The Chattanooga Football Club ended its regular season Tuesday night with a 3-0 road win over the Knoxville Force, which will visit top-seeded Chattanooga in the National Premier Soccer League Southeast Conference playoff semifinals Friday. Luke Winter scored a first-half goal, and an own goal and a Juanito Hernandez header made it 3-0 as Chattanooga FC finished 9-0-1 in league play, with an NPSL-high 28 points assuring hosting privileges throughout the postseason. CFC will face Knoxville in the 7:30 p.m. match Friday at Finley Stadium, after No. 2 seed Memphis City meets New Orleans at 5. Tickets cost $10 for both, $10 also for Saturday's final or $15 for a full weekend pass.
Academics
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golfers Emily McLennan, Isabella Loza, Megan Woods and Monica San Juan earned Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar distinction for the 2015-16 season, and the Mocs compiled a program-record 3.776 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. The All-American Scholar listing requires a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 and a high amount of participation in the team's competition. Senior McLennan was the Southern Conference golfer of the year, sophomore Woods won the conference tournament and senior Loza and freshman San Juan also greatly helped the Mocs achieve not only the program's best GPA but its best scoring average (296.43), with two tournament wins. Loza and Woods were among UTC's 21 athletes in all sports with 4.0 averages for the school year, and McLennan (3.90) and San Juan (3.82) also made the Commissioner's Medal list for GPAs of at least 3.8. Other Mocs 4.0s were by Stuart Thomas in men's golf; Jacob Huesman in football; Austin Casassa, Jack Strevell and Drake Watson in men's cross country; Hannah Chamblin, Rebecca Greenwall, Maddison Melchionna, Keeley Stewart and Jessica York in women's cross country and track; Criket Blanco in softball; Sarah Batterton in volleyball; Ansley Chilton in women's basketball; Clare Latham and Molli Miller in soccer; Sydney Patton in women's tennis; and Jake Huffine, John Lampe and Andrew Webb in wrestling.
* Dalton State senior Rachel Rebne and juniors Caroline Griffin and Ashley McDonald received WGCA All-American Scholar designations at the NAIA level. Rebne is a graduate of Heritage High School in Ringgold, and McDonald went to Gordon Lee in Chickamauga.
* Cleveland State basketball player Jaclyn Griffith earned an NJCAA Pinnacle Award for academic excellence with a 4.0 GPA for the 2015-16 school year, and teammate Catherine Davis, softball players Brittany Arnold, Haley Hodgson and Madison Stiner and baseball player Stacy Mahaffey received Superior awards for GPAs of 3.80-3.99. Cougars baseballers Anthony Burnett and Steven Amos and softball players Mikayla Teal and Rachael Goodson achieved Exemplary academic honors with GPAs of 3.60-3.79. Chattanooga State baseball player Nate Schmal was another Exemplary award winner, as was Motlow's John Gilmer from Coffee County by way of Tennessee Temple.
Running
* The Chattanooga Track Club's Market Street Mile is set for Saturday morning downtown. Competitors will be trying in stages for age-group state records in the Road Runners Club of America's official one-mile Tennessee championship race. It begins with the wheelchair division at 7:45 a.m. and 14-under runners at 8 and finishes with the 30-under males at 9:20 a.m. Former UTC runners John Gilpin and Amanda Cotter were the overall winners last year in times of 4:31 and 5:09. Online registration through www.chattanoogatrackclub.org ends at midnight Thursday. On-site registration will begin at 6:30 a.m. Saturday. An untimed fun run and walk called the Ruby Dress Dash is scheduled for 9:45, and best-dressed prizes will be awarded for it. The race benefits the Go Red For Women organization as well as the American Heart Association.