Chris Ochieng scored two goals as the Chattanooga Football Club won 3-2 over the Myrtle Beach Mutiny in the National Premier Soccer League's South Region championship match Saturday night in South Carolina. That returns Chattanooga FC (16-1-2) to the national semifinals, two wins away from its first NPSL title. Chattanooga will host a match this coming Saturday night at Finley Stadium against the Indiana Fire or the winner of the West Regional final between the Sacramento Gold and the CD Aguiluchos USA. Ochieng scored in the first half and increased the margin to 3-0 in the 79th minute, following a goal by Leo De Smedt. The Mutiny scored in the 81st and 84th minutes to close the deficit to a goal, but CFC held on for the win.
* Bryan College has announced its men's soccer schedule for 2015, and that starts with home matches on Aug. 25 against Hiwassee and Sept. 1 against St. Catharine. Coach Drew Courtney's Lions will play five of their next six away from Dayton, interrupted by a Sept. 10 visit from Martin Methodist, but will conclude September and begin October with a string of home games against St. Andrews, Reinhardt, Bluefield, Freed-Hardeman and Georgia Gwinnett. They will conclude their home regular season on Oct. 21 and 27 against Union College and Truett-McConnell. Bryan suffered big graduation losses from a 10-7-2 side and has only two seniors - defender Miles Christian from Bradley Central High School and forward Joel Glover from Norwich, England - two juniors and three sophomores to go with 14 newcomers. "Because we have so many new players on the roster, we will have to work hard at learning tendencies and playing together," Courtney said in a recent release. "I am confident in the leadership of our returners to help the transition for the new players."
Running
* Just as in the Market Street Mile five weeks earlier, John Gilpin finished first with Joseph Goetz second Saturday morning in the Scenic City Scorcher 2-mile road race on the North Shore, and Lisa Logan again was the female masters winner. Gilpin, who completed his University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running career this spring, completed the course in 9 minutes, 51.65 seconds. Goetz finished in 10:10.16, and Jack McGinness was third in 10:12.71, all three leaders bettering the previous state record set by Knoxville's Jason Altman in April 2014. Fourteen-year-old Kathryn Vradenburgh was the first female and 21st overall Saturday in 12:11.29, and Jennifer Curtis was 28th as the women's runner-up in 12:44.73. Ryan Shrum and Tim Ensign were seventh and eighth and the men's masters and grand masters winners, and Corinne Henderson was the female grand masters victor. Curt Zacharias and Connie Regal took senior grand masters honors. Since Tennessee two-mile age-group records were not kept until last year, many were broken Saturday, including Gilpin by 21 seconds for the overall standard and Vradenburgh by more than 26 minutes for 14-year-old girls. She missed the overall female record by just over 15 seconds.
* The third of four Ironman training events for the 12 athletes on Emily's Power for a Cure team will be held today in the Greyhawk Trails neighborhood on Signal Mountain, starting at 2:30 p.m. This one is a running session in which Andy Sweet, a HUB Endurance trainer, will send the team members through a series of quarter-mile circuits through the neighborhood. Hosted by Pratt Home Builders, the event is specifically a preparation for the Sept. 27 Chattanooga Ironman, and community support is encouraged. Each of the Emily's team members is paired with a child battling cancer, and each is trying to raise $1,900 toward neuroblastoma research. As part of the fundraising effort, snacks and pink bandanas will be available for purchase today.
Golf
* Tim Jackson of Germantown, Tenn., a member of The Honors Course and the 2014 Tennessee Golf Association amateur and senior amateur player of the year, won the 2015 Senior Match Play Championship on Saturday at The Grove in College Grove with a 3 and 2 semifinal win over Buzz Fly of Memphis and a 5 and 4 victory over Doug Harris of Franklin. Brandon Caballero from Brentwood repeated as state match play champion by edging UT-Martin teammate Hunter Richardson in 19 holes and pulling away on the back nine of the final to defeat Lipscomb golfer Hunter Howell of Franklin 5 and 4.