Former Hixson High School golfer Paul Apyan tied for second this past weekend in the Dominican Republic Open on the PGA LatinoAmerica tour. Apyan, who played collegiately at Southern Miss, shot a 282 for four rounds, four shots behind the winner. He is 13th on the tour money list with $26,363 in earnings, while former Soddy-Daisy and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfer Derek Rende is eighth with $32,725. Rende missed the cut this past weekend, but another former Moc, Stephan Jaeger from Baylor School, tied for 20th at 287.
* UTC golfer Wes Gosselin is tied for 18th after the opening round Monday in the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional at Ol' Colony Golf Complex. He's in an eight-way tie at 1-over-par 73, five shots behind three co-leaders. Gosselin eagled the par-5 14th hole.
* UTC women's golf coach Colette Murray announced Monday the addition of Holly Morgan from Sheffield in northern England for the 2016-17 roster. Morgan, from the town of Norton, is the third member of the Mocs' class of 2016 and has won nine tournaments the last three years and represented England schools against Scotland. "Holly is a great addition. I'm excited about her potential," Murray said in a UTC release. "She's kind of on the fringes of the English squad. The English squad is really, really deep. (She is) really solid with a good swing. She's very ambitious and just seems to have the personality to fit with this crew."
* Shea Sylvester, who just completed his junior golf season at Lee University, was among the PING NCAA Division II All-South Region players announced Monday, as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Sylvester previously was named a semifinalist for the Division II Jack Nicklaus Award. He finished second in both the West Florida Argonaut Invitational and the Gulf South Conference tournament.
Auto Racing
* Mark Miles from Flintstone won the Super Pro Class and $2,000 Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with a 4.61-second run on a 4.61 dial in his new dragster powered by a modified 598-cubic-inch Chevrolet engine. He also had the low elapsed time (4.60) and top speed (148.75 mph) of the meet. Eric Mann of Summerville was second in the eliminations with a 5.04 run on a 5.03 dial in his Chevy dragster. Ray Zumstien of Harrison won the Foot Brake class with a 7.72 on a 7.70 in his 1965 Plymouth Valiant; Terry Stringer from Fort Payne was second with a 7.61 on a 7.60 in a 1995 GMC Sonoma. Kat Cross from Cleveland won in Junior Dragster with a 7.91 on a 7.90; Miles Waters of Chattanooga was second.
Track & Field
* Lee University's Harold Smith and Josiah Brooks set school records in the Aggie Last Chance track and field meet Sunday at North Carolina A&T, and Girls Preparatory School graduate Tiana Mills broke her own Carson-Newman record with a fourth-place triple jump of 12.13 meters - the 17th best women's hop, skip and jump in NCAA Division II this season. Mills also had her best long jump of the year, a ninth-place 5.69 meters. The meet gave competitors a chance to record or improve NCAA qualifying times or distances, and Lee's Brooks with a 14.99 triple jump and former Bradley Central standout Smith with a third-place 800 run of 1:51.24 bettered their provisionals. Emmanuel Kipchumba was a new provisional qualifier with a sixth-place 1:52.15 in the 800.
General
* Soon-to-depart Derek Waugh of Dalton State was honored Sunday night as the Southern States Athletic Conference athletic director of the year, and the Roadrunners won the SSAC Commissioner's Cup for men's sports. DSC golfer Levi Nix won the SSAC men's academic award. "I've never been anything of the year," said Waugh, who is leaving next month to head the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. "I did not score one point. I did not recruit one kid. The credit for this award goes to our student-athletes, our coaches and our donors. I was just a mouthpiece for it."