Monday is the deadline for entering the City Championships tennis tournament scheduled for Thursday through Sunday at Manker Patten. Tournament officials plan to pay out $3,700 in prize money, including $1,000 each to the men's and women's singles winners and $500 apiece to their runners-up. The men's and women's open doubles champions are due to get $250 per team, and the second-place teams will receive $100. The singles and doubles open categories, including mixed doubles, are for all ages, and for ages 18-older there also are 7.0 and 8.0 combo doubles divisions and 7.5 and lower mixed-doubles divisions. Players can enter up to three events at $43.50 for singles and $28 each for doubles. The accompanying festivities include a Friday night players dinner catered by 1885 Grill. All players must be USTA members, and registration is done through the USTA website with 700145318 as the tournament I.D. number. For more information contact Brandon Deering at brandondeering@gmail.com or 865-387-8666.
* Baylor's Brandon Kali in Division II-AA singles and Hunter Smith and Benjamin Taverne in doubles were among the Tennessee Sports Writers Association boys' tennis all-state selections for 2018, and Baylor also was represented by Anna Hawkins in singles and Lauren Carelli/Lilly Mooney and Presley Thomas/Landie McBrayer in doubles as all-state girls. Girls Preparatory School's Maddox Bandy and McCallie's Hank Leathers also were all-state in Division II-AA. In Division I, Signal Mountain had multiple Small Division all-state selections to go with Arts & Sciences' Sunshine Finnell: Grace Williams and Sarah Kate Bailey in girls' doubles, Gabe Williams in boys' singles and Grant Williams and Thomas Thelen in doubles.
Golf
* Two-time champion (2003, 2011) David Noll Jr. of Dalton was tied for 19th at 212 going into the final round today of the 97th Georgia Amateur golf tournament at Athens Country Club. He shot a 73 on Saturday after his second-round 67 got him in the top 10. Lee University golfer Scott Odell from Claxton was tied for 23rd at 214, and Beck Burnette from Blairsville was at 216. Dalton's Vance Embry was at 220. Georgia Southern University player Brett Barron from Suwanee took a three-shot lead at 203 with a 66. Savannah's Jack Hall and Duluth's Preston Topper were at 206.
* Defending champion Colette Murray, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's golf coach, and 18 challengers in the open division plus former senior winner Darlene Werhnyak and 16 others in the senior division will begin play at 9 a.m. Monday in the 2018 Chattanooga Women's City Championship at WindStone. They will use a shotgun start all three days in open play and both days (Monday and Wednesday) in the senior competition.