David Zickler followed his 66 on Friday with a 71 on Saturday for a two-shot lead over Walt Moffitt in the Signal Mountain Invitational golf tournament that ends today. Moffitt opened with a 68 and matched Zickler's 71 on Saturday at Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club, and Mikey Feher is third at even-par 142 with Richard Spangler fourth at 144. Matt Hadden and Meechai Padungsiriseth share fifth place at 145. Billy Johnson and John Wise lead the first flight with 155s, and Scott Patton with a 144 leads Richard Keene, Neil Spitalny and Tom Baird by a stroke in the senior flight. Mike Granato leads the Stableford flight with a 157.
* The 68th annual SunTrust State Open golf tournament will run Monday through Thursday at The Club at Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tenn., with Garrett Willis from Loudon defending his championship. Willis also won the State Open in 2000 and 2013 on other courses and has won on the PGA Tour. Steven Fox of Hendersonville, the 2014 champion and 2012 U.S. Amateur winner, heads a group of former and current University of Tennessee at Chattanooga players in the field, including Jonathan Hodge, Matthew Brock, Wes Gosselin, Stuart Thomas and Brooks Thomas. Current or former Chattanooga-area residents among the 144 amateurs and pros participating include Richard Spangler Jr., Mikey Feher, Matt Lowery, Jay Vandeventer, Wil Manuel and Nick Bailes, with a Crossville contingent of Greg Wyatt, Kelvin Burgin, Adam Forgey, Spencer Scarbrough and Logan Stewart. Lee University golfers Taylor Davis of Franklin and Peyton Sliger of Maryville also will be playing.
* The team of Russ Blakely, Harry Hill, Joe Tulley and Joe Rauch closed with a 51 Saturday for a 110 and won the championship flight by four strokes in the two-day Bethel Golf Classic at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. Three teams had 114 totals and Dave Whitfield, Robert Jones, Rob Riddle and Steve Parks took second with Chuck Sanders, Steve Jaworski, Fred Gregg and Chris Chambers third. Gerald Davis, Jimmy Sutter and Ottis Ledbetter won the first flight with a second-day 54 and a 116, and Gary Yerbey, Seth Williams, Don Rutledge and Gene Blair were the second-flight victors at 126.
Softball
* Shaliyah Geathers from Chattanooga had one of the RBIs as the ninth-ranked Tennessee softball team beat Marist 10-2 in the NCAA Knoxville Regional on Saturday, but the Vols got only one hit in a subsequent 4-0 loss to No. 21 Arizona (38-19). The Wildcats earlier beat Ohio State 2-0. Tennessee (42-15) plays again today at noon.
* Kentucky and pitcher Kelsey Nunley from Soddy-Daisy lost 3-0 to Utah in the Lexington Regional after the Wildcats beat Butler 6-1 on Saturday. Against Butler, Nunley pitched only the one inning played Friday. She gave up four hits and two earned runs against Utah, including a home run after a walk in the first inning.
Baseball
* The Tennessee Wesleyan College baseball team has been seeded No. 2 for the Avista-NAIA World Series that starts Friday in Lewiston, Idaho, and the Bulldogs could be playing the other Appalachian Athletic Conference entry in their first game Saturday at 6 p.m. EDT. Tenth seed Point University (34-29), the AAC tournament runner-up to TWC (48-13), takes on No. 7 Sterling (50-14) of Kansas in the tournament's opening game at noon EDT Friday, and that winner will play the Bulldogs the next day. Faulkner (49-13) is the No. 1 seed. The Series includes reigning champion and perennial host Lewis-Clark State, 48-7 and seeded fourth this year, and the nine opening round bracket winners. No. 8 Lindsey Wilson (42-23) meets No. 9 The Master's (41-17) on Friday for the right to face Faulkner on Saturday night, and No. 6 Auburn-Montgomery (45-15) takes on No. 3 Bellevue (51-10) with 17-time champion Lewis-Clark State opening against No. 5 Science & Arts (48-11). TWC won the 2012 championship, Faulkner the 2013 title. Point is in its first World Series after making NAIA history as a No. 5 seed winning a five-team opening round; the Skyhawks won in Savannah, Ga.
Fishing
* The University of North Alabama had the first- and fourth-place boats in the FLW College Fishing Southeastern Conference tournament Saturday on Lake Guntersville, with Columbus State and Mississippi State in between and South Carolina tying for fourth. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Dillon Falardeau and Robbie Moore were 14th with a five-bass limiting totaling 20 pounds, 3 ounces, and two Bryan College teams were 33rd and 34th at 13-14. Lake Blasingame of Killen, Ala., and Triston Crowder of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., got the win for UNA with 27-6.