NASCAR driver Ty Dillon, fresh off a 26th-place finish in the Xfinity Series Firecracker 250 this past Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, made another visit Monday to Boyd's Speedway in Ringgold, Ga., and he and his high-flying brother Austin Dillon will be back at the track on July 28. Austin won the Xfinity race at Daytona, then made headlines of another sort in the Sprint Cup race - which ended early Monday morning - when his car flew into the catchfence and catapulted back onto the track. Somehow, he avoided serious injury. The Dillon brothers drew a big crowd to Boyd's in an appearance last year, and they will take lucky fans for rides around the one-third-mile dirt oval when they return for the Ray Cook Summer Nationals at the end of this month. Ty was at Boyd's this week for some practice in his Team Dillon Warrior race car, and then he and Team Dillon racing instructor and Boyd's co-owner Dale McDowell went on to Illinois and Kentucky. Featured at Boyd's this Friday night will be the United Crate Racing Alliance Crate Late Models in a 40-lap race for $2,500, plus A and B Hobby, Pony and Road Warriors competition. The pit gates will open at 4 p.m., the grandstands at 5, and racing should begin at 7.
' Aubrey Black II, from Lookout Mountain, Ga., will compete in the Lucas Oil Southern States Midget Series on Saturday at south Georgia's Albany Motor Speedway. "I've been racing winged mini Sprint cars for several years," Black said in a release. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to compete in a non-wing Midget car for the first time. A Midget car is a step up, with a larger chassis and more powerful engine. These cares have impressive power-to-weight ratios and, being non-wing, promise to be a challenge."
Golf
' Three University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student-athletes made the list of Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars. The academic achievements of Isabella Loza, Emily McLennan and Megan Woods pushed the Mocs' all-time total of such honors to 14; Lozan and McLennan, who will be seniors this year, are second-time winners and Woods, who will be a sophomore, is a first-timer. "It's a part of the culture of the program," UTC coach Colette Murray said in a release. "We want to excel in every area and take great pride in our academic accomplishments. Through all of our championship seasons, we also posed one of the top team (grade-point averages) in the nation." A total of 758 women's golfers were selected nationally. Four honorees each from Lee University and Dalton State College were listed in Wednesday's newspaper.
' Covington's Aubree Jones added six strokes to her first-round total but remains the leader of the 15-18 division at the Tennessee Girls' Junior Amateur Championship after shooting a 75 at Foxland Harbor Golf and Country Club in Gallatin. Jones' two-day total of 144 has her two shots ahead of Mariah Smith and three shots up on Hanley Long, both from Clarksville. Knoxville's Alyssa Montogmery is fourth at 150, one stroke ahead of three tied for fifth, a group that includes McMinville's Hannah Powell (who shot a 77 Wednesday) and Winchester's Malia Stovall (who shot a 74 Wednesday). Signal Mountain's Katherine Holmes is in a trio tied for 10th at 154 - a group that includes Manchester's Savannah Quick, who has recorded consecutive 77s - after shooting a 79 Wednesday. Manchester's Ashley Gilliam is the only other golfer from the area in the top 15 - she's tied for 13th after shooting a 79 for a two-day total of 155. In the 10-14 division, Crossville's Kelsee Neely is 12th at 87-86 - 173 and Cleveland's Kyndall Shamblin is one spot behind at 86-90 - 176.