Ron's Super Cars owner Ron Lane of Hixson won the $2,500 top Pro Class prize Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with a 4.67-second run on a 4.66 dial in his 2017 Miller dragster powered by a 650 Chevrolet engine. The class included 66 cars and seven rounds of racing, and Mike Clayton, Matt Grayson and Dave Schmidt were second through fourth. Josh Ayers was the Foot Brake victor in a 1989 Pontiac Firebird, with Larry Sparks of Maryville second. Kat Cross of Cleveland was the Junior Dragster winner with Branson Jones of Rainsville, Ala., second, and Brian Wilson of Tallapoosa, Ga., and Allen Hitt of Cartersville were first and second in the 18-entry motorcycle class. Also winning were Ron Lee in Nostalgia Dragster, Ron Tefertillen in Nostalgia Superstock and Russ Costa of Piedmont, S.C., in Nostalgia Gasser. Bil Clanton had the meet's low elapsed time (4.35) and top speed (138.25 mph) in his "Big Money" 1940 Willis.
Softball
* Pensacola State (junior) College pitcher Erika Greek has signed scholarship papers to join the Lee University softball team. The 5-foot-11 Greek was first-team all-state for Thomas County High School in Thomasville, Ga., with a GHSA-record 658 career strikeouts, and was first-team all-conference as well as all-academic for PSC. She also had interest from West Florida, Valdosta State and Shorter in Lee's conference plus Saint Leo, Campbell and NCAA Division I member Kennesaw State. "I really like the coaching staff and the beautiful campus," Greek said in a Lee release. "It felt like home to me and somewhere I could be successful." Lady Flames coach Emily Russell said Greek "is a talented pitcher that we think will be very successful in our conference. We feel as do many coaches in softball that there is no more having just two pitchers as a staff. It is moving more like baseball in having a staff approach. Erika is a hard worker (with) a variety of tools as a pitcher."
Golf
* Blakesly Warren of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee was next behind the two alternates in the U.S. Women's Open sectional qualifier Monday at The Legends at Chateau at Elan at Braselton, Ga. The former Baylor School standout shot 150 (77-73) for the 36 holes, two strokes behind Elsa Moberly of Somerset, Ky., and Gina Kim of Chapel Hill, N.C. Jane Park of Woodstock, Ga., was the medalist at 133, and Rachel Heck of Memphis got the other spot in the Women's Open with a 141.
Tennis
* Junior Matt Harvie, the only Covenant College men's tennis player to be regionally ranked in the program's NCAA history, was 22nd in the final Division III Atlantic South listing of 2016-17. He was one of four USA South players ranked in the final poll.