Tennessee-Georgia all-star football set for Saturday and more regional sports news

The 13th annual Tennessee-Georgia All-Star Football Classic matching 2016 graduates of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia high schools is set for Saturday night at Chattanooga Christian School. Game time is 7 p.m. for the event presented by Great Clips, and admission costs $10 with no charge for ages 8-under. Meigs County's Jason Fitzgerald and Coahulla Creek's Chad Barger are the head coaches. Tennessee teams have won nine of the 12 games in the series, including the last four years. The Tennessee-Georgia basketball doubleheader will be held Tuesday at Notre Dame, starting at 6 p.m., and the baseball matchup is set for June 13 at McCallie with softball scheduled for June 21 at Frost Stadium. A soccer doubleheader will be announced by the Chattanooga Football Club.

Baseball

* Second-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan lost 11-7 to No. 4 seed Lewis-Clark State, the host and defending champion, in the late game Tuesday night as the last two teams not to have lost in the 2016 NAIA baseball World Series at Lewiston, Idaho. Lewis-Clark State (51-7), a 17-time NAIA champion, beat top-seeded Faulkner 3-0 after Wesleyan (50-14) defeated No. 3 Bellevue 9-3 on Memorial Day. Bellevue (53-11) and Faulkner (51-14) stayed alive in the double-elimination tournament with 4-1 and 13-6 wins, respectively, earlier Tuesday against Lindsey Wilson and Sterling. The 10-team World Series is down to the top four seeds. Lewis-Clark State stretched a 5-4 lead to 11-4 in the seventh inning, but TWC scored two in the eighth and one in the ninth. Jacob Zanon was 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs for the winners. For the Bulldogs, Chevis Hoover was 3-for-5 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs scored, Wardy Polanco had two hits, an RBI and a run and Sully Rios Reyes was 2-for-4 and scored a run. TWC had 13 hits to 10 for the hosts.

Track & Field

* Bryan College track and cross country runner Tyler Boone has been announced as a College Division Academic All-District 2 performer by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Boone is a business administration major with a 3.54 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. One of the District 1 College Division picks was Mobile junior Joshua Nicholson from Sonoraville High School in Calhoun, Ga. He has a 3.48 GPA.

Golf

* There still are openings for the second annual Prison Prevention Ministries fundraising golf tournament Thursday at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. It has a 1 p.m. shotgun start. All the proceeds go back into the community to focus on at-risk boys and girls, and for golfers the tournament comes with a multitude of bonuses, giveaways and contests for the price of $150 to enter, or $600 per four-person team. Among other things, lunch and dinner will be provided, longtime PGA touring pro Gibby Gilbert II will give a lesson at noon, every participant will get a $100 goody bag, and there will be major prizes for holes-in-one at each of the four par-3s, including a new car at one, $25,000 at another and golf trips at two. There will be payouts for the three closest-to-the-pin shots on each par-3. For more information or to enter, call Mike Robertson at 423-227-1575.

* Dalton State College golfer Katie Dalton from Vidalia will be in the Georgia Women's Match Play tournament running Wednesday through Saturday at Sunset Hills Country Club in Carrollton. The 48 amateur entrants will play a round of stroke play Wednesday to set up the match seedings.

Swimming

* The Chattanooga Area Swim League will begin its 2016 schedule with six dual meets next Monday. The season will continue on Thursdays and Mondays, primarily, with five teams in each of three divisions. The upper Blue Division is comprised of the Cleveland Aqua Tigers, the Dalton Dolphins, the Signal Mountain Green Giants, the Stuart Heights Sharks and the Ooltewah Tidal Waves. In the Red Division are the Big Ridge Raiders, the Calhoun (Ga.) Blue Barracudas, the Country Club Wavemakers, the Fairyland Flash and the Ringgold TigerSharks, while the White Division includes the Cumberland Currents, the Fort Oglethorpe Marlins, the Red Bank Gators, the Ridgeside Dolphins and the Waterdogs.

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