Xandy Green is the new volleyball coach at Sonoraville High School in Calhoun, Ga.Former Piedmont College setter Xandy Green has been hired to head the powerhouse Sonoraville High School volleyball program, Sonoraville athletic director Brent Mashburn announced Thursday. Green, who was a three-year all-area player at Allatoona High in Acworth and a four-year starter at Piedmont, takes over for Trace Vaughn, who had worked with the Phoenix for eight years and was their head coach the last four. Sonoraville is 251-107 since starting varsity volleyball in 2007, with eight consecutive state-tournament appearances. "Coach Green brings a wealth of playing experience to the position," Mashburn said in a release. "She is extremely personable and will connect well with the girls. I look forward to a long period of success for our volleyball program." Said Green: "I couldn't be more excited to work with a group of girls this great. I have big shoes to fill following Coach Vaughn, but I know my experience combined with passion for the sport will show through my coaching." She is engaged to Kyle Lundberg, who also is joining Sonoraville's coaching staff, according to the release.
Tennis
* The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has selected Sewanee to host the ITA National Indoor women's tournament in March, and it will be held at the Adams Tennis Complex in Murfreesboro. The Sewanee women coached by Conchie Shackelford finished the 2015-16 season 13th in the ITA rankings, and they have participated in the National Indoor the past two years, finishing fourth in 2016. The 2017 tournament, set for March 3-5, also includes reigning national champion Emory (No. 1 in the final rankings), Pomona-Pitzer (No. 6), Chicago (No. 10), Washington-St. Louis (No. 11), Carnegie Mellon (No. 12), Johns Hopkins (No. 14) and Mary Washington (No. 15). The 2017 matchups will be based on the November Oracle/ITA preseason rankings. Each team will play three matches.
Golf
* The Chattanooga Golf & Country Club team of Blakesly Warren, Ryan Kopet, Georgia McCravey and Janet Horton won the A Division of the Chattanooga Women's City Team Play golf tournament Thursday at Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club. Their score in the four-person low-ball event was 67. Valleybrook's Jeanie Reedy, Linda Marcum, Lynn Heck and Leslie Metcalfe won the B Division with a 76, and Signal Mountain's Jean Cates, Sylvia Friedl, Linda Davis and Jean St. Charles won the C Division with an 81 and a three-way sudden-death playoff. Signal Mountain will host the women's individual tournament starting Monday
* Rachael McMahan of Knoxville shot five strokes higher Thursday than the day before at the Course at Sewanee but has a two-stroke lead at 147 over Baili Park of Germantown after two rounds of the 53rd Tennessee Girls' Junior Amateur golf tournament. Malia Stovall of Winchester is third at 150, and Manchester's Ashley Gilliam is 11th at 157 with Signal Mountain's Katherine Holmes tied for 15th at 159, Charleston's Rheagan Hall sharing 19th at 162 and Decatur's Kaitlyn Sneed tied for 23rd at 164.
Football
* Former Brainerd High School and Middle Tennessee State football star Mike Moore died Wednesday and will be buried Monday in Nashville. He was 59. A member of the Greater Chattanooga and MTSU sports halls of fame, Moore was an All-American for the Blue Raiders in 1976 and the Ohio Valley Conference offensive player of the year in 1975. He was a three-time All-OVC first-team selection and ran for 3,678 yards in his MTSU career - second most in school history. The Miami Dolphins picked him in the 12th round of the 1978 NFL draft. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. CDT Sunday at the Terrell Broady Funeral Home in Nashville and for an hour before the noon funeral Monday at the Schrader Lane Church of Christ.
Swimming
* The Chattanooga Area Swim League's Bill Caulkins City Meet will be conducted today and Saturday at the Baylor School pool, with competition beginning at 8:30 a.m. each day and finals sessions set to start at 6 p.m. today and 5:30 Saturday. The Signal Mountain Green Giants wound up the regular-season champions in the Blue Division with the Fairyland Flash first in the Red Division, each with a 5-1 record. The Red Bank Gators went 6-0 in winning the White Division, where the Waterdogs were 5-1.