The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf team opens 2016-17 play today in the Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate tournament in Verona, N.Y. Reigning Tennessee Amateur champion Wes Gosselin led the Mocs' in-team qualifying with a minus-13 over four area courses, and Andrew Weathers, Brooks Thomas, Lake Johnson and junior college All-American Phillip Hickam will join him in the Mocs' lineup with Canadian Etienne Brault playing as an individual. "We're definitely ready. I know I am," coach Mark Guhne said in a UTC release. "The guys worked extremely hard to get here."
* The City Prep golf tournament will be held Wednesday at The Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. Forty-nine boys and 26 girls from Chattanooga-area high schools will compete for individual titles, and team championships will be awarded, too. Baylor swept all four crowns last year. "We wanted to have something to try to showcase the best players in the Chattanooga area," said Notre Dame's Jeff Fisher, this year's tournament director and a 25-year coaching veteran who noted that the competition was around before his coaching career began. "That's what we've tried to do. We attempted at one time to bring in players from outside the area, but always the spirit of the thing was to show off the best players in the Chattanooga area." The boys will tee off first. The first threesome is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. The last boys' group is set to begin at 11:25. The first girls' threesome is slated to tee off at 11:34 and the last at 12:46 p.m.
Soccer
* Already with a 9-0 win in Lee University's Olive Garden Invitational men's soccer tournament, 25th-ranked Lynn beat Lee 6-0 on Saturday as Dominic Docherty had a goal and two assists and Alun Webb scored two late goals. The Florida team scored twice in the first 13:08 and made it 3-0 early in the second half but got the last three scores in the 81st to 85th minutes. Lynn outshot the Flames (1-1) 23-6, and Tristen Putnam had seven saves in defeat.
* Sewanee went to 2-0 in women's soccer for the season with a come-from-behind 2-1 win Saturday over Roanoke College in the Shellenberger Classic at Lynchburg, Va. That gave the Tigers 11 regular-season wins in a row. Nikki Johnston netted a rebound off the crossbar in the first half and Shelby Meckstroth scored off a loose ball in the 79th minute. Samantha Bourgeois made six saves.
* Katherine Steiner scored two goals as Davenport beat the Bryan College women's soccer team 3-0 on Saturday, dropping the Lady Lions to 2-1. The Michigan team (3-0-1) had a 16-6 advantage in shots.
* Wilmington (Ohio) University scored a goal in each half and beat visiting Covenant 2-0 in men's soccer Saturday. After the visiting Scots had a 4-3 edge in shots in the first 45 minutes, the hosts outshot them 11-4 in the second half, when Covenant's Paul Lemay made six saves.
Running
* Paul Stuart and Brennan Huber finished third and fifth individually in 15:28.0 and 15:37.4 for five kilometers to lead the UTC men's cross country runners to third place out of seven teams Saturday morning in the Belmont Opener at Percy Warner Park in Nashville. Host Belmont won with 26 points, and Lipscomb was second with 47. UTC had 83, beating Vanderbilt by 16. UTC's Nathan Watson was 19th with John Payne 24th. UTC will host the men's and women's PowerAde Invitational this Friday on the Moccasin Bend course, starting at 5:45 p.m.
* The Lee University men's cross country runners begin the 2016 season as the 24th-ranked team in NCAA Division II, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. With its first D-II poll spot ever, Lee is the highest ranked team in the South Region, with Alabama-Huntsville second. Lee is third in the region women's rankings, behind Tampa at Saint Leo. The Lee teams begin their seasons next Saturday at Furman University.
Field Hockey
* Junior Virginia Barry scored three first-half goals to lead the Sewanee field hockey team to a season-opening 4-3 win Saturday over Wooster at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Barry's first two scores came 34 seconds and 4:47 into the match, from assists by Ceara Caffrey and Sarah Barry, and Caffrey scored in between. Virginia Barry's final goal came off a corner by Carrie Anderson. Another Barry, Maeven, scored twice for Wooster.
General
* The Chattanooga Quarterback Club will not meet on Monday, Labor Day. The next noon luncheon meeting will be Sept. 12 at Finley Stadium with UTC vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn as the guest speaker. The public is welcome. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without.