The Chattanooga Lookouts' Zach Granite and Stephen Gonsalves were honored as the Minnesota Twins' minor league player and pitcher of the year for 2016. Granite's honor officially is the Sherry Robertson Award, named for the Twins' first farm director, and Lookouts manager Doug Mientkiewicz won it in 1998, one year after David Ortiz. Granite, a 24-year-old outfielder, spent the entire season with Chattanooga and batted .295 with 30 extra-base hits, 56 stolen bases, 86 runs scored and 52 batted in. He was No. 1 in steals in minor league baseball. Jim Rantz Award winner Gonsalves, 22, was 5-4 with a 2.33 earned run average and 66 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings at Class A Fort Myers (Fla.) but really blossomed after moving up to Class AA in early June. He went 8-1 with a 1.82 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 74 1/3 innings with Chattanooga. The Lookouts' 2017 season will begin April 6 with a five-game home series against Mobile.
Volleyball
- The Bryan College volleyball team is 14-10 after losing two matches Thursday at Life University - 3-2 (25-21, 21-25, 25-16, 23-25, 15-10) to the University of Windsor and 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-15) to Life.
- Covenant lost 3-1 (25-15, 21-25, 25-6, 25-7) in NCAA Division III volleyball Thursday to 25th-ranked Hendrix, which got 15 kills apiece and double-digit digs from M.C. Rogers and Lauren Dwyer. Ginny Moore had 15 kills and 12 digs for Covenant (12-11), but Morgan Opgenorth was next in kills with seven. Schuyler Moore had 24 assists and 10 digs and Jessica Seehorn and Hannah Stewart had 13 and 11 digs in defeat.
Soccer
- Dalton State split a pair of Southern States Athletic Conference overtime games Thursday against visiting Faulkner, the DSC women falling 1-0 but the Roadrunners men winning 2-1 and rising to 10-1-1, 4-1 in the SSAC. The first-year female Roadrunners team is 5-5-1, 1-3.
Softball
- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's annual fall Blue-Gold intrasquad softball game will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Jim Frost Stadium. There is no charge for admission, and the Lady Moc RBI Club will host a free cookout afterward. The club will accept donations to help cover food costs, however.