usually ninth-graders or maybe 10th-graders joining us for the first time," Dennis said. "We hope for a nice smattering of both." Forms are available at www.chattanoogastate.edu/athletics/baseball, or anyone interested can email Greg.Dennis@chattanoogastate.edu or call 697-2418.
Softball
* UTC coach Frank Reed will teach hitting and Chattanooga State coach Blythe Golden will teach catching at a free clinic for area fastpitch softball coaches next Sunday at Connect Training Center, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Brandon Carr will led the pitching instruction. The center, which founders Jill and Jeremy Higdon call "Chattanooga's first nonprofit softball skills training facility," is a 6,000-square-foot indoor facility at 4253 Cromwell Road, Suite 419, and opens for registration Monday. CTC helped the city of Chattanooga with its RBI League softball players' development this year and has a teaching partnership with Golden and the Lady Tigers. Register at connecttrainingcenter.com.
Soccer
* Dalton State is now 1-0-1 this season and all time in men's soccer after tying Florida National University 1-1 Saturday morning at Hialeah, Fla. Tomide Dabale gave the Roadrunners a 1-0 lead on a header early in the game from a pass by Ibrahima Sissoko, who has scored or assisted on all five of the team's goals. The host Conquistadors tied the score just before halftime. Dalton State hosts Milligan at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeshore Park.
Volleyball
* The stiff competition brought in for the Bryan College Preseason Bash volleyball tournament left the host Lady Lions 0-4 for the season. Their first three opponents were ranked in the top 20 of the NAIA preseason poll, and the fourth, St. Catharine, received votes for Top 25 recognition. St. Catharine beat Bryan 3-0 (25-17, 25-12, 25-21) after fourth-ranked Viterbo University also won 3-0 (25-13, 25-18, 25-16) Saturday against the Dayton school. Bryan, co-favored in the Appalachian Athletic Conference, begins AAC play Sept. 1 at Montreat.
* In volleyball exhibition matches Saturday at Cleveland, Ga., Dalton State won 3-1 over host Truett-McConnell (26-24, 19-25, 25-15, 25-22) and 3-0 over Piedmont (25-19, 25-17, 25-20). The Roadrunners, with seven players added since last season, will open their season this Friday and Saturday in the Lindsey Wilson Classic in Columbia, Ky.
Running
* Geno Phillips won the Affordable Botox SuperHero 10-kilometer race Saturday at Enterprise South Nature Park with a time of 35 minutes, 26 seconds, and Jennifer Curtis was the women's winner and 11th overall in 44:28. The winners out of 173 finishers in the accompanying 5k were Justin Guy in 18:21 and Ashley Humble, 10th overall in 24:05. Dean Thompson was the 10k runner-up and masters winner in 37:15 with Ryan Shrum, Ken Curran and Tripp McCallie completing the top five, and Lisa Logan was 14th overall as the second woman and female masters winner. The 5k masters winners were David Hartman and Barbara Ensign, seventh and 13th overall.