Jim Reynolds, a witty WGOW personality and the "Voice of the Mocs" for football and men's basketball for 37 years, will be inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame in a banquet ceremony May 6 at the Marriott in Nashville. Reynolds has broadcast about 1,100 basketball and 400 football games since arriving in Chattanooga in 1980, plus making calls as a baseball umpire, and he's already in the UTC Athletics and Greater Chattanooga Sports halls of fame. He will be inducted with 10 other individuals and 77-year-old station WHUB in Cookeville, and tickets can be ordered at tennesseeradiohalloffame.wildapricot.org. "Jim Reynolds is without question one of the best in the business," UTC vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn said in a school release. "He has made championship calls for the Mocs for nearly 40 years, and his contributions to UTC go well beyond broadcasting."
Golf
- Dalton State won the Southern States Athletic Conference women's tournament by seven strokes with a 293 Wednesday at Arrowhead Country Club in Montgomery, Ala. The Roadrunners, ranked fifth in the NAIA, had a 54-hole 899, led by medalist Tia Teiniketo from Baylor School with a 218. Katie Dalton was fourth at 223 with a closing 71, Isabel Rijos tied for seventh at 230, Haejin Choe was 10th at 232 and Caroline Griffin tied for 15th at 236. The SSAC also named Teiniketo its freshman of the year.
Volleyball
- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has completed its signing class for 2017, with coaches announcing Wednesday that defensive specialist/libero Megan Kaufman and right-side hitter Bailey Bennett will join November 2016 signee Maddie Halsey as newcomers this season, according to a UTC news release. Kaufman set multiple program records, including career and single-season digs, as a standout and two-year team captain at Lakota West High School in the Cincinnati area; she also played for Elevation Volleyball Club. Bennett hails from Texas and was the team's kills leader last season at College Station High School, and she played club volleyball for the Woodlands Revolution. Both players were credited with multiple athletic and academic honors.
Softball
- Fourth-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan University won 3-2 over No. 5 seed Point but No. 2 seed Bryan lost 4-0 to No. 7 seed Milligan in first-round games Wednesday at the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball tournament in Kingsport, Tenn. TWU (21-14) scored all of its runs in the third inning. Baylee Sutton hit a two-run double and scored on Alyssa King's single. Rachel Mathews and Hanna Manley combined to pitch a five-hitter. Bryan (23-23) had only two hits.
- Ooltewah High School graduate Allie Jones was one of two Lincoln Memorial softball players named to the 2017 All-South Atlantic Conference first team. Regular-season champion Carson-Newman had the coach of the year in Vickee Kazee-Hollifield and the pitcher and freshman of the year in Lacie Rinus but no other first- or second-team honoree. Jones hit .346 with 45 hits, six home runs, six doubles and 25 RBIs this season, batting .426 in SAC play.
Baseball
- No. 6 Tennessee Wesleyan lost 14-2 to No. 14 Georgia Gwinnett in a matchup of NAIA ranked teams Wednesday in Athens. Collin Ridout and Grant Lang had the RBIs for the Bulldogs (34-16), who totaled only five hits.
- No. 21 Bryan won 12-3 at Bluefield in the rubber game of their AAC series. For the Lions (34-14, 16-8), Trevor Behrent was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs scored, Wade Weinburger was 3-for-4 with three runs and an RBI, Justin Morhardt homered and singled and drove in two runs and Lake Burris was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run.
Tennis
- Lee men's No. 1 player Rhys Milne and women's No. 1 Francesca Tondi made the All-Gulf South Conference second teams announced Wednesday. Tondi was 8-3 in singles this year, and Milne was 7-6 in singles dual matches and 13-6 in doubles with Igor Schattan.