Eli ChristmanSoddy-Daisy High School graduate Eli Christman won the Junior Men's skeet gold medal Wednesday in the USA Shooting National Championships for Shotgun at the International Shooting Park near Fort Carson, Colorado. After missing the Open finals by one target, he matched the Junior Finals world record by hitting 58 of 60, edging his Team USA teammate and National Junior Olympics champion Nick Moschetti of Colorado. "It was mixed emotions going into this match for me, being that it's my last one as a junior," Christman said in a USA Shooting release. "Meant the world to me to go into it with my World Championship teammates. I battled with Nic at the end of the final at National Junior Olympics, and he got me there, but we help make each other better."
Tennis
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Bogdana Zaporozhets and Polina Goloputova won main-draw singles matches Thursday as the ITA Ohio Valley Regionals began at the Champions Club. Sophomore Zaporozhets won 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 against Priyana Kalita of Miami (Ohio); freshman Goloputova edged Lipscomb's Denise Buberl 7-6 (5), 7-6 (0) in the 128-player field.
* UTC's Niklas Gerdes and Tomas Rodrigues reached the main-draw singles second round at the men's Ohio Valley Regionals in Knoxville, Gerdes 6-3, 6-3 over Louisville's Fredrik Moe and Rodrigues 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 over Jeremy Taylor of Memphis. Seventh-seeded Gerdes and Simon Bustamante won 8-5 with Rodrigues and Kerim Hyatt prevailing 8-6 in doubles.
Golf
* University of Tennessee freshman Malia Stovall from Winchester and Franklin County High School led the women's golf Volunteers to a 35-stroke team victory with her six-stroke individual triumph in the 15-team Starmount Classic last week at Greensboro, North Carolina. The Vols shot 866 to runner-up UNC Greensboro's 901. It was Stovall's second collegiate tournament, and she carded a 5-under-par 211 for 54 holes. Five Vols in all finished in the top 10.
Basketball
* Gulf South Conference coaches predicted Lee University to finish fourth in the women's standings and fifth in the men's league in the 2018-19 season, and junior guard Abby Bertram was picked to the five-player preseason All-GSC women's team. Coach Marty Rowe's Lady Flames went 24-8 last season but lost three players who totaled 1,005 of the team's 2,167 points. Bubba Smith's Flames were 16-12 and return more than 70 percent of their scoring.
Soccer
* After a seventh-minute score by the visiting University of the Cumberlands, the Tennessee Wesleyan men rolled to a 3-1 nonconference win Thursday with goals by Gabriel Gonzalez, Kyle Wynne and Harry Baggaley. George Green and Tom Lake had assists on the last two for the Bulldogs (9-4), who had margins of 18-7 in shots, 8-2 in on-goal attempts and 7-2 in corner kicks over the Patriots (6-3).
Volleyball
* Tennessee Wesleyan endured a tough 3-2 Appalachian Athletic Conference loss Thursday at Union College by the set scores of 19-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-16, 15-13. Miyah Woodard had 11 kills and Sydney Ritten had 10 plus 10 digs for TWU (12-14, 8-5), while Gabi Catt had 22 assists and 12 digs, Marjorie Smith eight kills, Sovanna Ramirez 20 digs and Haley Amet 15 digs.
* Cleveland State dropped to 8-12 with a 3-0 loss (25-14, 25-20, 25-13) Thursday to Catawba Valley (18-7).
Football
* Sewanee is back home this Saturday, hosting Birmingham-Southern in a Southern Association game starting at 7 p.m. EDT. The visiting Panthers are 3-2 overall, 1-2 in SAA play, while the Tigers are 3-3, 2-2. Birmingham-Southern leads the series 8-4 but lost 34-13 in last year's meeting. Sewanee lost last week at undefeated Berry; the Panthers beat Hendrix 57-41 in a game that included 634 yards of offense for the winners and 569 for the losers.