Hixson resident Ron Lane won $7,500 for a race victory Saturday night at Huntsville (Ala.) Dragway. Lane, who owns Ron's Classic Cars in Soddy-Daisy, prevailed among 345 entries in the annual event with a 4.67-second burst on a 4.67 dial, with a .001 reaction time.
Golf
* Dalton State sophomore S.M. Lee, the reigning NAIA golfer of the year, is the Southern States Athletic Conference men's golfer of the month for October. As the Roadrunners finished second and first in their two tournaments last month, Lee was third and first individually. He is 8-2 this semester against other top-25 ranked NAIA golfers.
Soccer
* Sewanee's Mary "Sissy" Frank was voted this year to the All-Southern Athletic Association women's soccer first team for the fourth time, and defender Erin Gill became a three-time All-SAA honoree as a second-team selection. Baylor School alumnus Kyle Johnston was a second-team choice from the Sewanee men, whose Johnny McNeill, Rhodes Hall, Bobby Zolper and Alpo Sipila received honorable mention. Frank had a team-high six goals and three assists this season and 12 goals in her Tigers career, while Gill has seven career goals and eight assists; she moved to the backfield this year. Johnston, a junior earning All-SAA recognition for the third time, had a career-high eight goals in 2017.
* Gulf South tournament champion Lee University (16-4) is the third seed in the South Region and will play Florida Tech (9-7-3) at 1 p.m. Friday at Nova Southeastern in Fort Lauderdale in the NCAA Division II women's soccer tournament. The winner will play Nova (12-4-1) on Sunday.
* The NAIA's 20th-ranked Dalton State men will face No. 9 Mobile in an SSAC tournament semifinal at 8:30 p.m. EST Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala., after slipping past Martin Methodist on penalty kicks (6-5) this past weekend at home. Dalton State (12-3-2) trailed 2-0 barely 16 minutes into that game but got second-half goals by Jose Villalobos and Jorge Hurtado from assists by Santiago Moore to send it to overtime. Both teams netted their first five PKs in the shootout, but goalkeeper Samuel Fraire stopped the visitors' sixth try and Isael Guitierrez made another for the Roadrunners, who had a 16-7 shots advantage, an 11-5 on-goal margin and a 10-2 corner-kicks gap.
Field Hockey
* Sewanee senior midfielder Katie Wilson made the first team and junior defender Nikki Ereli and sophomores Jo Jo Young and Ceara Caffrey were second-team picks on the 2017 All-SAA field hockey team. Wilson had four goals and three assists this season and 14 and nine for her career and already had been chosen for the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Senior Game. Caffrey had 13 goals and two assists this season, when Ereli had five defensive saves and Young had a goal and three assists.
Volleyball
* USA South tournament champion Covenant College will play Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Atlanta against Birmingham-Southern in the NCAA Division III volleyball tournament. It's the regional hosted by Emory, and the Covenant/BSC winner will play Friday at 4:30 p.m. against Berry or Hannover. Birmingham-Southern (20-8) beat Covenant (24-7) 3-1 on Sept. 2 in Birmingham, but since a Sept. 28 loss at Emory the Lady Scots have won 16 matches in a row. On Saturday they won at Averett, which had beat them 3-1 on Sept. 15.
Basketball
* The Cleveland State men's basketball team lost 86-82 to South Georgia Technical College and won 95-60 over Bristol Prep Academy this past weekend at the Roane State Classic. Tevin Olison scored 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting for the Cougars (2-1) in the close loss and 16 points with 10 rebounds in the win, when Victor Curry had 26 points and 11 rebounds after contributing 16 points and 12 rebounds the night before. Darius Turman had 14 points and seven rebounds and Basit Seidu added 12 points and 10 rebounds against Bristol Prep. The Cleveland State teams open TCCAA play Friday evening at Dyersburg State.