Cynthia Warnock of Chattanooga won the $10,000 Super Pro class race Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. The 37-year-old ultrasonographer defeated 67 cars in nine rounds of competition, winning with a 4.63-second run on a 4.62 dial in a dragster owned by her father, Ronnie Warnock, with a Steven Farrow-built 632-cubic-inch Chevy motor using alcohol injection. Jonathan Wigley of Fayette, Ala., was second with a 5.74-second run on a 5.73 dial in a 1977 Chevy Vega with a 468-ci big-block engine. Jerry Wilson of Flintstone was third with a 4.86 run on a 4.85 dial in his Chevy dragster. David Bigham of Calhoun, Ga., won the $1,000 Foot Brake prize with a 7.93 run on a 7.90 dial in his 1969 Dodge Dart. Mike Dyke Jr. of Hampton, Ga., was second. Tucker Kay was the Junior Dragster winner with 2014 strip champion Jake Clayton second. Kevin Rodden again had the low elapsed time and top speed of the night, 4.50 seconds at 144.50 mph, in his supercharged big-block dragster.
* Matt Henderson won the NeSmith Late Model race Saturday night at I-75 Speedway at Sweetwater. Cory Hedgecock and Anthony White were second and third in that race and first and second in Steel Head Late Model, where Brad Coffey was third.The victors in the other divisions were Micah Collins in Mod Lite, Scott Gardner in Sportsman, D.J. McMahan in B-Hobby, Dustin Campbell in Thunder, Michael Courtney in Four Cylinder and Nick Adams in Front Wheel Drive.
Golf
* Led by Julia McQuilken in a tie for second individually and Katie Dalton in a tie for fourth, the Dalton State women's golf team grabbed the first-day lead Monday in the Coastal Georgia Invitational tournament at the Jekyll Island Club's Pine Lakes Course. McQuilken is at 73, one stroke out of the lead, and Dalton shot 75. Teammates Erika Wardzinski and Caroline Griffin are tied for 10th and 14th, respectively, at 78 and 79, and Rachel Rebne carded an 81. The Roadrunners' 305 total is six better than second-pace Faulkner, with defending NAIA national champion Keiser third at 312 in the 11-team field.
* The Lee University men's golf team is third at 285, five shots behind leader Georgia Southwestern, after the first day of the Montevallo Blue Moon Invitational tournament at Timberlake Golf Club in Montevallo, Ala. Lee's Peyton Sliger is tied for third individually at 2-under-par 68, and Adam Wright shares 12th place at 71 with Matt Strube and Taylor Davis in a group at 73. The Flames' non-counting score was a 74 by Shea Sylvester. Young Harris is the second-place team at 283.
* The Lee women's golfers rose from eighth place in Monday's first round of the 15-team Ross Resorts Invitational to a tie for fifth at 632 going into the final 18 holes today at Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. Rollins leads at 616. Cailey Gino's 78 was Lee's best score in the first 18, but Sam Burrus and Caroline Moore shot 75s in the afternoon and Bernadette Little had a 79.
Volleyball/Soccer
* Bryan College swept the Appalachian Athletic Conference volleyball awards for the week, with Kara Stamper the attacker of the week, Kayla Rymer the top defender and Shelby Grace Enochs the top setter. As the Lady Lions went 3-2, Enochs had 194 assists, Rymer 88 digs and Stamper 78 kills with respective match highs of 48, 31 and 19. Enochs also had 54 digs, and Stamper leads the AAC with 177 kills for the season. Bryan's Sarah Catherine Baker was the women's soccer offensive player of the week for her three goals against Talladega.
Shooting
* Soddy-Daisy High School student Eli Christman won first place in his class in both sporting clays and FITASC (international sporting clays) at the Tennessee State Championships this past weekend at Paris, Tenn. He previously won a state skeet championship, and his success the past two months have moved him from Class E to Class C and now to Class B for his next tournament. Only Class MM shooters and one in Class AA did better than Christman's 85 score in FITASC at the Holly Fork Shooting Complex in Paris; his sporting clays score was 84.
Running
* Covenant College senior Spookie Eaves was honored as the USA South women's cross country runner of the week. She led the Lady Scots to a 13th-place finish out of 22 NCAA Division II and Division III and NAIA teams at the Furman Classic this past weekend at Greenville, S.C. She beat her personal record for 6 kilometers by 13 seconds with her 24:16.89 time.